Category: Sound

Without music, life would be a mistake. – Friedrich Nietzsche

Head Cat – Live London 2011

Rock and Roll; graceless music for rebel outcasts, Head Cat called the sabbath crowd to disorder.   Lemmy (Motorhead), Slim Jim Phantom (The Stray Cats) and Danny B Harvey (Lonesome Spurs)...

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Moodymanc Vs Jamie Finlay – People Circulate

Development Music make much of their artists' Manchester provenance in the promotional literature accompanying this release. Even the artist's name really wants to be sure you know where he...

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Maguett – Twilight EP

Brace yourselves, Moscow-based musical technician Maguett has been tricking about with a PowerMac between lectures and is about to unleash 'a brand new monument called IBM : Intelligent...

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Mister Heavenly – Out Of Love

Ah, the supergroup. A confluence of minds, talents and ideas, or a vanity project cobbled together by egotistical musos with too much spare time? Hmm… let’s see… Asia?...

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Nils Frahm – Felt

Pianists's fingers knurl and bulge with the same blunt mutantcy as freshly-dug jerusalem artichokes. Easy as it is to imagine the rigours on the hands of Prokofiev's yard-long keyboard...

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Jim Stapley – 100 Club

It's great to be straight, oh yeah. Leftfield journalist experiences musical ennui in the face of lauded talent.  Peter Parker R&R Club are the loosest bunch of garage rock acolytes...

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Real Estate – Days

Real Estate. Even the name is dull. Recently signed to Domino records, Real Estate's second album – Days – is something of an anomaly in a label roster which boasts the freeform...

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Paul Catten – Themes and Variations for Strings and Electronics

Paul Catten - Themes and Variations for Strings and Electronics...

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Macks Faulkron – Friends EP

As much as sixties psychedelia has been artlessly plundered by last month's media darlings, Best Coast, it seems only logical that the 90s re-visioning of that movement be picked over in the...

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Into the Unknown: Radiohead – Good Evening Mrs Magpie

There’s one thing about dance music and that is it tends to divide people. Dance music is seen by some as a lesser ‘Techno Techno’ form of music, devoid of intellect and not up to...

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Hevy festival 2011 – review

Starring Dillinger Escape Plan, Architects, Funeral for a Friend, and Bouncing Souls, the third year of Hevy proves that festivals are an astounding musical democracy.  Set near the Folkestone...

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Pure X – Pleasure

Summer echoes… Don’t you just loathe the term shoegaze? As far as categorisations go, you can’t get much lazier than trying to sum up a band’s entire raison d’etre by...

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Summon the Crows – One More For the Gallows

Growling through concrete Norsk pounders test the rope.  'One More For the Gallows' is the second full-length album by the Norwegian band Summon the Crows.  The album contains 10...

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Winter – Into Darkness

A fingernail through the cellophane, Winter lets out the night.  Originally released in 1990 and widely considered to be a cult classic, Into Darkness from New York outfit Winter is now being...

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Talvihorros – Descent Into Delta

Hypnotic? Delta guitar driven purges by ascending maestro.  The term 'hypnotic' is one that is bandied about far too often in music reviews, a kind of catch-all term for any number of...

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Bong – Beyond Ancient Space

Beyond Ancient Space is the most recent release from  Psychedelic Minimalist Doom band Bong. Many people believe a bands name should be a reflection on their music and with Bong, you can pretty...

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Stateless – I’m on Fire EP

Symphonic electronica and beguiling voices – 'I'm on Fire' feeds the spirit. There really is a lot of range on this five-track EP. Hell, there's more range in each one of the...

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Sonisphere, UK 2011: Giant Slayer Or Fish Out Of Water?

This years Sonisphere Festival at Knebworth House, Hertfordshire, boasted one of the greatest line-ups I have ever seen at any British music festival. With their highly anticipated first ever visit...

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Bloodstock 2011

Blinded by the righteous black Bloodstock 2011 gathers the tribes. ...

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The Deer Tracks- The Archer Trilogy Part 2

When is Pop not pop? Swedish duo The Deer Tracks are an unusual proposition, blending hook-laden, high-gloss pop with glitchy folktronica and esoteric sonic constructions. Though crafting tunes that...

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Jono McCleery – There Is

Jono McCleery delivers a classic album in There Is. SBTRKT, Jamie Woon, hell, even Radiohead. The fan of beguiling male vocals set against beats is suddenly well-catered for. Jono McCleery's...

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Hey Colossus – RRR

Some albums create such a palpable atmosphere of pure rebellious force they create a burning sensation in your chest; Hey Colossus’ RRR is rock and roll firewater....

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Dalston Riot: DELS (featuring Roots Manuva) – Capsize

As this review is being written, Tweetdeck's pop-up window appears repeatedly to comment on the Tottenham, now Dalston, and seemingly soon-to-be Hackney riots. The tweets range in their tone from...

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The Antlers – Burst Apart

Burst Apart is the musical equivalent of a fly hitting your car windscreen while you're driving the motorway en-route to what is sure to be a great party with good mates. For a very brief moment...

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Sabi/Kiyo – 71:36

Sabi and Kiyo add yet more megabytes to the IDM glut. Force Intel is a sublabel of Mille Plateaux, the latter's management choosing to found a new imprint as a release platform for the music they...

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Lupen Crook – Waiting for the Post-Man

Dark poetry is blended with Goth folk in an attempt to produce a subtle emotive sound. However this self-infatuated and fatuous musical narrative is really just a simple and desperate plea for your...

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S.C.U.M. – Electrowerkz 13th July

S.C.U.M weave noise and wonder. S.C.U.M. have built something that few bands ever manage, mystery. Dazzling the UK press isn’t as easy as one imagines and in many cases is dependant on winning...

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Emika – Pretend/Professional Loving

After her interpretation of Amon Tobin's 'Surge', Emika's Pretend' comes as something of an uneasy shock. The track is taken from her forthcoming album, entitled simply...

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Into the Unknown: Youth Lagoon – July

Usually when I come to write this piece I put the featured song on the stereo and engross my mind in it, trying to glean every nuance and groove from the song, no need this time. I believe I’ve...

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Sonar 2011: Triumph of the Hype.

It's a sad if not tragic irony that a“Festival of Advanced Music and Multimedia Art” should (also) be the site of mass cultural and social regression, but the longer you spend at...

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