By Rob Aldam March 05, 2013 Until recently, a veil of mystery has enshrouded the duo behind the minimalist soul and R&B yearnings of Rhye , but one listen leaves you in no doubt whatsoever as to the theme coursing through every minute of their debut album. Woman is a love letter, a late night lament, and expression of joy and regret, a lazy day in bed with the one you love. Indeed, love oozes through each pore and sinew of each of the ten tracks which form [...]
By Stef Siepel April 05, 2013 The Weekly Froth! A weekly take on six tracks, most of which have recently popped up somewhere in the blogosphere. Bit of a mixed bag with a slight leaning towards house, disco, and remixes, but generally just anything that for some reason tickled the writer’s fancy. Track of the week: ‘International’ (Brother J Disco Dub) (Superbreak) I’m kind of hesitant about something being called a Disco Dub, because for me [...]
By Alex Ward April 04, 2013 If we could be heroes just for one day, we would all head to the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. In David Bowie is , the V & A has created a startling exhibition in which all aspects of David Bowie ’s life are on display. After the man in question surprising us all by releasing a new album, The Next Day , in March, the exhibition sums up our collective love for David Bowie through a fascinating collection [...]
By Julia Stryj April 04, 2013 Seeing as we were on the ball enough to have a well handled camera with us on March 29 it's only fair that you get to see what you missed as Die!Die!Die! , United Fruit and Black International did their best to burst eardrums. [...]
By Danielle Gibson April 04, 2013 Irish band Kodaline have been revealed as the special guest’s for today’s (Thursday April 4) launch of season twelve of the Station Sessions in St Pancras International, London. Their most recent single ‘High Hopes’ reached number 16 in the UK charts and they will be will be performing an exclusive free acoustic set from 6.30-7pm ahead of their sold out gig at the Scala. They will be performing material from their anticipated debut album In a Perfect World which is [...]
By Thomas Murphy April 04, 2013 Out of the growing music scene in Leeds, a new era is being born. The electronic scene is developing through house and its variations. This in turn has given way to new clubs; Canal Mills, Mint Warehouse, and The Garage. Such venues have raised the profile of Leeds, allowing it to compete with its party rival down the M62, Manchester, and even the musical powerhouse that is London. But this growing culture has created another emerging phenomenon; the house party. [...]
By Carris Boast April 03, 2013 Afraid of Heights is the newest album from beach-grunge, surf-pop, 90s rock-inspired Californian band Wavves. Led by singer Nathan Williams , this new album takes a darker approach to their original grunge style, and brings it into a whole new dimension, where themes of death and loneliness can be seen through ominous layers of guitars and drums where dirt and grit gather and Wavves' lyrical, repetitive, nature makes its home. [...]
By Paul Stephen Gettings April 03, 2013 Birmingham's Peace have been slowly gathering a great deal of buzz over the last few years. The preeminent kings of the city's thriving music scene, the band's distinctive brand of guitar noise (a bit britpop, a bit shoegaze, a bit grunge, a bit awesome) has clearly been turning heads in high places; In Love , their debut album, comes to us courtesy of label giants Sony Entertainment. Although opening track 'Higher Than The Sun' commits the cardinal sin [...]
By Tom Fake April 03, 2013 The Hot Five – My views on five tracks that have attracted my interest in any given week, usually with an older track thrown in the mix for something a bit different. Tracks usually concentrate on guitar-based releases, but really focusing on anything and everything that comes to my attention. Track Of The Week : Kodaline – ‘High Hopes’ I get the feeling that I’m little behind the times with this track. Nevertheless it’s become my track of the [...]
By Hayley Scott April 02, 2013 Just as the opening ominous swell of primitive, synthetic drum beats hurl ‘Searching for Mr. Right’ deeper into obscurity, you know there’s something eerily perpetual about Colossal Youth . Propulsive guitar rhythms fill unoccupied spaces in short, sharp bursts; resonant bass lines counteract Alison Statton’s saccharine vocal tones that perfectly suit the vernal subject matter that consumes it, and as ‘The Taxi’ shortly follows, with its ‘802s RPG-esque synth only slightly revealing its age, it still doesn't sound out of place today. But its timeless quality is one that pertains [...]
