Month: March 2008

“And who has been listening to Harmonia and Tangerine Dream? ”
Continue reading “Cloudland Canyon – Silver Tongued Sisyphus”

“Maybe its Regina Janssen’s voice that conjures up images of ‘60s Left Bank frippery; whatever, if you don’t feel all warm and cosy after listening to To Be Around there’s no hope for you.”
Continue reading “Donna Regina – More”

“…that cover of Queen & Bowie’s Under Pressure with Michael Gira is an absolute tour de force; and obviously a vast improvement on the original.”
Continue reading “Xiu Xiu – Women as Lovers”

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Continue reading “Christy and Emily – Queen’s Head”

“Every year or so we are treated to a brilliant collection of pop songs; all warm, full of the milk of human kindness and eminently better than the competition around. You can’t help but get frustrated; this fella should be more than a cult. ”
Continue reading “Kelley Stoltz – Circular Sounds”

“You might be a band genuinely enthralled with rock’s glorious and shamanic past, you might be able to re-create 1982 musically and you might release the sort of quality non-crowd pleasing single that hasn’t been seen since Freur’s Doot Doot, but will the kids care?

 

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Continue reading “The Long Blondes – Couples”

“We do try, spending hours and hours plotting on how to get onto the radio, and trying to keep up with developments on these social networking sites, all that and then you go back to the records we’ve made and it’s totally incongruous! ”
Continue reading “Incendiary go on a jolly with the Long Blondes (part two)”

“It’s like we’ve purposefully made a difficult second album and I don’t hear any top ten smashes on there at all. It’s a way of setting our stall out. This album’s job is to point towards the third album. ”
Continue reading “Incendiary go on a jolly with the Long Blondes (part one)”

“Never listen to the words if you want a happy life, that’s the lesson there.”

Continue reading “MGMT – Spectacular Oracular”