It was seeming more and more likely that The War On Drugs would drift into obscurity following the moderate success of their debut LP ‘Wagonwheel Blues’, now almost three years ago. It was an album with no real structure or purpose, one song drifting into another with no constraints on length, order or timing. What [...]
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New: The War On Drugs – Comin’ Through
September 5th, 2010 · No Comments · News, Previews
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Weekend Roundup #22/8 – Wild Nothing, Fever Ray, Small Black
August 22nd, 2010 · No Comments · News, Previews
This week’s A-Level results provide confirmation that (by three marks overall) i’ll be moving to Brighton for Sussex University at the end of September. Which means, This Music Wins is going to be seeing a lot more live reviews by the time October and November come around. Off the top of my head there’s a [...]
Tags:esben & the witch·fever ray·glasser·peter gabriel·small black·The National·wild nothing
New: Come On Gang! – Fortune Favours The Brave
August 17th, 2010 · 1 Comment · News, Previews
I’m not massively into music like this as a matter of course, but Edinburgh indie rock trio Come On Gang! make swift and scratchy post-punk with such urgency and tightness that its surely impossible for anyone with both their sanity and hearing intact to ignore. Fronted (or backed, since the lead singer doubles as the [...]
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Weekend Round-up #16/8 – No Age, Ducktails, Gold Panda
August 15th, 2010 · No Comments · Live Reviews, News, Previews
This is a weekend round-up i’ve been excited about all week – new music from noise-punk outfit No Age‘s upcoming LP “Everything In Between”, a new track and world tour from Real Estate guitarist’s other project Ducktails, as well as the first drips of new material to emerge from Röyksopp’s album Senior. But first, having [...]
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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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Weekend Round-up #8/8 – Spectrals, Magic Kids, Fol Chen, Teengirl Fantasy, Anthony & The Johnsons
August 8th, 2010 · No Comments · News
After Spectrals came ever so close to crashing out on my floor after their gig with Girls at the Talking Heads Southampton, i’ve grown a certain attachment to them. The conversation wasn’t the only memoir to that brilliant night however – their Leave Me Be 7″ was the first vinyl single I ever bought. It [...]
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Weekend Round-up: J. Tillman, Guards, Junip + more
August 1st, 2010 · No Comments · News
The debut seven song EP from mysterious lo-fi band Guards dropped in its mastered form on July 21st via Bandcamp. Other than a series of tweets from fellow 60s revivalists CULTS (who feature on one of the tracks), very little is known about the band. Perhaps the trend of having an unsearchable one word band name [...]
Tags:caroline polachek·cults·elizabeth sankey·fleet foxes·guards·j. tillman·jeremy warmsley·jose gonzales·junip·mount kimbie·summer camp
Weekend Round-up: #25/7 – Deerhunter, Delorean, Ra Ra Riot + more
July 26th, 2010 · No Comments · News
July’s been a busy one, especially in terms of those records I find myself feeling obliged to buy. This week saw the arrival at my door of Oxford psych-folk band Stornoway‘s debut album Beachcomber’s Windowsill (a follow up from the rather coldly received introduction on TMW last year), Wolf Parade‘s Expo ’86 (sequel to the [...]
Weekend Round-up: #18/7 – Women, Cut Copy, Interpol + more
July 18th, 2010 · 1 Comment · News
All male Canadian art-rock band Women (above) dropped the preview track from their upcoming album “Public Strain” this week. Its a noisy installment of lo-fi punk by name of “Eyesore”, with spindly guitars and fashionably murky recording styles encasing reverb soaked harmonies and jangling leads. Despite the harshness of the recording, the structures are really [...]
Tags:crocodiles·cut copy·Interpol·millionyoung·the walkmen·women
New Track: The Walkmen – Stranded
July 13th, 2010 · 1 Comment · News, Previews
New York City band The Walkmen have been quiet of late – traditionally slotting themselves in next to equally morbid post-punk/indie rock bands in vein of The National, Editors and perhaps even Neutral Milk Hotel – the shoegazing Dylanites occasionally dip into country and rock music not unlike Phosphorescent’s latest offerings. 10 years on from [...]
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