Blog: i'm waking up to...

the year started with the most promising of the recent lot of noisepopsters, the pains of being pure at heart, putting out their first album. closer to the mid year, we have japandroids reminding us that good ol' noise is here to stay for a while with a first release of their own. if the former debutantes heralded a what may be termed a post-c86 movement, the latter is most aptly post-nothing , with its bubbling stew of garage punk too restless to stand posing and having too much fun to worry about anything else. in "young [...]

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