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
Percee P
Perseverance
Stones Throw
Almost 20 years after his debut single, the Bronx's legendary, lung-collapsing rapper gets a first album out and how aptly titled it is. He's been doing guest verses, freestyles and hounding his tapes since 1992, generally keeping it real and, well, persevering. He's undoubtedly one of the finest to have graced the mic and though the wilfully weird Madlib's shoehorning of beats under his killer rhymes has produced some odd results, most of it works. Just don't call it a comeback.
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