Archive for: April, 2010

Fang Island – Fang Island

Fang Island, among other things, are proof that you just can’t listen to music these days without appreciation of its context. Stepping out from 50 years of cryogenic stasis and blasting this from your stereo would be a highly unsettling experience. It’s not that it’s massively syncopated, or atonal, (the kind of tools used by many post-whatever […]

Coheed and Cambria – Year of the Black Rainbow

Progressive sci-fi Fairytale metal? .… Sounds about right! Coheed and Cambria are back with another album full of myth, legend and Sci-fi fantasy. But..sadly, it’s not what I was expecting from the usually mind-blowing, New York four piece.
When I’d seen that C&C had bought out another album, I’m not going to lie…I got a lil’ excited. Their […]

GORILLAZ – PLASTIC BEACH

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Plastic Beach is the third album from Gorillaz, the duo of Ex Blur front man Damon Albarn and creative artist Jamie Hewlett.
At 16 tracks in length, it is the longest album to date, but that doesn’t mean there is any filler, quite the opposite every track has something to offer.
What first stands […]

Why do we accept the over compressed?

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Lets go back thirty years ago. It’s 1970 and Vinyl is king. It’s a musical format that is tangible, comes in various sizes and almost impossible to duplicate by the average person. People cherish their vinyl.
In the two decades that followed, Audio Cassettes appeared. People could listen to music on the go […]

DJ Tiesto Live in Cardiff International Arena

DJ Tiesto formerly known as Tijs Verwest, is a Dutch music DJ who produces his own records of electronic dance music. Tiesto a native of Breda Netherlands, unpacked his turn tables for the welsh crowd in Cardiff at the Cardiff International Arena last night 12th March 2010,
Tiesto now at the age of 40, still performs with a high stylish […]

ManOrMouse? : The Learning Curve

They say life starts at forty and it seems likely to be very true for Billy Mowbray, a fine London musician who has recently released The Learning Curve, an album we are very happy to review and recommend as it really deserves much more attention than it has had so far.
Billy has been in the music industry […]

Congratulations MGMT

Congratulations, Indeed! The long anticipated new album from the New York duo is out and I hope celebratory champagne corks are popping everywhere, because it’s unbelievably good!
If my research has served me well, it’s been little over two years since MGMT bought out their first major label studio album. But with their last album, Oracular Spectacular, […]

The French Crops Interview

Basics first: Who are you, and why should people tune in to one of your gigs?
Hello, Hello, Hello we’re French Crops, we are a five piece band based in South East London (Eltham, Welling). We have been going for about a year and a half now, and have constantly been gigging and writing material. The band sets […]

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