This record is aimed squarely at “Girls”, what with its whispered confidences and wine-bottle-by-the-sofa moralising.
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Baltic Fleet – Towers
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.
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Believo! – Hard to Find
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.
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Retro Retry 2: Another Another Green World
…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.
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Deerhoof – Breakup Song
So there you have it, the new Deerhoof LP. They just keep making great records, and have done ever since Rob Fisk’s time.
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Inner City Grit Presents – Labasheeda WaveZero Vagelein & Vonnegut – Paradiso, Amsterdam, 1/9/2012
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.
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Subbacultcha! Presents: Spilt Milk, Mike Koldin, Treehouse – De Nieuwe Anita, Amsterdam 25/08/12
More worryingly who’s next in line for the Beau Monde to gush over, Colonel Abrahams? The Reynolds Sisters?
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Incendiary’s guide to Incubate 2012
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?
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Incendiary go to Haldern 2012 Part Three
I’m paraphrasing here but one line the girl bawled out, “My boyfriend likes me from behind/and you know I don’t mind” actually got the crowd hollering and bouncing along, it was extraordinary.
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Incendiary go to Haldern 2012 Part Two
“A guy crowdsurfs through a sea of balloons with a George Michael mask. This is Diagrams, this shouldn’t be happening. They’re going bananas and it seems Mr Michael impersonator isn’t ever going to come down”.