Suu often sounds like some high gloss mid-eighties record – the sort of Art of Noise mash up, albeit that bit weirder, more in tune with the whacked out world of the Residents; a high gloss chart-bound Residents.
Islaja – Suu
Sangre De Muerdago / Novemthree – Braided Paths
A magical dark folk record that’s certainly worth your time, especially if you are feeling meditative.
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Blood of the Bull – Bend Over
It’s this feeling of elegant, Bohemian chamber pop; the sound of suede and crushed velvet and absinthe in the afternoon.
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Quimper – Two Magpies
Two Magpies slips and slides all over the place; check out the disorientating rhythms on the title track – it’s like an elfin, modern take on Ruth White’s Flowers of Evil.
The Probes – Synesthesia
Now, normally I have a real issue with listening to bands that look like lad bands. They pop up as if freshly baked off a conveyor belt. Imagine; every day, different trainers. Bleugh.
WOTNXT and Narrominded present – Knollen en Citroenen, Qbus, Leiden 12/4/14
One minute bone splintering noise, the next a Spanish loon wearing boxing gloves miming to Beyoncé.
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Mecano UnLtd, Rotown, Rotterdam 13/4/14
No, it seems that Mecano (Un-Ltd) have come back from lord only know where, with a sort of Bismarckian determination to ensure that they are remembered, and put back on the cultural map.
Katadreuffe, Spoelstra, Naive Set, Patronaat, Haarlem 5/4/14
Some people came in from the main hall to catch Karadreuffe. Why, I don’t know. Maybe they thought their deodorant & Lush product scene was also happening in the café… well more fool they!
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The King Ayisoba Band, Zea, Oscar Jan Hoogland 28/3/14
What to expect from the mighty Ayisoba? We’d seen him having a fag outside whilst leaning on a ruddy great stick with an animal head on it, so we thought “nope this won’t be your average meat and two veg gig”.
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Incendiary eat scones – again – with Henk Koorn of Hallo Venray
And this record, it was very… tense, very… because I didn’t wanna give it away.
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