Words: Alison Potter, Emily Solan, Howard Gorman, Rajan Lakhani, Raman K, Saam Das, and Simon Opie 2012. The year that guitar music died. The year that hip hop died. The year that dubstep died. No. None of these things happened. 2012 was as healthy a year for music as any. At FADED GLAMOUR , we picked some of our favourite albums of 2012 and put them together in a list of 25 below. Pop, R&B, hip hop and yes, even guitar music [...]
On October 20th some of the most exciting UK acts descend on Oxford for the inaugural Gathering Festival, headlined by Dry The River and with a bill including Lucy Rose, Bastille, Liars, Spector, Clock Opera, Fossil Collective, The Staves & Karima Francis. To celebrate, we've launched our very own Gathering Festival Spotify playlist, jammed packed with the best tracks from all of the above and much more. Similarly to Dot To Dot, Gathering Festival is a city-wide festival with six different venues opening its doors to over 30 acts. SUBSCRIBE TO OUR [...]
Secluded for the better part of the last year, the London quintet, Zulu Winter , wrote and recorded their debut album, with little to no wrap up, outside two tremendously popular singles , “Never Leave” and “Let’s Move Back to Front” , followed by “We Should Be Swimming” . They received the typical accolades that incur dozens of comparisons to contemporaries, some more warranted than others. With a list of influences and references as distinct as Armenian director Sergei Parajanov and Alice Coltrane, it’s hard to know what to [...]
Clock Opera - Ways To Forget By Paul Faller Guy Connelly, the man behind Clock Opera , has already received acclaim for his work as a remixer, reworking the likes of Everything Everything, Metronomy, and Feist to great effect. But with Ways To Forget he's no longer striking out alone, having expanded the project into a four-piece band. The origins of Clock Opera as a one-man project feel pretty evident on the likes of 'A Piece Of String' and 'Fail Better', which feel like they [...]
Clock Opera have appeared from relative obscurity, to produce their debut album ‘Ways To Forget,’ a beautifully crafted record. I think – no, I know - that people are going to enjoy it. From first listen, Clock Opera most definitely occupy that most odious of genres for me, synthy, indie-poppy, squealy, joyous rubbish. Luckily for them and me, they occupy it, and then completely make it their own. They go from piano solos in songs like ‘Belongings’, sounding like they could have been lifted straight from Elbow ’s ‘The Seldom Seen Kid’, [...]
Clock Opera - 'Ways To Forget' (UK Release: 23 April '12) // Words: Saam Das In November 2009, I described Guy Connelly as potentially the next Tom Vek . Over the next few years, he broadened and honed his skills with three other fine musicians, including producing the odd jaw-dropping remix in his spare time. The wait is finally over and Clock Opera 's 'Ways To Forget' is one of the finest debuts of the year thus [...]
we been hailing about Clock Opera since their day one now here is the huge milestone, their debut LP Ways To Forget will be out on April 23rd via Moshi Moshi
Clock Opera is finally set to unleash their cracking debut album ' Ways to Forget ' on April 16th via Moshi Moshi and the collective have released a new clip for a track off the lp. Watch the Graham Rawle inspired 'Man Made' video above.
Ya ha pasado un año de la salida de " The English Riviera " y Metronomy junto a su sello Because Music y Big Beat siguen promocionando el tal idolatrado álbum. Tras multitud de remixes y maxis llega " The English Riviera (Unreleased Remixes) ", fantástisco compilado formado por 13 inéditos y deliciosos remixes para todos los gustos creados por artistas de la talla de los [...]
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