Archive - Trebuchet

Sublime Simplicity: Miroslav Tichy & Shimabuku

28/05/2011

Miroslav Tichy & Shimabuku at the Wilkinson Gallery strips the world bare and celebrates the uncomplicated and beautiful. Another month, another First Thursday. Galleries on the surprisingly...

Leaving The Church of Free Market Miracles

27/05/2011

Where does one find succor and seeds of renewal in times such as these? Everything that everyone is afraid of has already happened: The fragility of capitalism, which we don't want to admit; the...

Sixth June – Back for A Day 12”EP

26/05/2011

Party like it’s 1982… It’s good to be reminded of how young you are sometimes. To any more mature readers of this article, I assure you this isn’t meant as a smug gloating...

Watch the Pretty Birdy: Sage Vaughn

25/05/2011

Sage Vaughn’s press bio is a juxtaposition of culture and wildness, of knowing clichés and their subversion, bold phrases that beg repetition, and suggestions of a contemplative day trip...

Make Better Music 44: Polyrhythms….the hallmark of complexity!

24/05/2011

Make Better Music 44: Polyrhythms….the hallmark of complexity! Lessons in music composition, song writing, artistic motivation and making better music from David Graham. ...

Inevitable End – The Oculus

23/05/2011

One of the first words one might use to describe the second album from Sweden’s Inevitable End is schizophrenic. However this is the wrong word. For something to be called schizophrenic...

Eye Hear, Heart See 3: Please, please, please

23/05/2011

In my mouth It sting my lips It's like eclipse As I'm in the crossword puzzle But I can't fill in the blank Cibo Matto – 'White Pepper Ice Cream' When the loving is fast...

Anna Calvi, Grouplove, and Big Deal, ride with the NME

22/05/2011

A mixed bag of sugar and saccharine, the NME Emerge tour closed on a high. The NME Emerge tour is about bringing rising stars to new audiences. The cult of the Next Big Thing is alive and well...

David Tort – Jack it Up

22/05/2011

David Tort’s ‘Jack it Up’ promises ‘a tempestuous sea of dark synths’ but actually delivers ‘a turgid canal of muddy loops’. With pretensions to dancefloor...

Lillian Bassman – Enter the Boutique

21/05/2011

I don't go to boutiques. I don't check out fashion photography either. But this is something different. There's a world in here. Standing outside the Donna Karan boutique off Regent...

Roger Waters Revives The Wall

20/05/2011

Roger Waters’ 2011 production of The Wall takes a classic of anomie and updates it with startling and necessary results. Roger Water’s transmutation of The Wall, a personal investigation...

“Crack makes me feel like Jesus ought to”

20/05/2011

Drugged under one Crack nation - The United States of Dixieland: Corporatism, empire, Jesus, and the death genes....

Weekend Nachos – Worthless

19/05/2011

Weekend Nachos - Worthless - Relapse Records 2011...

Hexstatic – Scan Me EP

18/05/2011

Trailer Trax's 'Scan Me' EP wallows so deeply in the 1990s that it ought to be buried in a time capsule with a Sega Megadrive and a Blue Peter badge. 'The music business has...

Into the Unknown: tUnE-yArDs – Bizness

17/05/2011

This is what happens when you're blindsided by a song so great it should be hugely popular? I was not quite sure which way to go this month. I thought that by the time this went online this tune...

Make Better Music 43: Has everything been done?

17/05/2011

Make Better Music 43: Has everything been done? Lessons in music composition, song writing, artistic motivation and making better music from David Graham. ...

Gold-Bears – Are You Falling in Love?

16/05/2011

What's that sound in my ears? The Gold-Bear's debut album is messing with my head. And my hands are dancing too! The Gold-Bears have been developing their sound for a number of years. Formed...

Eye Hear, Heart See 2: Optimo

16/05/2011

Every night's a different story It's a thirty car pile-up with you Everybody's getting younger It's the end of an era, it's true. – LCD Soundsystem – Dance Yrself...

Going Nowhere?

15/05/2011

Nowhere is an arts-based event inspired by the infamous Burning Man, but is Nowhere a quaint “Euro-taster” or an event in itself? For the last eight years the Spanish desert has been lit...

Scenes of Plenty: British Library

14/05/2011

'men seek after a better notion of riches and of the art of getting wealth than the mere acquisition of coin'. Essay on Wealth...

Sarah Jarosz – Follow Me Down

13/05/2011

Travelling through the past’s future: Sarah Jarosz cuts a timeless album of particular appeal. Singer-songwriter acoustic music is the bane of my existence. Plucked chords and soaring female...

Interstates and States of Grief

13/05/2011

On US Interstates, we meet the US empire coming towards us. In this evocative video, we meet confederate ghosts and demons of consumer emptiness. We travel down the highway, propelled by engines of...

Caretaker of the Curious: Leyland Kirby

12/05/2011

"I think everyone should take more risks constantly, not just musicians" James Leyland Kirby (latterly known as The Caretaker) is a mysterious figure in electronic music. Respected but...

Slugabed – Moonbeam Rider EP

11/05/2011

Can Slugabed's quirky beats and basslines inject new life into pre-packed dancefloor anthem hooks? Perhaps. Slugabed's Moonbeam Rider EP comes from the mind of a musician who has spent a lot...

Make Better Music 42: Being the Next Big Thing

10/05/2011

Make Better Music 42: Being the Next Big Thing. Lessons in music composition, song writing, artistic motivation and making better music from David Graham. ...

Blank Dogs – Collected By Itself: 2006-2009

09/05/2011

The first steps are always the hardest… Some bands can take a while to focus their ideas. So it was with Brooklyn’s Blank Dogs. Nowadays, they are a spellbindingly opaque mix of...

Eye Hear, Heart See 1: Float On

09/05/2011

The highway is for gamblers, better use your sense Take what you have gathered from coincidence The empty-handed painter from your streets Is drawing crazy patterns on your sheets This sky, too, is...

Austerlitz – Austerlitz

08/05/2011

How soon is too soon. Parisian indie rockers Austerlitz go for bronze. Austerlitz have rushed to release a record that with a couple of months worth of emphatic development would have been...

Bloodiest – Descent

07/05/2011

How often when listening to a new metal band do you stick on the record, sit through it for the duration then ask yourself the question, “What the fuck?” For me that doesn’t happen...

The Politics Of Revenge And Submission

06/05/2011

Transmuting Lead into Gold: America's Politics Of Revenge And Submission. When the individual feels, the community reels Osama Bin Laden is dead. And so is the U.S. republic. We had to destroy...

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