Archive for the ‘LPs’ Category
Sunday, March 15th, 2009
Projekt A-Ko are a three piece band from Scotland. They are also three former members of Urusei Yatsura who released some cracking records in the mid to late 1990s. Projekt A-Ko released a spilt single last year with indiepop fuzzy favourites Horowitz (both songs are included here, possibly re-recorded). It's ...
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Saturday, March 7th, 2009
This LP originally came out in the UK on Filthy Little Angels. I missed it. I got this copy via the label that is releasing the CD in the USA - Series Two Records.
Lonely Boy is a collaboration between Anthony Harding (music) and Eivind Kirkeby (words). After a couple of ...
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Wednesday, March 4th, 2009
Sin Fang Bous is one man, Sindri, from Iceland. He's released a rather wonderful little LP called 'Clangour' on Morr Music. The LP varies in approach between electro pop - like opening song 'Advent Inivesga' which has a hypnotic glitchy feel and a sparser folk-tronica feel - which shines through ...
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Wednesday, March 4th, 2009
Matt over on Scatterbrain decided to make a compilation. It's lovely. With songs by The Pains of Being Pure At Heart, Knight School, Brown Recluse Sings, Horowitz, The Parallelograms and The Garlands amongst the 14 songs on offer. It's essential to these pop years. The sleeve is fab, too. Buy ...
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Sunday, February 1st, 2009
Glasgow's Butcher Boy return with their 2nd LP, again, on London's How Does It Feel To Be Loved? record label.
The band are led by John Blain Hunt and it's his intelligent lyrical song writing that makes you sit up and take notice when you slip 'React Or Die' into your ...
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Monday, January 26th, 2009
Downdime are another impressive band on the Squirrel Records roster. Their début LP has just been released and even features an original Manhattan Love Suicide Eddy Lines on skin pounding duties. Whereas the Manhattans take their perfect melodies and press it through a fuzz filter - Downdime are all about ...
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Sunday, January 25th, 2009
The Sunday Reeds are a duo from Melbourne in Australia. The band site bands like The Jesus and Mary Chain, The Velvet Underground, Pixies and The Beach Boys among their influences. I can hear the Reid brothers early rock'n'roll blueprint on the songs on the bands ...
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Saturday, January 24th, 2009
The Charade are the veterans of the Swedish indie pop scene with members being around in one guise or another (Happydeadmen, Red Sleeping Beauty, The Shermans) for over twenty years now. On their third album Keeping Up Appearances they stick with the classic indie pop template that has served them ...
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Saturday, January 17th, 2009
I've had this LP on fairly heavy rotation for the past week and I am starting to fall for it in a rather big way. At 20 songs and just over an hour in length - it's rather on the long side and I usually can't take LPs that go ...
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Friday, January 16th, 2009
Sheffield continues to churn out a wealth of new bands and that could mean that some don’t get the attention they deserve – the Interiors deserve your attention! They play spiky power pop that is hugely listenable. Imagine The Pixies joining ranks with The B-52’s, which might sound a bit ...
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