This version of Feist & Chilly Gonzales’s ‘Limit To Your Love’ will be the first taster from James Blake’s eagerly awaited debut album due in early 2011. The video was shot by the hugely talented Martin De Thurah – most commonly known as the director of Fever Ray’s stunning ‘When I Grow Up’ clip.
October, 2010
Of Montreal – Koko, London 06/10/10
There’s a tendency for some reviewers to dismiss Of Montreal as facile indie-pop, but this is the perfect counter-argument; proof that behind the silliness there’s real depth to this Gay Parade. Adam Elmahdi reviews.
Guest Column // Parkdale Life – A Musical Journey in West Toronto
Parkdale is a former working class neighbourhood in West Toronto, long on the cusp of gentrification but perhaps never quite there – and home to an astonishingly deep and interconnected community of musical life. Alan Davey, Chief Executive of Arts Council England takes us on a tour of the neighbourhood.
No Age – Everything In Between
This is undoubtedly a brilliant album, and it’d be criminal if it weren’t atop plenty of the end of year lists that are fast approaching, but the sense that it is in its predecessor’s shadow still persists.
Maps & Atlases – Perch Patchwork
The Chicago quartet has scaled back on the somewhat esoteric melodies that featured so prominently on their early material, and replaced that with buoyant, poppy songs that still maintain the quartet’s fitful experimentalism, but are ultimately much more accessible and engaging.
Swahili Blonde – Man Meat
Not the sort of record you’d expect to feature ex-members of Duran Duran and Red Hot Chili Peppers, Swahili Blonde mine percussive No Wave and fractured funk.
Spirits Of The Dead – Spirits Of The Dead
Norway’s Spirits Of The Dead have clearly combined their love of 60s rhythms and 70s psychedelics with a fiercely contemporary take on blissed-out, wonderfully progressive rock that echoes bands like Wolfmother, Porcupine Tree and Dead Meadow. Employing echoing vocals, vibrantly upbeat drum patterns and heavily-fuzzed guitars, they twist and turn their way through a debut [...]
The Black feature ex-members of Voxtrot and Trail of Dead…
The Black are a band that feature some old faces, and some old sounds…
SOTD #149 // No Joy: ‘No Joy’
Four and a half minutes of drop-D riffs that -in the wrong hands- could quite easily mutate into self-indulgent guff, however this particular beast not only manages to be completely bewitching but effortlessly cool to boot.
Darwin Deez announces UK tour for 2011
Darwin Deez has announced details of his biggest UK tour to date, taking place in February and March next year!
Lil Wayne – I Am Not a Human Being
Lil Wayne is out of jail in less than a month and has been presumably been away from codeine cough syrup and auto-tune for nearly a year. This *is* a fun record, but Lil Wayne at his peak was a world-beater. It would feel great to welcome that version of Wayne home again.
Team Ghost – Celebrate What You Can’t See EP // Track By Track
We asked Team Ghost’s Nicolas Fromageau to take us through his new EP – Celebrate What You Can’t See. Not only has he talked through all of the material but he’s also included a free download of Signs & Wonders.
Everything Everything – ARU, Cambridge 05/10/2010
TLOBF got into a bit of bother with Everything Everything’s fans over our lukewarm reception to their debut album. Can their live show impress Rich Hughes?
TLOBF Sessions are hiring; wannabe film-makers enquire within
We’re looking for wannabe film-makers and photographers to help us film The Line of Best Fit Sessions. Give us your time and what you’ll get is the opportunity to work with us filming some of the most exciting and inspirational new music around.
Gatekeeper: ‘Chains’
Gatekeeper sees Merok throwing out the hammer horror card to devastating effect – just in time for Halloween. There’s most definitely going to be a murder on the dancefloor come December 13 when the resulting Giza EP is unleashed onto the world.
Kelley Stoltz – To Dreamers
To Dreamers is the perfect title for this album, innocently dedicated to all those nostalgic souls that yearn for a return to a time when things were just that little bit less complicated.