By Matt Jones April 02, 2013 I don’t know when or where I first heard of Trwbador , but wherever they are mentioned, their name seems to be already recognised, if not yet fully appreciated. Like the troubadours from which they take their nominal inspiration, word about the Welsh girl-boy duo seems to have travelled far and wide but stayed long enough in each place to make just enough of an impression. Indeed, it is hardly necessary that they stick around long to have an impact, but the duo’s debut album [...]
By Kenny McMurtrie April 02, 2013 From Dunedin (NZ) to Dunedin (UK), as was, Die!Die!Die! hit town to promote new album Harmony & bring it home to me that now's maybe the time to invest in some earplugs for gigs. This was a damn loud show. They perpetrate this sonic terrorism at breakneck speed, battering out such selections as 'Blinding' (from the Promises Promises album of 2007) with barely a gap for any light to get in between one song [...]
By Kenny McMurtrie April 01, 2013 Album number six from British Sea Power finds them referencing Ray Bradbury once more with the title (an act already committed by Die Krupps ) so you get the idea that there's the usual dystopian fare in prospect. In the event though things do not go quite that way. A celebration of the best aspects of the human race and its capacities is what we get in the opening title track of the album (the sort of [...]
By Rob Barker April 01, 2013 It’s been two years since the release of Red Barked Tree , and Wire are back with the aptly named Change Becomes Us and it’s really pretty good. For the uninitiated, Wire formed back in 1976 during the first wave of punk, a style they took on board with their widely acclaimed 1977 debut Pink Flag, before adding their own abrasive, atmospheric sound, with some synths and guitar effects thrown in for good measure. Their idiosyncratic edge would eventually establish a singular take [...]
By Peri Daley April 01, 2013 At times we feel like we’re in the 80s then all of a sudden a guitar string is strummed and we feel as though we’re in the 60s. Psychic Ills are making us feel this confused with their fourth record, One Track Mind. Coming away from their debut Dins , they spent a whole decade approaching different sounds. They progressed into all-night full-band exploration in a neighbourhood where noise wasn’t a problem. Although some listeners may have preferred the [...]
By Ben Gibson March 29, 2013 For many, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club are perhaps the greatest living example of what I would call a “singles” band. While writing good pop songs that urge you to turn up your radio, they never seem to have enough variation in their tracks to make listening to a whole album worthwhile. Considering we've now had six albums worth of predictable garage rock from the trio, in order to prove their longevity Specter At The Feast really needs to be something special. More importantly, it needs [...]
By Danielle Gibson March 29, 2013 10 UK headline tour dates have been announced by World Party for this April. A side project of ex- Waterboys ' founder Karl Wallinger , he will be joined by the fantastic David Duffy (on violin and mandolin) and John Turnbull (electric guitar) for the first World Party tour in twelve years. They are set to tour the UK in cities like London, Glasgow, Cardiff, Birmingham and many more. Last year World Party gave us Arkeology , an amazing 5 CD collection [...]
By Stef Siepel March 29, 2013 The Weekly Froth! A weekly take on six tracks, most of which have recently popped up somewhere in the blogosphere. Bit of a mixed bag with a slight leaning towards house, disco, and remixes, but generally just anything that for some reason tickled the writer’s fancy. Track of the week: ‘You Are My Destiny’ by The Juan MacLean Mind you, this isn’t the full track, but it’s so good to see The Juan MacLean back in [...]
By Danielle Gibson March 28, 2013 Who else misses the excitement and buzz as a kid of Easter egg hunting? We certainly do but wouldn’t it be weird to be seen hunting eggs at your age? Maybe, but don’t let that stop you as you have a chance to be involved with a virtual one. With her debut album The Disappearance of the Girl due to be realised very soon, Philidel will be running a Virtual Easter Egg Hunt live from her home tomorrow (Friday 29 April). You guys are invited online to view her [...]
By Robert Freeman March 28, 2013 In the terrifying collision of man and machine that is twenty-first century electronic music, ‘performers’ are disappearing behind the cut and paste, loops and samples. Emphasis has been put on making the machines sing ,whilst faces behind them exist only as an extension of the instrument. Nowhere is this more prevalent than in dance music, and nowhere is dance music more prevalent than Berlin. Renowned for an ability to get a song out of a couple of spoons, vocals on Brandt [...]
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