Month: September 2012

A fine record and one that is a charming listen. While not pulling up any trees or making any statement about why it should inform this particular zeitgeist is a one you should listen to You’ll probably end up playing it on repeat.
Continue reading “Baltic Fleet – Towers”

Given there are a lot of noisy garage/screamo bands about making slightly abstract, slightly academic records, it will take something more than just leavening out the noise to make them stand out.
Continue reading “Believo! – Hard to Find”

…the collective urge to turn these reflective, carefully constructed instrumentals and slices of ambient avant garde pop into something more hedonistic, urban, chippy and “in yer face” is fairly overwhelming.
Continue reading “Retro Retry 2: Another Another Green World”

So there you have it, the new Deerhoof LP. They just keep making great records, and have done ever since Rob Fisk’s time.
Continue reading “Deerhoof – Breakup Song”

After this a stroll through the Vondelpark, (where naked film students jumped into the park’s pond with gleeful abandon) pondering on a strange night, but in parts a very good one.
Continue reading “Inner City Grit Presents – Labasheeda WaveZero Vagelein & Vonnegut – Paradiso, Amsterdam, 1/9/2012”

More worryingly who’s next in line for the Beau Monde to gush over, Colonel Abrahams? The Reynolds Sisters?
Continue reading “Subbacultcha! Presents: Spilt Milk, Mike Koldin, Treehouse – De Nieuwe Anita, Amsterdam 25/08/12”

This is our list of stuff to do at Incubate! Obviously we’d love you to come to our residency at the Extase – and encamp there over the weekend – but it’s your time and you’ve spent your hard earned on a ticket so who are we to tell you what to do?
Continue reading “Incendiary’s guide to Incubate 2012”