Grappling Hooks is an album that reaches for the sky, and is all the more better for it. Fearless ambition need not always mean failure, and North Atlantic Oscillation demonstrate this emphatically.
March, 2010
Last Harbour – Volo
Manchester’s Last Harbour evoke both the sorrow of Joy Division and the world-weary outlook of Nick Cave. Divided into quarters, their album Volo proves itself to be a work that, unusually, you can dip in and out of.
SOTD #34 // This Is Head: ’0003′
This Is Head manage to churn out a sound that is exceedingly fresh and frightfully exhilarating. “0003″ is a ten minute long adventure down the autobahn of life. The adventure starts now!
Newsround :: Featuring The Suzukis, Darwin Deez & ATP Compilation
New live dates from Darwin Deez, the latest video from The Suzuki’s and the ATP record label announce a limited edition 10″ for Record Store Day.
[Photos] Times New Viking w/ Yuck – The Portland Arms, London 21/03/10
Photos from last night’s TLOBF Sponsored show at Cambridge boozer The Portland Arms featuring the stirling lineup of Yuck and Times New Viking.
To Rococo Rot – Speculation
Speculation, the Berlin trio’s sixth full-length LP, is their warmest, most human album yet. Recorded in a secluded rural area of southern Germany ”like a band playing a live show”, the bucolic surroundings and more freeform dynamic are pleasingly evident.
The Hidden Cameras – St. Leonard’s Church, London 18/03/10
It’s not often that you attend an indie gig compered by a transvestite, but then again, it’s not often you encounter a band like The Hidden Cameras.
The SXSW Diaries // Day 4
SXSW is over. I am the hangover. Live videos from Gwar, Sleigh Bells, Dawes and an interview with the terribly good looking Savoir Adore.
Standard Fare – The Noyelle Beat
Simon Tyers falls for the debut album by a Sheffield-based trio bringing back to the fore the best qualities of bittersweet English indie-pop.
Lower Than Atlantis – Far Q
Far Q proves Lower Than Atlantis can be more versatile than Hexes and sharper than Ghost Of A Thousand and can give their peers a bit of a shock according to John Skibeat.
TLOBF Interview // Josiah Wolf
Josiah Wolf talks about the pressures of emerging from behind the drum kit, putting together an album in solitude, and how David Berman helped him rise above the comforts of his speaking voice.
The SXSW Diaries // Day 3
Thurston Moore, J Mascis and a punch in the face. Oh and not to mention meeting dark overlords Gwar in a convention center. All in a days work for our SXSW scribe Jen Long.
TLOBF Interview :: The Hidden Cameras
Hidden Cameras frontman Joel Gibb takes time out from his bands huge Euro tour to catch up with TLOBF, while the TLOBF lens snaps the band in action in Brighton.
Turin Brakes – Outbursts
Turin Brakes return after three years… The question is, why did they bother?
The SXSW Diaries // Day 2
Good Morning from Austin, Texas. This morning is awesome because it’s the first morning, ever, in my history of attending SXSW that I don’t have the slightest hint of hangover.
SOTD #33 (Alessi’s Ark Takeover) // Alessi’s Ark: ‘Shovelling’
In the final day of the Alessi’s Ark takeover, she’s gone all vain and posted up one her own songs. It’s a newie AND a goodie though, so we’ll let her off.
