Music
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OpinionThe Albums of 2012 (#7): Dirty Projectors – Swing Lo Magellan (Domino)
With influences that ranged from Lil Wayne to Neil Young made plain from the outset, Dirty Projectors' sixth LP could easily have been a mess. Thankfully Dave Longstreth's latest vision was quite the opposite Read more »| 05 Dec 2012 -
OpinionThe Albums of 2012 (#8): Godspeed You! Black Emperor – Allelujah! Don’t Bend! Ascend! (Constellation)
A decade on from their last album, and with precious little fanfare, Godspeed You! Black Emperor proved they were still a force to be reckoned with. Praise be Read more »| 05 Dec 2012 -
OpinionThe Albums of 2012 (#9): The Twilight Sad – No One Can Ever Know (FatCat)
Embraced by a growing legion of fans but shunned by an increasingly chart pop-oriented UK summer festival circuit, The Twilight Sad's frontman James Graham looks back on a bittersweet 12 months Read more »| 05 Dec 2012 -
OpinionThe Albums of 2012 (#10): Matthew Dear – Beams (Ghostly International)
Matthew Dear's Beams spearheaded the 2012 trend that saw electronic producers embracing classic songwriting and pop music tropes - but what has he got planned for next year? Read more »| 04 Dec 2012 -
Interviews
Last Shop Standing: The State Of Independents
The humble record shop has had a tough time of it these past few years. But when author Graham Jones and director Pip Piper began to document the current landscape for their Last Shop Standing project, they found heartening signs of recovery Read more »| 04 Dec 2012 -
Live Music
Live Music Highlights – December 2012
This month's live music highlights, including an unmissable show with The Twilight Sad, We Were Promised Jetpacks and Holy Mountain, and plenty more highlights from the likes oof Beth Orton, Gary Numan and Malcolm Middleton Read more »| 04 Dec 2012
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Live Music
Christ. @ Pivo Pivo, 25 November
On record, one of the most engaging things about Christ. is his masterful keyboard playing. His extended, hypnotic improvised synth lines and spiralling, int... Read more »| 04 Dec 2012 -
Live Music
The Metal Column – December 2012
It's no lie: December's a tough one. Record releases begin to slow down, and a lot of touring bands tend to slip into hibernation. You're going to need som... Read more »| 04 Dec 2012 -
Reviews
Dam Mantle – Brothers Fowl
Following a slew of well-received EPs for labels like Get Me and his own Growing label, Glasgow-based Dam Mantle returns with an eight-track mini-album tha... Read more »| 04 Dec 2012 -
Live MusicO2 Love Music Column – December 2012
Having emerged as an avant-garde synth group in the late seventies, and morphing into the chart-straddling, eighties pop behemoths we know today, The Human L... Read more »| 03 Dec 2012 -
Reviews
Loops Haunt – Zenith EP
Ostensibly starting out as a dubstep label, with releases by the likes of DZ, Marlow and Scotland's magnificent Akira Kiteshi, Black Acre have evolved into a... Read more »| 03 Dec 2012 -
Live Music
Purity Ring / Doldrums @ Stereo, 27 Nov
The Canadians have cottoned on to something – if you're going to play electronic instruments, particularly MIDI devices, the possibilities for technica... Read more »| 29 Nov 2012 -
Live Music
Dirty Three / Zun Zun Egui @ Òran Mór, 25 November
Upstairs at Òran Mór can be a difficult venue in terms of atmosphere: the cavernous spaces of the church tend to absorb energy and create awk... Read more »| 29 Nov 2012 -
Reviews
Sinkane – MARS
Wiping the slate of less distinctive past releases, Sinkane (Sudanese New Yorker Ahmed Abdullahi Gallab) presents MARS as a re-boot debut – a fresh sta... Read more »| 29 Nov 2012 -
Reviews
The Douglas Firs – The Furious Sound
Albums about the superstitious persecution of woman are like buses, it seems. A month after Darren Hayman’s The Violence set the witch trials of 17th&n... Read more »| 28 Nov 2012