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Albums Of The YearThe Albums of 2013 (#1): Fuck Buttons – Slow Focus (ATP)
Benjamin Power and Andrew Hung’s third record saw them ascend to the very top of Space Mountain Read more »| 06 Dec 2013 -
Albums Of The YearThe Albums of 2013 (#2): Steve Mason – Monkey Minds in the Devil's Time (Double Six)
Across a year of austerity budgets, fracking controversies and seemingly endless state surveillance revelations, the anger and frustration that structures&nb... Read more »| 06 Dec 2013 -
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The Albums of 2013 (#3): Factory Floor – Factory Floor (DFA)
Combining industrial noise, stripped techno and disco and driving analogue synth-sounds in their incendiary live performances, this year Factory Floor nailed their first studio album. The band's Nik Void talks tactics Read more »| 06 Dec 2013 -
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The Albums of 2013 (#4): The National – Trouble Will Find Me (4AD)
When his wife Joy Davidson died after three years of marriage, C.S. Lewis recorded his grief in a series of journals, published pseudonymously in the early 1... Read more »| 05 Dec 2013 -
Albums Of The YearThe Albums of 2013 (#5): CHVRCHES – The Bones of What You Believe (Virgin / Goodbye)
“A lot of electronic bands these days, not wanting to name names, they shy away from the melody, shy away from the song and it becomes all about how th... Read more »| 05 Dec 2013 -
Albums Of The YearThe Albums of 2013 (#6): Hookworms – Pearl Mystic (Gringo)
The aftermath of Pearl Mystic has been one of change and decisions for Hookworms' vocalist MJ Read more »| 05 Dec 2013
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The Albums of 2013 (#7): Frightened Rabbit – Pedestrian Verse (Atlantic)
After the promising dress rehearsal of Frightened Rabbit’s debut album, Sing the Greys, the Selkirk troupe quickly followed up with main event The Midn... Read more »| 04 Dec 2013 -
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The Albums of 2013 (#8): Boards of Canada – Tomorrow's Harvest (Warp)
For an elusive duo who once proclaimed ‘music is math,’ the cryptic, numerical-led announcement of Boards of Canada’s fourth album was sure... Read more »| 04 Dec 2013 -
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The Albums of 2013 (#9): Future of the Left – How to Stop Your Brain in an Accident (Prescriptions)
The end of a short tour is a mixed blessing; or, as Andrew Falkous puts it, “very sweet but kind of fruity”. It’s saying goodbye to weeks o... Read more »| 03 Dec 2013 -
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The Albums of 2013 (#10): Run The Jewels – Run The Jewels (Fool's Gold / Big Dada)
Swimming against the ego-obsessed current of mainstream hip-hop with scientific lyrical beatdowns and heavy electronic boom-bap beats, Killer Mike and El-P delivered this year's finest rap album as Run The Jewels Read more »| 03 Dec 2013 -
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Hero Worship: Cliff Martinez on Captain Beefheart
Soundtrack composer (Drive, Only God Forgives, Sex, Lies and Videotape) and former drummer for Red Hot Chili Peppers and The Dickies, Cliff Martinez tells us of his lifelong love for Captain Beefheart, and what it was like to work with him Read more »| 27 Nov 2013 -
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Opinion: Beats, Rhymes and Shite
Resident rap aficionado Bram E. Gieben looks forward to the death of the hip-hop super-ego Read more »| 30 Oct 2013 -
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Hero Worship: Black Sabbath's Bill Ward on Gene Krupa
Black Sabbath’s Bill Ward, the original heavy metal drummer, salutes the profound influence of jazz percussionist Gene Krupa Read more »| 02 Sep 2013 -
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Hero Worship: Jim Jarmusch
Sparrow and the Workshop's Jill O'Sullivan muses on the iconic indie director's ear for a good film score Read more »| 05 Jun 2013 -
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Hero Worship: Trail of Dead's Jason Reece on Waterloo Records
As ...And You will Know Us By the Trail of Dead swing into Glasgow on Record Store Day, Jason Reece salutes his favourite shop Read more »| 10 Apr 2013