A perfectly precious Christmas present is how Marc Higgins describes the latest release from Samara Lubelski.
Author Marc Higgins
The Rest – Everyone All At Once
At times dark and disillusioned, at others festive and blissful, often in the same song, The Rest are a very intelligent band, thought provoking and lyrically poetic.
Pelican – What We All Come To Need
One their latest album, Marc Higgins ponders whether Pelican have lost the fire that created their best work…
Converge – Axe To Fall
If it is true that we should keep our friends close, and our enemies closer, then keep this band of holy shitstormers in your constant periphery! Marc Higgins reviews.
The Longcut – Brudenell Social Club, Leeds 20/10/09
Live, a band needs to bring you into their headspace, and into their songs – unfortunately, at a small venue in Leeds, The Longcut can’t quite make it stick.
Low Low Low La La La Love Love Love – Feels, Feathers, Bog and Bees
A beautiful and disarming record, even if we’re not quite sure about the name, Low La Love have crafted another mini-masterpiece of Americana influences folk.
Califone – All My Friends Are Funeral Singers
Elements of blues, country and folk all interspersed with sparse electronics and atmosphere. Califone return with new album ‘All My Friends Are Funeral Singers’. Marc Higgins reviews.
Spacemen 3 – Perfect Prescription
‘Perfect Prescription’ gets the re-release treatment. The album fused Spacemen 3′s already euphoric, dense sound into an epic monument of what guitar music can be and how it can transcend.
Bat For Lashes – O2 Academy, Leeds, 13/10/09
The extravagance and colourful spectrum of Bat For Lashes makes Natasha Khan one of the most important musicians to come around in recent years.
Castanets – Texas Rose Thaw & The Beasts
Castanet’s trembling take on folk country takes elements of electronic and post rock music resulting in nothing short of beautiful. Marc Higgins reviews.
Six Organs of Admittance – Luminous Night
Luminous Light is another step of crafty perfection that has become synonymous with Six Organs. Another triumph for Ben Chasny as he crafts his landscape of palatial dream.
Share – Pedestrian
The charm here is in Share’s ability to craft really small intimate songs that sound gigantic. ‘Pedestrian’ is a record of poetry, full of stories to embrace.
Moriarty – Gee Whiz But This Is A Lonesome Town
From the backwaters of Americana folk come Moriarity. Part bluegrass, part olde folk and part country, their debut ‘Gee Whizz…’ reminds us what is good about indigenous American folk.
Zu – Carboniferous
Noise rock, brutal metal, experimental jazz, all in one giant melting pot. Take a dip, you’ll feel the bloodlust soon, Marc Higgins is sure of it.
ATP Nightmare Before Christmas – Minehead 5/6/7th December 2009
Riding a sleigh from the depths of ungodly hell. Never before has ATP’s nightmare vision been more fully realized than this weekend.
Squarepusher – Just A Souvenir
The sounds of sonic colour is upon us, he’s not forever pushing squares!
