Yeasayer played the first of two intimate shows at The Lexington on Wednesday and Gen Williams was there to catch their ever-varied and vital offerings.
Gen Williams
Festival Diary: Wireless 2012
A selection of chart titans took over for Hyde Park on Saturday as part of this year’s Wireless Festival and Gen Williams was there to witness it all.
Paul Simon – Graceland (25th Anniversary Edition)
Graceland is fine, great art. A quarter of a century on, it still dazzles.
Saint Etienne – Words and Music by Saint Etienne
An austere document from these stylish synthpop figureheads; intelligent and enjoyable, but one for a certain mood, to soundtrack time spent alone.
Hype Williams – Power Lunches, London 16/04/12
They lie about their names and origins, they number rather than name their tracks and they smear every whip-crack beat with cringing levels of feedback and warped, paranoid samples. This is Hype WIlliams – and fuck you if you can’t figure it out or draw your own conclusions about them, write Gen Williams
Toy + Savages – XOYO, London 11/04/12
Savages dazzle while hyped psych-revivalists Toy lack a certain something, writes Gen Williams.
Joe Gideon & The Shark – Harum Scarum
Not a moment too soon for the debut LP from this idiosyncratic duo. Joe Gideon and Viva ‘the Shark’, fraternally related and formerly of Bella Union alumni Bikini Atoll may have just delivered one of THE albums of 2009.
An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump – Hoxton Bar & Kitchen, London, 22/01/09
An Experiment On A Bird In The Air Pump are strong contenders for ‘most unwieldy band name of the year’. However, they’re young, focused and very very good according to Gen Williams.