Category: Sound

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

Loitered Lens : The Dead Famous

Photos of The dead Famous from the Camden barfly, June 2013...

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Professor Green : Watford Colosseum

Professor Green brought the party with him, bouncing up and down, roaming the stage like a caged tiger and stepping onto the monitors to reach out to the crowd...

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The Icarus Line : Slave Vows

A dangerous high-powered oxyacetylene blowtorch aimed straight at the heads of all those preened plastic pretend pointy-shoed rock and rollers that have bred like maggots over the stages of the land...

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Iain Jennings : My Dark Surprise

Some of the delicate piano lines on this record are quintessential Iain Jennings...

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Alva Noto & Ryuichi Sakamoto at Yoko Ono’s Meltdown

Overall, while this could never be described as radical (and wasn't intended as such), it was a technically and visually impressive event, with several moments of great power and subtlety....

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Soft Riot : Fiction Prediction

There are some interesting concepts and experiments here, but the moral of the story is that those who live uncritically by the 1980s creatively die by the 1980s...

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Loitered Lens : Barb Wire Dolls

The lack of a bassist did not detract from the noise. The guitar was driving and furious, at times bordering on thrash metal and with frequent chugging hard rock power chords....

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Queens of the Stone Age – New Show

The High Lords of Loud Sell out Wembley Arena - so more shows for us! New added show 23rd November 2013...

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Matthew Herbert : The End of Silence

When you find the press release that accompanies an album more interesting than the music itself, then you know there’s something wrong....

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Silent Old Mtns : Naked Raccoon [Interview]

I don't think anyone has heard these tracks outside of the band, except maybe my Dad...

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Barb Wire Dolls : Camden Barfly

Frontwoman Isis Queen has the appearance of a prettier, sexier and somewhat healthier Nancy Spungen...

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WOMAD 2013 – Lineup!

2012 presented a ridiculously high water-mark of exceptional performances from some fantastic global acts. Will WOMAD 2013 stack up? ...

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Loitered Lens : Wolf Alice

While some bands seem swamped by the occasion as they graduate to larger venues, Wolf Alice greedily grasped the opportunity like a terrier’s jaw clamped onto a bone...

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Subjected : Zero

Although the press release talks of 'punishing' and 'strident' techno and its industrial qualities, there's often a feeling of restraint on this release...

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Tribes, Wolf Alice [Live]

Listening to Tribes is an experience tantamount to finding that there’s no salt on your chips....

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Loitered Lens: Tribes

Photos of Tribes at the Roundhouse where damp gussets and hormone-saturated sweat....

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Soundscape Ecology : interview with Steven M.Miller

Sound has this wonderful ability to slip past our defenses and infiltrate our experience of place in ways we aren’t aware of, yet respond to nonetheless. Music is just one aspect of this much...

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Mick Harvey Interview: Part 2

In part 2 of his interview, Mick Harvey talks about Nick Cave, murder and PJ Harvey....

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Joel Sarakula : The Golden Age

The nostalgic waft of times past may be enough to propel Sarakula into the playlists of the nation's barbeque evenings. ...

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Master Musicians of Bukkake : Far West

This is unashamedly music for musos... there are rapid and unpredictable chord changes, sudden transitions in tempo and then multipart drone...

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Badger Swagger Charity Single

Badger Swagger invites the public to voice their opposition by signing up to the government e-petition site in order to make the government listen and stop killing badgers...

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Loitered Lens : Duke Garwood

As Garwood complained of being, “blinded by his own sweat”, the room was soaked in swampy tales....

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Kode 9 : Rinse 22

It''s not hard to imagine some of these complacent and conformist tunes blaring from car radios or being played in clothes shops this summer...

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Tubular Bells for Two : [Live Review]

...they play as fans to whom the album is a sacrament – a resonant feeling that the audience of Oldfield devotees appreciated - Tubular Bells...

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Mick Harvey Interview: Part 1

In part 1 of his interview, Mick Harvey talks about Australia, love songs, religion, songwriting and the new album...

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Chthonic – Bú-Tik

'symphonic black metal, with a leaning towards melodic death'. Chthonic's album Bu Tik ticks all the extremist boxes. Some of it's even in Taiwanese. ...

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New Festival to be Launched on the Isle of Man

The Isle of Man Festival in association with MTV, a brand new festival for 2013! ...

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Reverend Elvis Interview [Part 2]

I don't follow any religion or political ideology or whatever. I can think by myself....

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Riot:Noise [Live at the Borderline]

Playing at 8pm to a room of first pinters shouldn't make a difference to these seasoned road dogs, and true enough by the end of the show there were new fans aplenty....

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Steve Hackett : Hammersmith Apollo

It wasn't a reverential note-for-note reproduction of the original recordings, but neither was it a ground-up re-imagining that didn't respect the original versions....

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