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Track: Nice Biscuit – Goodbye, Luya plus tour news

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Track: Underground Lovers – The Passer-by, plus album news

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Album Review : Landing’s ‘Bells In New Towns’

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Back in late August we were helped into autumnal slumber by the gentle swells of “Feel This Way”.  Seattle, Washington’s Tangerine are back in action this month with a new single.  Lead track “Nothing Better” premiered through MTV’s Buzzworthy in late March and there’s plenty to justify that level of endorsement. That same sense of …

Today I have been enjoying the new video for “Paper Cage” by backseatmafia.com faves’ Just Lions’.  You can follow an increasingly threatened lead singer Chandler Strutz being chased through Oregon City by his paper creations.  Rotoscoped (or some such technique) alterna-Chandlers, brought to life by blue Bic biro, it would seem, are hunting our brave hero …

Sometimes it does what it says on the tin – but elsewhere track sequencing and the mix mean that this album ultimately frustrates. Joan Wasser is not alone as an artist whose first shot at a full-length remains their best some years later. “Real Life” is an excellent LP and still easily bosses “To Survive” …

Take this as an early spring shot in the arm.  Your day needs Pool. Super-tight, crisp disco/funk that melds the snap and crackle of Electric Six’s camper moments, and the arty angular indie-pop of Franz Ferdinand into a beguiling, morning glory-inducing hit of energy and excitement.  Plus, check the bassist’s shoes.

A slower slice of troubling hip-hop, following the paranoid claustrophobia of “100”.  NYC’s new rap heroes mix it up with London’s King Krule. The video for “So Sick Stories” puts Ratking and their British guest in a set of nondescript, alienating, brutalistic urban locales. Their cross to bear is one of sadness, anger, listlessness, lived …

Turns out that this is exactly what I needed this Thursday night: gentle, wistful electro-pop, and an aqua-aerobics video to boot. Midwest Disco indeed. Des Moines, Iowa is something of a celebrated town.  And it isn’t just that it’s one of the insurance company capitals of the world; it’s also because it’s a town that …

Openly gay rappers are as rare as openly gay footballers and both fields are all the poorer for the forces that preserve their prejudices.  New Yorker, Le1f, is one artist and producer trying to correct this imbalance, and making progress, judging from his recent appearance on Letterman two weeks ago. His most recent release (following the …

It doesn’t seem two minutes since fresh faced Scottish indie rockers The Twilight Sad released their debut album Fourteen Autumns & Fifteen Winters. Taking their name from Wilfred Owens ‘The War Poems’ (sleep mothered them; and left the twilight sad) there was always something dark and emotional about the band. Fourteen Autumns and Fifteen Winters …

I’ve got to hold my hand up – I’m one of them. ‘Them’ being crate diggers, or record collectors / sound experimenters. I have a (mental) list of records I would come close to selling my house for, most of which are obscure Jazz and Punk and Northern Soul Records. For DJ, producer, record label …

Out today on DFA records is the new, second album from Dublin’s Marcus Lambkin aka Shit Robot. Recorded in Germany and New York, the record features a whole load of guests, including LCD Soundsystem‘s Nancy Whang, Museum of Love and Luke Jenner from The Rapture, plus comedian Reggie Watts, hip-house hero Lidell Townsell and also …