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AlbumsSarabeth Tucek – Get Well Soon
Sarabeth Tucek's second album is, as the title suggests, about illness – bodily and mental – and its overcoming. From the record's opening line, ... Read more »| 25 Mar 2011 -
AlbumsThe Vivian Girls – Share the Joy
There’s not enough mathematical analysis in music reviews, is there? Shame – a wee bit of number crunching can be insightful. For instance, take ... Read more »| 25 Mar 2011 -
AlbumsDaedelus – Bespoke
Daedelus can tear up a dancefloor with his live sets, but his recorded output is about as related to mainstream notions of ‘dance music’ as John ... Read more »| 24 Mar 2011 -
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Colin Stetson – New History Warfare Vol. 2: Judges
Having worked with TV on the Radio and Tom Waits, Colin Stetson is one of those musicians who is legendary, it’s just that you don’t know it. Tha... Read more »| 24 Mar 2011 -
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Mazes – A Thousand Heys
After a bunch of splits and cassette releases, London-based quartet Mazes clambered onto the old Lightship 96, moored on the banks of the Thames, to kick out... Read more »| 24 Mar 2011 -
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Explosions in the Sky – Take Care, Take Care, Take Care
Because of the often protracted periods between albums, a new Explosions record always brings with it a mixture of expectation and trepidation, but this&hell... Read more »| 24 Mar 2011
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AlbumsFoo Fighters – Wasting Light
Expectations in the rock fraternity surrounding Wasting Light, the seventh long player from Dave Grohl’s Foo Fighters, have been reaching fever pitch. ... Read more »| 24 Mar 2011 -
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Cold Cave – Cherish the Light Years
The follow-up to 2009’s acclaimed debut Love Comes Close sees the New York-based Cold Cave continue to hone their addictive, irrepressible take on 80s ... Read more »| 24 Mar 2011 -
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Alexi Murdoch – Towards the Sun
Recorded predominately in a single night, Towards the Sun is the kind of neo-folk album that causes Pitchfork writers to suffer terminal priapisms. Murdoch p... Read more »| 24 Mar 2011 -
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Glasvegas – EUPHORIC /// HEARTBREAK \\\
So here we go again, the difficult flipside to the great debut, as inevitable as glorious Scottish sporting failure. Euphoria and heartbreak, right e... Read more »| 24 Mar 2011 -
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Weedeater – Jason... The Dragon
If there’s one thing Weedeater are, it’s reliable. Well, that and loud. Then again, so are dozens of other sludge bands, but they just don’... Read more »| 24 Mar 2011 -
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letlive – Fake History
The post-hardcore/screamo tag wasn’t always a negative one. It used to be applied to bands who displayed an excess of energy that happened to be expres... Read more »| 24 Mar 2011 -
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Bearsuit – The Phantom Forest
Bearsuit are one of the last bands you'd associate with maturity, but that is nonetheless what the Norwich indie-electro outfit seem to be grappling with on ... Read more »| 23 Mar 2011 -
AlbumsRoddy Woomble – The Impossible Song & Other Songs
Picking up where 2006’s My Secret Is My Silence left off, Roddy Woomble’s second solo effort sees him travelling further into folky territory. Wh... Read more »| 23 Mar 2011 -
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Tindersticks – Claire Denis Film Scores 1996-2009
Over two decades, Nottingham’s Tindersticks have won hearts and minds with their idiosyncratic brand of brooding elegance, while across the channel, Cl... Read more »| 23 Mar 2011