Belfast’s Not Squares took a strange route to becoming a dance band, and are all the better for it. Their sound is by turns anarchic, willfully madcap, heavily percussive and, by their own admission, still yet to hit their stride.
FeaturesAuthor Danny Wadeson
French Horn Rebellion – The Infinite Music Of French Horn Rebellion
From the instrumental, brooding interludes to the dance-floor bangers, this debut represents a late contender for album of the year says Danny Wadeson.
I Blame Coco – The Constant
A vanity project by the daughter of Sting, or something more substantial? Danny Wadeson finds out.
TLOBF Interview // The Joy Formidable
With three US tours and a number of European, Australian, and UK tours already under their collective belt, The Joy Formidable are one of those bands; doing what they do best, to people who dig their music, on their own terms.
Russ Chimes – Midnight Club EP
Russ Chimes has produced an EP with a cohesive narrative and, despite the disco-friendly bombast of three really excellent tunes, a sense of restraint as well. A classy debut EP according to Danny Wadeson.
CFCF – The River EP
There certainly is plenty of potential on The River EP, Danny Wadeson just just hopes CFCF’s next work breaks the banks a little more.
The Good The Bad – From 001 to 017
Danish based The Good The Bad make it very simple to encapsulate their sound: Wild West rock ‘n’ roll.
Owen Pallett – Swedish Love Story
Unashamedly pretty and very compelling, Owen Pallett has just proved to Danny Wadeson that he’s as wonderful in 17-minute chunks as he is in hour-long heart-rending epics
Ninja Tune – XX
For Ninja Tune HQ, Ninja Tune XX is an actual celebration; for us listeners it’s cause for one.
Cours Lapin – Cours Lapin
Cour Lapin’s debut is something special: a melodic, wilfully single-minded oddity in an era of mainstream-pandering fusion.
Drum Eyes – Gira Gira
The music of Drum Eyes is mad. Not in an ostentatious, or a frivolous, unsettling way; it just seems to be the product of a group with plenty of talent who have realised that a lot of modern music bores them.
D_rradio – Parts
D_rradio return to the public ear with their third studio release Parts. Danny Wadeson wonders if it’s reductive to say that their latest is more ambient than their previous offerings?
