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.
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13-08-2010 Demos – Issue 27
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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Reviews
Clinic
Do It
Domino
There was a time when it was definitely ‘No Scrubs’ for Clinic, but now it’s very much ‘What’s up, doc?’ If the last albums sounded like extensive surgery then Do It is a nurse’s party where someone has brought the horse tranquilizer. Relaxed, uninhibited, though often unruly - never before have they evoked Radiohead at their most simplistic mixed with Pink Floyd at their most nihilistic. They’re coming through the coma. Let’s hope someone is listening.
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