Music
Not Forgotten: They Might Be Giants – Apollo 18
Apollo 18 is the album that cemented They Might Be Giants as an act that would endure rather than burn briefly. Sure, the hit single “Birdhouse in Your Soul” had dragged its parent album, Flood into the charts in its wake, but TMBG already felt the need to play around with their sound, resulting in …
Track: The Radio Dept. – Occupied
Swedish dream poppers The Radio Dept. returned, rather unexpectedly last September after a four year absence, with a track, Death to Fascism, just in time (or timed perfectly?) for the Swedish elections. Now they’re back for real, with Occupied, taken from their long awaited fourth album, and available now on 12″ limited edition vinyl and …
News: Light in the attic to release Karin Krog collection
She was a new one on us, Norwegian jazz singer Karin Krog. Over the last five decades she’s been treating, and educating, and thrilling jazz fans across Scandanavia to her way out post-bop spiritual jazz, bringing together the experimental worlds of electronics and jazz to create something rather special, but maybe hidden (or is that …
Premiere: Daisy and the Dark release video for Red Planet
Recently I wrote about there being something about the Jones’s…Mr Jones (Counting Crows), (Me and) Mrs Jones (Billy Paul) and then Mrs Jones by Pearl TN. This week I want to talk about the letter K, but not the ‘K’ synonymous with the popular horse tranquilizer. Somewhere between the ghostly gliding and luscious laments of …
Track: Slime – Hot Dog, plus album news
Multi instrumentalist Will Archer is preparing to release his debut album, Company, under his Slime nom-de-plume. The Newcastle born multi-instrumentalist and producer recorded the record over two years, it was eventually realised when Archer went to a rabbit warren of a studio in Hackney, where the album was whittled down from the near 400 tracks …
Table Scraps : More Time For Strangers
Birmingham, England’s Table Scraps are a duo that sound like more than the sum of their parts. The racket they make on their debut album More Time For Strangers is that of a Gothic Ty Segall; a hollowed-out, ghostly Stooges haunting Blue Cheer on some abandoned, dilapidated Michigan farm. This is dark, bellowing garage rock coming from …
Psych Insight: EP Review – Array 1 by Loop
When the Pixies released the first of their three EPs after a prolonged absence, back in 2013, many suspected that the decision to stagger their new material was deliberately made to circumvent the critical emphasis that would have been inevitably placed on the songs, had they been released together in the traditional album format. It’s …
Meet: Interview With Auction For The Promise Club
The indie trio Auction for the Promise Club may come from a beautiful beach town in Cornwall (St. Agnes) with a vibrant music scene, but if you are expecting laid-back Beach Boys tributes or upbeat sunshiny summer party music, think again. With the punchy, brooding lilt of singer and guitarist Zoe White Chambers’ voice and Perran Tremewan’s Muse-like inky guitar, they …
Meet: Matt Bigland from Dinosaur Pile-Up interview
We’ve been much taken recently with 11:11, the lead single and title track from Leeds rock trio Dinosaur Pile-Up’s third album. A mixture of rock and old school Seattle grunge, the band have built a big following through riff and melody heavy tunes, and well recieved albums Growing Pains (2010) and 2013’s Nature Nurture. We …
Track: Quantic – Creation (East L.A.) plus album news
We’ve long had a thing for Quantic, aka British born producer Will Holland. He moved through so many areas of electronic music during his years, and has spent the last handful of years studying and immersing himself in the music of South America, Africa and the Caribbean, producing a handful of brilliant (and often collaborative …