Like any enjoyable journey, it is over far too soon, leaving the listener with a feeling of nostalgia for a grand time that has passed before they knew it, as well as an intense desire to repeat the process all over again.
August, 2011
Listen: Korallreven mixtape #3, ahead of debut album release
The pair of remixing Swedes put out Inception-soundbiting mixtape ahead of debut album, succinctly named ‘An Album By Korallreven’.
Photos: Tasseomancy + Princess Century – CAMP Basement, London 30/08/11
Haunted folk ruled at Tasseomancy’s album launch show last night; our photographer Sebastien Dehesdin was there and sends back a stunning photo record of the evening.
Los Campesinos! name new album ‘Hello Sadness’
Continuing their indie onslaught to be the band that soundtracks Budweiser drinkers, Football Manager fans and sorrowful tweeters alike, the recently-reduced-to-sevenpiece will put out their new record in November.
Watch: Jay Electronica, Talib Kweli, Currensy in Blakroc 2 trailer
Watch the trailer for Blakroc 2, a collaboration between the Black Keys and a host of hip-hop artists including Jay Electronica, Currensy, and Wiz Khalifa.
Listen: Steel Phantoms – Bedouin
Steel Phantoms ‘Bedouin’ sounds rather like the chord progression has been chosen at random, or perhaps by using some elaborate mathematical formula. Unpredictability is a good thing.
[Premiere] Machine Birds – Time // Song Of The Day #318
‘Time’ by Machine Birds is a beautiful, heartbroken pop song, perfectly constructed and produced with a classic Scandinavian sheen.
Seams, Active Child, Patten, Outfit for London weekender
Sticky-floored Shoreditch landmark the Old Blue Last is set to host a new two-day festival in October, featuring Seams, Patten, Acid Glasses and more.
“I think my brain is working on another level…” – Grandaddy’s Jason Lytle revisits The Sophtware Slump
Alex Wisgard speaks to Grandaddy’s Jason Lytle about the reissue of his cult record The Sophtware Slump, as well as his thoughts on nature, Jed the Humanoid and…Pearl Jam.
Raffertie – Visual Acuity EP
With his new ‘Visual Acuity’ EP, Raffertie has rejoined the party, and in case you were worried; he’s most definitely not brought any dubstep with him.
Mirror Mirror – Interiors
Oddly inviting and satisfying from start to finish, Interiors is a stage show of an 80s inspired post-goth circus writes Slavko Bucifal.
Icarus Line – Wildlife
Sex, drugs, rock n’ roll. That’s the three things that Joe Cardamone and his band, Icarus Line, live for. Can new record Wildlife channel the passion of that triptych without avoiding the obvious cliche?
Larsen – Cool Cruel Mouth
Torino-based experimentalists and kings of collaboration Larsen have come up with one of the surprise albums of the year, an oddly-inspiring mix of post-rock and dark electronica.
Watch: TLOBF meets James Holden
In the latest instalment in our series of interviews filmed at last month’s Field Day, watch what happened when TLOBF met melodic tech totem, independent label head and (apparently somewhat reluctant) globe-spanning DJ James Holden.
Tinariwen – Tassili
Sahara’s much-celebrated desert blues heroes return with fifth album, which finds the band uprooted from their familiar recording base, largely unplugged and strengthened by guests for the first time. Amongst the familiar elements is an impressive strike rate.
Baxter Dury – Happy Soup
Six years on from a bleak second album, Baxter Dury is back – on a major label, no less – with Happy Soup, an album on which a little bit of sunshine infiltrates his unique brand of Cockney miserablism.
