Music :: Feature 03 Dec 2008
Jorge Marticorena: Deerhunter ain't playing hard to get no more. Before, it was a bit difficult to find the patience to absorb a body of work like Cryptograms, an album that craftily shrouded its charming traces of pop with art-damaged atmospheric interludes. But once yo...
Records :: Album Review 13 Oct 2008
Dave Kerr: With their third full-length LP this Atlantan art-punk quintet can still conjure up an image of Christopher Walken in a headband - carelessly waving a revolver at his own temple - but the difference now is that Deerhunter seem a little more concerned a...
Music :: Live Review 20 Jun 2008
Chris Cusack: Like two spectators at a grisly android autopsy, tonight's supporting duo, High Places (**), hover intently over the spilled electrical innards tumbling across the table-top before them. However, there are few musical sparks in a set of inoffensive - i...
Heads Up :: News 06 Jun 2008
Dave Kerr: Having only just done gone given away new album The Slip for gratis, Trent Reznor - he of Nine Inch Nails fame - has just released a digital only EP to support the band's forthcoming US tour, again, for absolutely sod all. As well as carrying a new tu...
Music :: Preview 02 Jun 2008
Pete Ballantine: If the first incantation of shoegaze was a decidedly British affair, the second coming of floppy-fringed pedal-pushers is predominantly from across the pond. Not that this is a bad thing, mind you. The raft of American upstarts invading these shores se...
Music :: Preview 23 May 2008
Ted Maul: Edinburgh These woozy summer nights, there's nothing quite like them, eh? Tiny Dancers do a pretty good job of capturing that magic, so get along to Cabaret Voltaire on 4 June and soak up the good vibrations. Much hyped, and with good reason, these S...
Records :: Single Review 11 May 2007
Billy Hamilton: Deerhunter's second record, Cryptograms, was an enthralling splurge of sound. As sonically relentless as Liars, yet more intimate than Funeral-era Arcade Fire, it left critics drooling - and new EP Fluorescent Grey is a further extension of this dualis...
