Ocean Age wound up in daily inbox scour this evening, and have already brightened up my rainy sunday with their steady, blissed-out jams. From out of Portland, Oregon (home also to Menomena, M. Ward and the wonderful Yacht) Ocean Ages dropped a 27 minute, six track EP (LP?) named ‘Forest’ in February and took the [...]
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Goodbye Technoir MA, Hello Bedfellows.
August 15th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Album Reviews, Previews
It is with regret that we announce the demise of promising upcoming pop duo Technoir MA, who kept us more than entertained in February with the stunning ’2/B’ EP. It was 80s inspired guitar music accompanied by drum machines and the direct, confident vocals of singer/guitarist Justin Vassalo. Their crazed post-punk was noisy and abrupt, [...]
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New Track: Kinnie The Explorer – Fazell’s Garden
August 8th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Album Reviews, News
Album Artwork by Anna Deutsch Ed Baxter is the programming director of Resonance104.4fm. He was nominated for the Sony Radio Academy Awards 2010 “Station Programmer of the Year”, featured in The Independent on Sunday’s Happy List in 2009 and was runner-up for the PRSF New Music Award 2008. He has toured with Faust, Otomo Yoshihide and Alvin Lucier. This Music [...]
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EP Review: We Are Trees – Boyfriend
August 2nd, 2010 · No Comments · Album Reviews
We Are Trees may appear from the photo like the latest hipster dance duo to top the hype machine charts, but the reality is far from it. Providing virtually no information about themselves, other than a simple label of ‘bedroom pop’, the four members on the EP play to the tunes of singer/songwriter James Nee, [...]
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Album Review: Villagers – Becoming A Jackal
August 1st, 2010 · 1 Comment · Album Reviews
Villagers was formed in 2006 by Conor J. O’ Brien after the breakup of his former band “The Immediate“. They released one album together, “In Towers and Clouds”, to much critical acclaim – having sparked considerable interest from London before eventually releasing the LP on Fantastic Plastic. O ‘Brien wrote the first Villagers song the [...]
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Album Review: Bombay Bicycle Club – Flaws
July 16th, 2010 · No Comments · Album Reviews
It goes without saying that in even considering an acoustic album Bombay Bicycle Club have taken a very bold step away from what the majority of their NME brandishing fanbase are going to be comfortable with. Calling the album “Flaws” is similarly, crying out for a critic to twist the title into a cynical review [...]
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Album Review: Teen Daze, Four More Years
July 14th, 2010 · 2 Comments · Album Reviews
Teen Daze // Four More Years // Arcade Sound Teen Daze has taken the internet by storm since he started posting music up on his Tumblr in late April of this year. According to this really interesting interview from Beyond Robson, the project had been going little more than a few weeks before Pitchfork caught [...]
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Album Review: Milagres – Seven Summits
July 9th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Album Reviews
Milagres have been floating around for a while – but coinciding with a name change during 2009 from ‘The Secret Life of Sofia’ to the Portuguese word for ‘miracle’ – the New York City five piece dropped an EP – “Empty Sleeves” in 2009 and an LP “Seven Summits” in May 2010. Having picked up [...]
Review: Cloud Nothings – Didn’t You 7″
July 7th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Album Reviews
Dylan Baldi, the Cleveland 18 year old behind the lo-fi project of Cloud Nothings dropped his latest snippet of material post-’Turning On’ last month with the Didn’t You 7″ single, out on Old Flame Records June 24. Sounds like they all had a great time, the band headed out on tour with Wavves after the [...]
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Album Review: The Besnard Lakes – Are The Roaring Night
June 25th, 2010 · No Comments · Album Reviews
The Besnard Lakes hail from Montreal, Canada, formed in 2003 by husband and wife duo Olga Goreas and Jace Lasek. Now a four piece, Are The Roaring Night comprises the band’s third studio album. With the second, “Are The Dark Horse” featuring guest appearances from Stars, Godspeed You Black Emperor, The Dears and Silver Mt. [...]
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