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13-08-2010 Demos – Issue 27

I’m tired, I’m confused, I’m dirty and I’m hungry, and five yards away my girlfriend is trying to sleep… Guess I better review these demos, then.


13-08-2010 Tom DiCillo, When You’re Strange

What can be said about the Doors’ back story that hasn’t already been covered? The truth, for a start.


28-07-2010 Wavves – King of the Beach

There could hardly be a more apt sounding death knell for lo-fi indie garage than Nathan Williams’ infantile pop farts. Both the genre and Wavves itself have been due a backlash for some time now.


27-07-2010 M.I.A. – /\/\ /\ Y /\

In another universe, parallel to ours but not too distant, Mathangi ‘Maya’ Arulpragasam is the pivotal character in Pulp’s ‘Common People’.


27-07-2010 Sleigh Bells – Treats

Everyone seems to hear something different in the kind of piercing racket that only the pairing of a former hardcore guitarist and an ex-girl group singer could produce


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Animal Collective

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Strawberry Jam
Domino

After an awesomely public leak, there are not many who haven't heard Strawberry Jam yet. 'Fireworks' is a summing up of the album proper - neon explosions in a dark night sky. Less organic than before it remains awash with snatches of half remembered hooks and offbeat crashes of static mass. It's frenetically alive; fizzing under sustain and delay. And the heavy influx of electronics is warped and bubbling.

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