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Papercuts man no good at taking a shredding
“You can have what you want,” Papercuts’ Jason Quever sings on the title track of his third album. Only what he means is, you can’t. “You grow up hearing that you can have whatever you want, but there are so few people who are actually at peace,” the San Franciscan explains over his morning coffee. “I think it’s just the limitations of humanity: why happiness is so elusive, when it seems so simple.”
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Once bitten Camera Obscura not twice shy
Labels. There’s a weird mix of caustic self-deprecation and wounded pride among the six members of Glasgow’s Camera Obscura, and one begins to suppose much of it has to do with labels. Like the one imposed by the British press around the time of 2006’s breakthrough LP Let’s Get Out Of This Country, about the band staking its claim as the new Belle & Sebastian.
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Prince Zimboo providing a royal road to learning with track about fish making splish splish
Ever wondered why the sea’s salty? It’s because the octopus is getting naughty. So says Prince Zimboo on his brilliant signature track, ‘To The Rescue’. He doesn’t drink water because fish have sex in it and he’s always grinning. Sound unusual? You should see him at a funeral. He’s already saved Bobby from Whitney and now he’s going to save you. If you ignore the message in his song, you are like “masturbating fish”. Heh.
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On a Wing and a Prayer
Seattle’s Holy Ghost Revival not finding much enlightenment in London, a city too keen on keeping a ghoul head
Chasing images not rainbows ensuring Juana Molina is everything but a one day wonder
For many musicians the art of crafting a song is all about telling a story or evoking an emotion, but for Juana Molina it’s all about chasing an image and describing it in sound. The Argentinean singer describes the process of music-making as a visual kiss chase with a random abstract picture that might pop into her mind when she hears a note or a chord, and it’s been a fruitful one that has produced her third album, Un Dia [One Day].
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No panic stations for Underground Railroad, even when assaulted with sticks and stones
It may be a well-worn cliché, but Underground Railroad, with their youth, good looks and unfathomable ability, are the epitome of French cool. What’s unusual about them is that they’re noisy as hell, and raucousness is not usually associated with Parisian chic. The band, from the southern suburbs of the capital, began life playing around the city, but moved to the UK in search of fame, fortune and the trappings of London’s brilliant parade, and with startling rapidity landed themselves a deal with One Little Indian. They profess love for groups like Daft Punk and Justice, but it was predominantly American guitar/noise bands (Sonic Youth are their most recognisable influence) that drove them to form a band and sing not in their native tongue, but in English.
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Life in Dr Dog yet as they learn old tricks, tempt fate
Scott McMicken, aka ‘Taxi’ to his bandmates and fans, is a complex individual. He spends a lot of time thinking. For 25 minutes of our interview he discusses the message of Dr Dog’s last album, which goes by the pregnant title of Fate. In the (infuriatingly) abstract terms of a philosopher, he considers the feelings and emotions of the record, and confesses to the misery and depression that motivated him to make the album one of catharsis.
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1000 Robota on mission to re-boot the German music scene
After their gig in at the Hoxton Square Bar and Kitchen in London, Hamburg-based art punk trio 1000 Robota begin our chat by telling me about another interview they’d done shortly before their set with a reporter from Intro, a prestigious German magazine. As a conversation starter, he’d informed the young group they were tosh, and he’d only agreed to speak to them so that he could come to London and shag his missus, who lives here. It’s a difficult claim to swallow without any hard evidence, and then suddenly said hack walks over to fire off a few choice Deutsche expletives and promptly leaves. A full-blown fistfight almost erupts.
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