No longer difficult, or cussed, or looking to smash down walls, Space Siren have decided to dwell in a time of their own. And it really suits them.
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Franz Ferdinand, Rats on Rafts, Paradiso Amsterdam 12/6/14
I could easily sum this gig up by saying, Franz turned up and played all their popular tracks and big singles to a packed crowd and made everyone happy. I mean that’s what they do.
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Incendiary go to Best Kept Secret 2014
Somewhere the woods, Rock’s old spirit sat communing with the lions and giraffes, wondering what its new guise should be.
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Knollen en Citroenen 2 Multiplex and SUB071, Leiden 7/6/14
Why they agreed that wearing silver costumes on stage that look utterly off their heads was a good idea – in an “extended” Cosmic Joker/ your mates dressed as Earth Wind and Fire at a New Year’s Eve Party / acid head hospital patients kinda way – is beyond me.
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WOLVON, Nouveau Velo, Tijger Salto, OT301 Amsterdam 4/6/14
See, WOLVON aren’t just this gonzoid bunch of Northerners whose sound reflects the fact that they wouldn’t know how to eat olives.
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Petrels and Talvihorros, The Generator, Leiden 30/5/14
It’s good to know that The Generator could add something genuinely different (musically, or in ambience, if nothing else) to Leiden.
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Amen Dunes – Love
Damon McMahon comes on like Van the Man on Astral Weeks; wild, unhinged, preaching but seemingly vulnerable; working out stuff as he goes along.
Richard’s Record Review June 2014 Part The First
A new Lust for Youth record! Before you wrap yourself up in your greatcoat and button up the top button of your last clean / dirty grey shirt, let me warn you; this one feels a lot more poppy.
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MecanoUn-Ltd – Erector Set Rebuilt
In any case Dirk Polak could sing over the top of an insurance advert and make it sound as if he was discussing Camus with his mates in the pub.
Sunwølf – Beholden to Nothing and No One
So, a wipe out of a listen; a right mix of things, but really great. Beholden to Nothing and No One lives up to its title in that the record is all-enveloping, something that could completely take over if you let it.