February 2011
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Stream: The Chapman Family - Burn Your Town →
A full week ahead of its release, The Chapman Family’s phenomenal debut album has been made available to stream over at Artrocker. It’s the sound of a band truly coming into their own. We’ll be giving you the lowdown on ‘Burn Your Town’ rather soon. Keep those eyes peeled.
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WatchStream // Gold Panda - Marriage EP
I mean, really: this is like a who’s who of the best artists in electronica right now. There’s the frighteningly young Halls (interview with him coming very soon), the joyous Star Slinger, the critically-acclaimed Forest Swords and the glorious Baths. Oh, and they’re all remixing one of the finest in the game: Gold Panda. There is absolutely...
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Quick Fix: Toro Y Moi - Underneath The Pine
The death of a genre Toro Y Moi immediately became associated with before his career even got going, was imminent at the moment ‘Causers Of This’ came out. Whilst Washed Out vanished into the ether, Chaz Bundick was quick to remove himself from any cheap “chillwave” tags. His debut, Causers Of This, was surprisingly adept and progressive, and his follow-up, out a mere one...
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Sucioperro: The Heart String & How To Pull It
‘This dark moment will pass’. This line, taken from storming opener ‘Running From All That Doesn’t Tempt You’, seems to be the general message of the new Sucioperro record, an album which finds them in significantly more cheerful form than that which we last found them in. If their second album ‘Pain Agency’ was any colour, it was pitch black; probably...
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WatchAUDIOVISUALS/// FOE - Tyrant Song
There’s some ‘Hot New Trash’ on the way from FOE in April. It seems that when she’s not busy lending her voice to something with Adam Crisp’s (AKA The Man Behind Entrepreneurs) name on it, he’s returning the favour and doing something for her, like producing her debut release. They’re one of the tightest partnerships...
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Radiohead: The King Of Limbs
The most surprising thing about this album is its very existence. This time last week, most of the world had scarcely come to grips with the fact that the release of a new Radiohead album was imminent. Those who had managed to do so had moved onto the speculating stage. What would it sound like? Which of the various tracks premiered over the previous two-and-a-half years would make it? (We count...
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Tahiti 80: The Past, The Present & The Possible
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Name a French band who have enjoyed success in the UK. Go on. If you answered ‘Phoenix’, good job. If you struggle to think of any others, that’s perfectly acceptable because, well, we do too. Domestic success clearly does not equate to waves being made elsewhere. Tahiti 80 should know; they’ve been together for all of 18 years at this stage,...
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WatchHere’s the rather excellent new album from Lykke Li, available for streaming almost a full week ahead of its release this coming Monday. 28th February. Hope you enjoy it as much as we do.
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Yuck: S/T
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Oh, so now we know what happened to Cajun Dance Party. ‘The Colourful Life’ was a solid debut, one that displayed a young band with plenty of potential. They hadn’t found their feet, sure, but at their age they wouldn’t have been expected to have done that so soon. There was a plan to follow that one up with another album in the same year....
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Hold Your Horse Is: Forgive And Forget
Well, this is a song we won’t ‘forget’ in a hurry. Here’s some thundering, no-holds-barred math rock. If you’re into that sort of thing, you’re going to love Hold Your Horse Is (if you didn’t already). They’re the kind of band who can give you a Hella-va good time - and for those of you who haven’t been paying attention, take a look at this....
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WatchStream // Gil Scott Heron, Jamie xx - We’re New Here
A record made up of spoken voice snippets, sprawling electronics and the occasional “proper” song, ‘We’re New Here’ doesn’t half have its moments. Stream it all here in this tasty looking player.
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PJ Harvey - Let England Shake
scribed for This Is Fake DIY Coming to terms with the fact that ‘Let England Shake’ is: a) a pastoral record about war, and b) perhaps the darkest album of Polly Jean Harvey’s career is no mean feat. The real challenge lies in how to interpret some of the lyrics, what to decipher when gazing over the sleevenotes, and what certain songs refer to. Like the very finest of albums, ‘Let England Shake’...
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WatchAudiovisuals// Yeasayer - I Remember Seems a while since ‘Odd Blood’ hit these shores, raising Yeasayer’s profile ten-fold by providing us with one summer anthem after another. This Sophia Peer-directed video shows a Jeff Bridges-like figure trawling through the outback, experiencing something of a drugs-trip.
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Quick Fix: Mogwai - Hardcore Will Never Die, But...
‘Hardcore…’ is one of those albums that, somewhere along the way, you might hear someone cite as their very favourite. Not that it’s spectacularly good, or even the peak of Mogwai’s esteemed career. But it’s easy on the ear; accessible and as smart as any other record in the band’s collection. So, in the light of being an introduction to post-rock, the...
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Daddy Lion: The Scientist's Lament
The lack of press shots around for Jeremy Joseph’s project has led to me being forced to use the cover art for his debut EP. I have not listened to the aforementioned EP yet, mainly because I’ve been stuck on his newest song, ‘The Scientist’s Lament’.
It’s brilliant. For some reason, every now and then it reminds me of a song Coldplay might have written as a...
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James Blake - James Blake
scribed for This Is Fake DIY In the history of enthusiastic press releases, the one that went out for James Blake’s highly-anticipated debut has to be one of the most hyperbolic I’ve seen in quite a while, so I’m going to cut to the chase and clear a few things up. This record is not the best thing since sliced bread. For all its forward-thinking vision it does not tick all the...
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The Boxer Rebellion: The Cold Still
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A band that’s independent in every sense of the word is quite hard to find these days, so it’s heartening to see that The Boxer Rebellion have remained true to their ideals for ‘The Cold Still’. The only reason they even brought in someone else to produce the record for them was that they needed a second opinion. In other words, ‘unless...
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Cut Copy - Zonoscope
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As part of the pre-release build up to Zonoscope, Cut Copy released some behind-the-scenes videos depicting the making of their third record. Far from revealing, they simply portrayed a band congressing in a suburban house, in something of a soporific state, slowly padding out tracks and giving very little away. They looked far too comfortable for the group that...
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WatchAUDIOVISUALS// James Blake - The Wilhelm Scream Barring a re-release of ‘Limit To Your Love’, this is the song on James Blake’s self-titled debut that will reach out to mass audience. Its simplicity overwhelms the pitch-altered vocals and the minimalism. This, it has to be said, could fit into the Radio 1 daytime schedule and for that, Blake should be applauded. ”I...
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Swimming: Sun In The Island
It seems we have one of the singles of the year on our hands already, and it’s all thanks to a glorious chorus that is doubly effective because it comes almost out of nowhere. Swimming, you cheeky bastards, you’ve gone and left us floored. ‘Sun In The Island’ starts innocuously enough, misleading the listener who thinks it will be an appropriately summery dream-pop song.
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Watch Rough Trade’s Micachu and the Shapes return, clad with their usual inventive edge which although offputting to unwilling listeners, couldn’t be more infectious than on ‘Happiness’. The follow up to ‘Jewellery’ looks all the more thrilling.
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WatchYes, Low are back and yes, there are shivers down my spine. Beautiul and bold, ‘Try To Sleep’ is everything an avid fan could ask for.
Give your email and grab the download.
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WatchAudiovisuals// Echo Lake - Young Silence
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