This is angry and aggressive, but if I lived in Belgium I’d probably produce music like this just to convince the rest of Europe that we’re not all bureaucrats.
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Incendiary go to Metropolis 7/7/13
Incendiary speak to CNdY
“It’s really about a new experience for Chinese people, whether that’s through drugs or something else – something like our music.”
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British Sea Power – Bitterzoet, Amsterdam, 25th June 2013
it’s obvious British Sea Power are not the band they used to be. No. They’re better than that. Far better.
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Neil Young & Crazy Horse – Metroradio Arena, Newcastle, England, June 8th 2013
What’s the point in going to see anybody else. Ever?
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Graveyard Tapes- Our Sound is Our Wound
If the sound offered by Graveyard Tapes really is ‘their wound’, then it’s an oozy, self-inflicted gash reeking of antiseptic and self-loathing. Let’s hope it doesn’t heal
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PAS Musique – Abandoned Bird Egg and Kine – Meditations in April Green
Both these records are uncompromising, but neither revel in obscurity: and PAS Musique’s brilliant Abandoned Bird Egg is one record you really have to listen to.
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Future Bible Heroes – Partygoing
…John Shuttleworth practising his Casio chops in Johnny Minton’s flat, the North Sea ferry act Anthony H Wilson would have booked on the spot, Soft Cell turning up as the new entertainers in Hi de Hi
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Justin Walter – Lullabies and Nightmares
Suffice to say I think this release is tops, the gloopy, gluey sound is mired in a sort of ambient analogue fug, furring up the sonic arteries with a glut of wibbling synths and something called an Electronic Valve Instrument.
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