Vampire Weekend Academy, Bristol Friday 31st October 2008 It’s Halloween and they’re called VAMPIRE Weekend. Audience and band alike are in ghoulish fancy-dress. There’s a spooky synergy to tonight’s...
Category - Music
Thursday 23rd October 2008 Recession looming. Clocks soon to go back. Winter fast approaching. People too depressed to party? Hell no! Joseph Mount’s Metronomy possess tunes so good that even Gordon Brown would dance his...
More abstract thoughts on the latest Bum Tapes release from Zach Kouns. ZACK KOUNS – Network and Circuitry of Nettles C34 Dark post-modern murder ballads and avant-garde pop are played out in a jumble of bongo-rhythms...
Maths Balance Volumes – Tried To Make A Call C11 Fractured vocal vignettes, broken organ melodies, squelchy stunted phrases and echoey grunted rhythms – Tried to Make a Call is a tonic to a shrinking world where everybody...
Some abstract thoughts on one of several new releases from the mighty Bumtapes. Find it, buy it, love it. Drunjus – Master Tree Finder C52 Tangible and guttural, this narrative of basslines, brown notes, and whispered...
Cool bands playing songs in the back of black cabs in London town. What a fantastic idea – I wish I’d thought of it and had the resources to carry it off. I didn’t. Those lovely people at Black Cab Sessions know...
Every now and again I stumble across a band that I have previously been completely unaware of and then all of a sudden they are in my life. Buried deep in my consciousness, their songs provide a soundtrack to all of my...