Jack Peñate

Latest Reviews

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

Reviews

Everything Is New

Jack Peñate’s debut 2007’s Matinée was the gurning face of the skiffle-pop holocaust, an album as wide of the mark as its author was wide of visage. Since then Jack’s upped his game, looking beyond Camden’s piss-reeking dives for inspiration and tabling an unlikely ace with Everything Is New’s African-influenced pop. ‘Tonight’s The Night’ and ‘Be The One’, especially, are worthy summer soundtrack anthems, should you require a crutch for your enjoyment of the seasons.

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