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.
Latest Reviews
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
Reviews
David Karsten Daniels
Fear of Flying
Fat Cat
A talented songwriter who largely escapes being po-faced because he has a strong voice and always something to say. Early albums were bitty, found sound affairs - a lo-fi approach he rejected with his last record and finally destroys with this new effort. It’s a very serious and brave LP, full of grand pronouncements and soaring arrangements. Big songs, but stick a pencil in my eye if he doesn’t grate the shit out of you by the end of it.
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