…listening to King of Heart Attacks and Senseless Trips, you suspect the big joke Sven Agaath plays on us is to make us listen to a messy, bedroom take on Richie Blackmore or Kiss.
The Homesick – Twst yr Wrsts
This is a brilliant pop release, driven by boredom, daydreams, living in a cut n paste Dutch town, and enlivened by a sort of home-brewed sound that is inspiringly, bullishly, tinny and processed.
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André de Saint-Obin – Sound On Sound
But otherwise Sound on Sound sounds as current as something by the Wanda Group or Lee Noble.
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Popronde Haarlem 11/9/2014
I tell you now; if Yuko Yuko ever got managed or advised by someone from Entertainment Land here in the Netherlands, they’d be fucked. Fucked. I’m tempted to go and dig up Tony Wilson and say, “come on love, one more time.”
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Incendiary chew the cud with Ajay Saggar of King Champion Sounds
…you know what; every time I walk into the stadium and I walk up the steps and I hear the crowd, and see the first blades of grass, my heart’s just like… arrrgh! And the same is like walking into a gig. I’m so fucking psyched! Because you get energy from it, you can’t pay for that it’s your lifeblood.
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King Champion Sounds – Songs For the Golden Hour
These new King Champion Sounds tracks DO feel like night time drives round grimy urban centres, and in that are far more wide ranging and multifacetted in scope and ambition than the ones on their breezy debut LP.
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