Pulled Apart By Horses return with their follow-up to 2010′s self-titled debut. As Michael Copus discovers, there’s still plenty of time before these lads will need to be used for glue.
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Mastodon – The Hunter
For all its drive and frantic pace, staples of the Mastodon juggernaut, there is a constant feeling that the band has lost some of the wildly adventurous silliness that made them so easy to fall in love with. Mike Copus reviews.
Amon Tobin – Isam
Amon Tobin continues to be a unique pioneer in the world of electronic music. Isam is a difficult record to love, but there’s no doubting the genius behind its creation.
Vessels – Helioscope
Vessels become the latest in a pretty extensive list of bands from Leeds releasing mightily impressive music. Mike Copus reviews the follow-up to 08′s White Fields and Open Devices.
Queens of the Stone Age – Queens of the Stone Age (re-issue)
13 years ago a band released an album with a front cover that depicted a woman about to pull down her pants. Unsurprisingly, it’s been out of print for nearly just as long. Until now. Michael Copus goes back to where it all began for Queens of the Stone Age.
Middle Class Rut – No Name, No Colour
Middle Class Rut make more noise with two members than a whole bevy of Slayer fans. But is it enough to gloss over a lack of ideas? Michael Copus reviews.
Tera Melos – Patagonian Rats
Patagonian Rats is a complex beast. Vastly ambitious, it’s hard to pin down a particular sound that these boys from Roseville, California have aimed for. If anything, they’ve taken a whole concoction of musical ingredients and stirred them up into an album that is haunting, enticing, and most of the time, engrossing.
Electric Six – Zodiac
Electric Six bring another innuendo-loaded party in the form of Zodiac, but it isn’t their best.
Ex Libras – Cut(s)
Ex Libras come out of the shed again with Cut(s), a refreshing take on the debut that TLOBF fell in love with late last year.
TLOBF Interview // Oceansize
Quite sweary and very hungover, Oceansize lead man Mike Vennart sat down to have a chat with Michael Copus about the band and where they’re going.
Oceansize – Self Preserved While the Bodies Float Up
Oceansize finally return with their fourth album, which Michael Copus reckons is their “masterpiece”.
Tubelord – Tezcatlipōca
Tubelord return, albeit fleetingly, with the Aztec-inspired Tezcatlipōca. Despite its briefness, it’s a sign of good things to come.
Pulled Apart By Horses – Pulled Apart By Horses
Pulled Apart By Horses finally get their act together and release their full length debut, and like their live shows, it’s an absolutely emphatic display of raw power, aggression and…sheer nonsense.
TLOBF Interview // Pulled Apart By Horses
Pulled Apart By Horses take their first ever headlining tour onto its London stop, and Mike Copus popped by to have a chat with drummer Lee Vincent, before getting crushed by a few hundred sweaty rock fans.
Rage Against The Machine – Finsbury Park, London 06/06/10
Over 500,000 copies of ‘Killing In The Name’ saw Rage Against The Machine take Xmas No.1 and promise a free show to celebrate. But while Rage have lost none of their fervour, their message seems to have got lost somewhere, believes Mike Copus.
Rolo Tomassi – Cosmology
Rolo Tomassi might be young, but they’re steadily proving themselves to be a something a little bit special amongst their peers in the UK music scene. Mike Copus dives into the bizarre world of Cosmology, and somehow comes out the other end sane.
