No reviews today, just a couple of interesting articles from The Guardian today.

First up is one about the rise and new found power of music websites like Pitchfork and Drownded In Sound. It’s interesting to hear an artists view on being made and destroyed over night by the same website. Full article here.

Next is a piece on the rise of Balkan and “gypsy” influenced music like Beirut and A Hawk And A Hacksaw - the Beirut album is, without doubt, one of my albums of the day and it’s interesting to here Condon talk about his influences. He raises some interesting points as well about just creating music regardless of where is comes fromt, just absorbing it and creating infectious melodies. Full article here.