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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...

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...

Outliers in Emotion: Enduser

06/05/2011

"I think Dubstep is something that just got out of hand creatively and now it's just a bunch of people ripping each other off" Trebuchet’s love affair with Breakcore continues...

Dutch Uncles – Cadenza

05/05/2011

So NME accuse this album of 'musical incompetence' and being 'baffling', whilst The Fly go with 'one of 2011's most exciting prospects'. Things are already juicy....

Dels – Gob

17/04/2011

Fear, righteous anger, too much booze and a boldly-drawn emotional vision, this debut from Dels wraps the disorientation of over-intelligent urban British youth into forty minutes of poetic and...

The Luyas – Too Beautiful To Work

16/04/2011

In my book, there’s absolutely nothing wrong with being a bit weird. Though I tend to apply this maxim a little too broadly in personal terms, when it comes to music, the best acts are, more...

Start and Complete – Complete at the start?

09/04/2011

About Group's new album “Start and Complete” is an experiment in spontaneity. A fine idea, but does spontaneity really breed better music? When About Group got together to record...

Fire Folkers: Van Susans

06/04/2011

Sofia Ilyas spoke to Van Susan, a popcore rock band fast on the rise and about to make some noise in your direction, about now and the shiny future. Trebuchet: Can you tell me about the band,...

Prostitutes in Nigeria

01/04/2011

After a few days here, despite all the doom-laden warnings, I was fairly confident that spotting Nigerian prostitutes wasn’t going to be much of a problem. The Grand Mirage – a kind...

The Mark Inside

28/03/2011

Joseph Beuys And Coyote meet "Humanitarian" Bombing Campaigns. In Berlin, Germany, in early 1939, at Friedrichstrasse railway station, shortly before the outbreak of the Second World War,...

Connan Mockasin – Forever Dolphin Love

16/03/2011

When the going gets weird… Once or twice in the space of an aeon, something or someone enters the musical multiverse that is so completely bizarre that you’re not sure whether it’s...

Gruff Rhys – Hotel Shampoo

09/03/2011

An album that was given all the breaks yet provided none of the greatness. As a musical mid-life crisis goes, this one is the equivalent of a red sports car and a blonde twenty-two year old...

Evile Machinations

21/02/2011

Guitars being hammered so skillfully by dudes in black and constantly hidden behind a blaze of swirling hair, living every thrasher’s dream. Sundays aren’t generally my favourite days for...

Martin Simpson – The Green Note

31/01/2011

A guitarist, a storyteller and a legend walked into a bar. This is no joke, this is Martin Simpson. He held the room with his words, singing about rebellion, war and romance. We travelled the world...

RadioSeed – There Has To Be More

26/01/2011

Happy, clappy ambience is one thing but There Has To Be More. Hence why RadioSeeds’s soft electronic debut is something of a mixed bag. An album with enough foresight can really give you an...

Prodigy vs Mutiny: Art’s Promising Future? Pt. Two

24/01/2011

This review is the second chapter in my critical assessment, Part 1 examined Future Map 10, a pretentious and ostentatious shindig overly concerned with prestige. In this second chapter I am...

Davide Tiso: Millions of Melodies Erupting

15/01/2011

Davide Tiso is the inspired creative mind behind Ephel Duath as well as the truly progressive Manuscripts Don't Burn, why then isn’t he a household name in metal? During his...

To Cast A Shadow – In Memory Of

10/01/2011

To Cast A Shadow - In Memory Of...

Andreya Triana – Far Closer

17/12/2010

Mixes by Mr Scruff and Tokimonsta Ninja Tune, 7th Feb 2011 Bonobo’s soul-songstress-for-hire and the voice that brings Flying Lotus down to earth, Andreya Triana has attempted to place herself...

Boy Mandeville – Mo Skrib, Launch Party

16/12/2010

Boy Mandeville – Mo Skrib, Launch Party. Three unsigned bands plucked, strummed and beat this EP launch party into a well intended frolic of Shoreditch posers. ...

Fen – Epoch

10/12/2010

(Code666 Feb2011) Shouted whispers across a hunter’s field. Epoch is the intense third release for this English quartet that owes as much to Alan Moore as it does to King Crimson. This is a...

Minor Yetis to Major Cranes

09/12/2010

Minor Yetis to Major Cranes. Looking for art in London’s late night galleries....

For Sale: Future Trophy Wife

06/12/2010

Parents to clamp down on the sexy child market. The UK Government is setting up a governing body to assess and prevent over-sexualisation of children in marketing, advertising and product sales....

Gabby Young and Other Animals – The Tabernacle, Notting Hill

01/12/2010

“We’re all in this together”, World Connection records. 20th November 2010. I first encountered Gabby Young and Other Animals at Glastonbury 2010, one of those wandering encounters...

Working Hard Outside the Box With Lingua

20/11/2010

"It's a think piece about a mid level band struggling with their own limitations in the harsh face of stardom" – Almost Famous. Lingua are an intriguing band from Sweden. Catching...

Manuscripts Don’t Burn – The Breathing House

12/11/2010

Fans of standard song structures might argue this album away as a talented wank project of a successful guitarist (Ephel Duath) left to his own narcissistic devices. But what do they know....

Lingua – All My Rivals Are Imaginary Ghosts

06/11/2010

Aural Music (2010) Mixing the harder edge of Indie guitar with the soaring vocals of mid-era Depeche Mode Swedish rockers Lingua have taken the scrawled melodic postcard of At The Drive-in and kept...