Category: Sound

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

Loitered Lens : Gold Lake

Photos of Gold Lake at the Hoxton Bar and Kitchen...

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The Pearl Harts : The Garage, Islington [Live]

The Pearl Harts, a tenacious, rock hungry duo opening the show for Kagoule....

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Application : System Fork

Fascinating hybrid forms that don't fit easily into genres, but operate along a fluid ambient/electronica/electro spectrum...

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3 Teeth [Album Review]

3 Teeth give their audiences a place to shake it out and survive. A sort of spiritual one night stand. And what is that if not the highest apex of rock and roll?...

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NILE [Live]

Egyptian mythology-themed death metallers NILE get necrotic in Southampton....

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Loitered Lens : Othon

Othon - 'a joyous celebration with a meze of cultural references'. Photos ...

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Finntroll (and Friends). [Album Reviews]

The album is perhaps best seen as an intro to the band’s early to mid era - all polkas, accordia, kazoos, strange insect noises and trolls (lots of trolls)....

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Othon : The Garage [Live]

the musical equivalent of opening a fairy tale pop-up book and watching the characters jump out and dance around your head...

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The Eye of Time : Acoustic

The album Acoustic places you in a paused sense of feeling, a disruptive and causal sense that yesteryear and future are being played out....

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Loitered Lens : Deadline

Photos of UK punk/hardcore band Deadline....

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Metrist : The People Without

These are not clean, conventional productions and are all the more interesting for it. ...

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Loitered Lens : Beast Within UK

This is rock and roll and the brakes can't be put on for a bunch of overpaid kids kicking a ball and falling over a lot whilst people starve to death nearby....

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Tesla : O2 Academy, Islington

No glitter, no razzle-dazzle, but a rapport that oozes sincerity and solid music to follow up. Tesla, Live at the O2, Islington. ...

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Hearts Aren’t for Drowning (Nicole Atkins)

My old label had some suggestions that I sing like Alanis Morisette! I said, 'F*ck that!' ...

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Hans Bouffmyhre

Four different tracks from an album given different treatments. Hans Bouffmyhre's Where I Belong remixes. Review...

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Cloud Atlas : Beyond the Vale

It's Heidi Widdop's distinctive vocals that set Cloud Atlas apart from many of their obvious peers, but this album's sound is as much about Martin Ledger's soaring melodic lead guitar...

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Nicole Atkins : Slow Phaser

an album of vignettes that, while emotional, exhibits a diversity beyond the singer's own and thereby transcends the pitfalls of contemporary pop...

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Loitered Lens : James

The Electric Ballroom was so packed there was a genuine risk of impregnating the total stranger who you were forced to rub up against....

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Jon Edwards, Anne-Marie Helder (Panic Room) : Interview

It’s fun for us as musicians to see how the material subtly changes and develops when you play it live...

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Answer Code Request : Code

While this is not an “in your face” album, the best of these precisely engineered tracks have a strong pulse and circulation...

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Burning Toward the Light (Lloyd Yates)

Our music comes from what we like. We create our sound from what we like. Lloyd Yates...

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Loitered Lens : Arena

Arena’s brand of heavy neo-prog is as cheesy as hell. But they do the whole thing so well it just doesn’t matter...

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Mostly Autumn : Dressed in Voices

From full-on rock to passages of delicate beauty and back again - Mostly Autumn, Dressed in Voices...

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Bolder : Hostile Environment

There's no catharsis and no release, only an extended crawl through the wreckage...

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Trinity Live

Good as Arena were, it was still Magenta who ultimately stole the show, and I can't imagine any other artist begrudging them for it...

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Loitered Lens : The Sonics

Every number was another thick layer of royal icing on the garage cake ...

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Taylor McFerrin : Early Riser

Wringing a sense of soul, warmth and jazz-like complexity out of sequencing, samples, sidechains and good old organic musicanship...

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Pitbull Terrier – New Die Antwoord Video

DIE ANTWOORD Release PitBull Terrier Video ahead of new LP "Donker Mag" June 2nd on Zef Records...

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What is Black and White in Sound?

How do we remove timbre from sound, the way we can remove color from an image? How do we get an aural analog of black & white images?...

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Loitered Lens : The Galileo 7

Photos of The Galileo 7 supportingThe Sonics at Koko, London....

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