The Shortwave Set

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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

Replica Sun Machine

Wall of Sound

London’s soft-psych popsters The Shortwave Set had almost finished recording this album, then Danger Mouse called and asked them out to Los Angeles to do the whole thing again. John Cale and Van Dyke Parks got involved too, with extraordinary results. There isn’t a wasted second on this album, let alone a duff song, and it’s tinged with Californian soul throughout. They may be a deeply backward-looking band but this is a modern classic.

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