Eighties synths and second hand disco guitars ahoy for the sometime fashion label’s latest compilation, starring Icona Pop, Gallops, Is Tropical and Fiction.
ReviewsAuthor Simon Tyers
Help Stamp Out Loneliness – Help Stamp Out Loneliness
Debut album from indiepop’s latest great white hopes, a Mancunian sextet who sound roughly like Nico fronting Camera Obscura with Stereolab’s keyboards.
The Leisure Society – Into The Murky Water
How to follow an album that received Ivor Novello Best Song nominations for two different tracks? With a record that expands the palette without overcrowding it writes Simon Tyers of the new Leisure Society long-player.
We’re all about responding to things in a positive way: TLOBF meet Maybeshewill
Ahead of Maybeshewill’s third album, John Helps of the intricately coruscating instrumentalists talks to Simon Tyers about their working methods, the DIY aesthetic and their local scene.
Colourmusic – My _____ Is Pink
Oklahoma-based psychedelic pop band, heavy on distortion and rhythmic space rock freakouts. No, not *that* one, another one.
Young Knives – Ornaments From The Silver Arcade
The difficult third album from Ashby-de-la-Zouch’s contribution to the post-punk revival was recorded in LA, leaving much of their feted Britishness behind.
The Rock Of Travolta – Fine Lines
Eight years after their last album, Oxford’s tremendously named titans of neo-classical post-rock return with an album as elegant as it is hard-hitting.
Gang Of Four – Content
With ‘Content’ it feels like Gang Of Four are missing a couple of cylinders. Not wanting for effort but cagey and sapped of some vitality where they should be setting down a full throttle marker for those that followed in their footsteps.
Royal Trux – Royal Trux / Twin Infinitives / Untitled / Cats And Dogs
The first four albums by Washington DC’s seminal Stones-meet-Sun Ra abstract blues-noise duo get reissued. One of them keeps giving Simon Tyers a headache.
RIP Trish Keenan 1968-2011
Trish Keenan, frontwoman of Broadcast, died this morning in hospital from complications with pneumonia following a lengthy stay in intensive care. We take a brief look back on the life of a true sonic adventurer.
British Sea Power – Valhalla Dancehall
The foliage friendly former Mercury nominees’ fifth album sees them branch out in epic, rhythmic and politicised dimensions while still recognisably themselves.
Talons – Hollow Realm
Hereford sextet’s debut album is a visceral, vicious slab of math flavoured post-rock with heavy riffs, dual duelling violins and grandiosity as standard.
