If you like intelligent, shape-shifting pop music then this is an artist you need to keep tabs on. The video for ‘DJ, Ease My Mind’ continues with the current trend of recycling found footage to startling effect. 1970′s acrobatic vibes galore.
July, 2010
[Premier] A Weather: ‘Third of Life’
Signed to Conor Oberst’s Team Love label, ‘Third of Life’ is six minutes of hushed vocals and loosely played guitar that gently bluster, all the while threatening to soar – but the payoff is kept at arms length throughout. Really affecting stuff.
Marconi Union – A Lost Connection
After a trudging label-related debacle, Manchester’s Marconi Union finally get to release their third album, A Lost Connection in physical form, having originally been released digitally by the duo through their own Marconi Union Transmissions.
John Kameel Farah plots UK dates
Mixing free-jazz, minimalist piano and gut-punching electronics has earned John Kameel Farah quite a reputation on the improv scene on the other side of the pond. This summer he’s bringing his spellbinding show to the UK.
[Competition] Win tickets to see intimate PVT show!
PVT, who will release their rather great new album Church with No Magic on 9th August, are playing a special, intimate, invite only show at London’s Old Blue Last on 6th September. A show you CAN’T buy tickets for. So, luckily for you, Warp have given us 2 pairs of tickets to this event! This [...]
Wolf Parade – Expo 86
All in all, Expo 86 is the album Wolf Parade were always meant to make – neither buoyanced by the incredible serendipity that preceded Apologies To The Queen Mary nor the abhorrent lack of focus that flagged At Mount Zoomer, Expo 86 finds Wolf Parade finally settled on a middle ground- and by God, it suits them.
TLOBF Interview // Tokyo Police Club
Fresh from their Euro tour and the release of second album Champ, Amy Pay caught up with Newmarket, Ontario’s finest.
Watch Mogwai’s Burning Movie Tonight!
Mogwai are under-taking a “virtual” screening of their brilliant live movie, Burning, tonight. From 8pm, if you come back to this VERY page, you’ll be able to click on the video below to view it in all its grandeur.
Tom Jones – Praise & Blame
Tom Jones does southern-fried gospel? Yeah, and he does it well. You shouldn’t be surprised.
Tony Da Gatorra Vs Gruff Rhys – The Terror of Cosmic Loneliness
A collaboration with one of his heroes – a Brazilian TV repairman named Tony Da Gatorra who has a sideline in quasi-hippy protest rock – the ten songs on The Terror of Cosmic Loneliness make up the strangest record Gruff Rhys has ever put his name to.
Holy Ghost – Static On The Wire EP
Signed to DFA, does Holy Ghosts debut EP live up to the rosta? Jen Long reviews.
SOTD #108 // Phillip Oskar Augustine: ‘Leopard Thighs’
‘Leopard Thighs’ seems positively timid, meandering softly like a trickling brook, before it bursts into life with a flourish, a cacophony of jangly guitars and yelps, a torrent of melody unleashed.
[Photos] Giant Sand & Kristin Hersh – Barbican, London 22/07/2010
Steve Asenjo was at the Giant Sand featuring Kristin Hersh + Howe Gelb & A Band Of Gypsies gig at London’s Barbican last week.
Toro y Moi – CAMP Basement 19/07/2010
Through a fuggy, overblown mix – drums too high and everything else just not quite right – the tiny frame of Chaz Bundick, the man behind Toro Y Moi, attempts to reproduce the impressive sounds of Causers of This.
Wintersleep – New Inheritors
New Inheritors is an endearing collection of finely crafted tales of escapism, lament, and mistakes, and while it’s not likely to shift a lot of units over here in the UK, it’ll surely feature highly on many muso’s end of year lists.
Room40 announce two day Openframe event at Cafe Oto
ROOM40, the label and multi-arts organisation based in Brisbane, Australia, are celebrating their 10th anniversary with a series of events across the globe. They come to London’s Cafe Oto for two nights of wonderful musical entertainment under the Openframe banner. Thursday 4th November Chris Abrahams – of The Necks, read our interview with him here. [...]
