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
Stars
In Our Bedroom After The War
City Slang
Stars' fourth album is all over the place, but in a gloriously messy, enveloping way. My Favourite Book sounds like Morcheeba; 'Midnight Coward' like Captain; 'The Ghost Of Genova Heights' perhaps Scissor Sisters. It's tied together by a gentle decadence: swirling, ambient sounds wash over you, capturing the same spirit as Death Cab's 'Transatlanticism' and taking you somewhere purer and otherworldly. A fantastic, majestic album from a band with an insatiable creative spirit.
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