‘Mostly No’, Milk Maid‘s second album, follows hot on the heels of last year’s debut record ‘Yucca’ and finds frontman Martin Cohen cementing his reputation as a talented songwriter able to straddle the line between noise and pop whilst also expanding the sonic terrain the band covers. Adding swirls of Psychedelia to ‘Yucca’s’ crafted fuzz, […]
Fresh from an extensive and hugely successful two month tour of the UK, Europe and the States, Breton have announced a five date tour of the UK. They will also play further dates in Europe including a support slot in Paris with Hot Chip in July and various festival appearances including Latitude Festival throughout the […]
FatCat’s ‘post-classical’ imprint 130701 Records will be represented in live venues across Europe in May by Jóhann Jóhannsson, Hauschka and Dustin O’Halloran. Included in this stretch of dates is a triple headline bill at London’s Barbican Hall on May 18th, for details of the show seehttp://www.barbican.org.uk/music/event-detail.asp?ID=12895. Also worth checking is this month’s Barbican’s Music Podcast […]
Formed in 2004, the technical ability and deft musicality displayed in the Chicago quartet’s early EP releases saw Maps & Atlases labelled with a ‘math-rock’/ ‘post-rock’ tag, but the band have consistently defied easy categorization – perhaps a factor in engendering such a fervently loyal fanbase . Beware and Be Grateful – recorded last year in a series […]
Taken from the debut album ‘Hollandaze’ – a grimy, gum-splattered ménage of surf-gaze, punk and lo-fi – ‘Busted Lip’ becomes the latest single from Odonis Odonis on 21st May. ‘Busted Lip’ was actually OO’s debut ultra-limited edition 7″ single on Canadian label We Are Busy Bodies prior to signing to FatCat last year. Originally a solo project for […]
Fresh from an incredible performance in front of 3000 people at Transmusicales Festival last weekend, multimedia masterminds Breton announce their first UK headline shows. They will take place next March 2012 in support of their debut album ‘Other People’s Problems’, which will be released on Fat Cat Records. Dates are as follows: 28th March – […]
Hollandaze is the debut album from Canadian, Dean Tzenos. It was recorded in Vancouver with Black Mountain’s Colin Stewart and sent over to Brighton label FatCat Records, who were immediately galvanised into releasing the 10 track selection compiled here from the prolific newcomer, recording under the moniker Odonis Odonis. Apparently there were over 60 different […]
The church was the driving force behind the development of early classical music; nowadays, it’s the film industry and (unfortunately) advertising which pay the classical composer’s way. Modern ‘popular classical’ music has taken on a dance-music character, with shorter chord progressions, less of a tendency towards quirky melody lines, and an avoidance of the highly-emphasised, […]
With its crisply crafted songwriting – reminiscent of Leonard Cohen and The Lilac Time – sophisticatedly interspersed with lush orchestration, and lashings of distortion, Excerpts impresses immediately. The resulting (and desired) effect of such interplay is of an album amorphously going in and out of focus. The title, Excerpts, and track 2’s name, ‘Things I Forgot’, […]
Gregory and The Hawk, it sounds like a children’s book does it not? Indeed, singer songwriter, Meredith Godreau, took the name from her brother, Gregory, and his imaginary childhood hawk in a George Eliot-esque move – wearing the mask of someone/something else to gain credibility and avoid being pigeonholed. In Godreau’s case it was to […]
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ALBUM REVIEW - JASMINE.4.T: YOU ARE THE MORNING
ALBUM REVIEW - DILETTANTE: LIFE OF THE PARTY
ALBUM REVIEW - DELIGHTS: IF HEAVEN LOOKS A LITTLE LIKE THIS
ALBUM REVIEW - LAMBRINI GIRLS: WHO LET THE DOGS OUT
ALBUM ROUNDUP WEEK ENDING 10 JANUARY 2025
ALBUM REVIEW: MOGWAI - THE BAD FIRE
ALBUM REVIEW - PARCHMAN PRISON PRAYER: ANOTHER MISSISSIPPI SUNDAY MORNING
GIG GUIDE - JANUARY 2025
ALBUM REVIEW - DUSTER: IN DREAMS
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