REVIEWS
Album reviews
The headline name in About Group may be Hot Chip’s Alexis Taylor but don’t...
It's no exaggeration to say there's been something of a love affair growing over the past few years with a throwback surf-meets-garage punk sound, a movement that's seen Brooklyn all-girl trio...
The self-titled debut LP from NYC production duo Holy Ghost! has been a long time coming. Nick Millhiser and Alex Frankel released their first single,...
Whichever way you look at it, the lo-fi scene has been exploding of late. Acts like Woods,...
It’s hard to believe Low have been around for almost two decades now. Arriving purposefully hushed and sombre in the early nineties,...
Four years on from the relative breakthrough of All of A Sudden I Miss Everyone – an album that broke the top one hundred in charts on both sides of The Atlantic – Texan four...
After a long hiatus to pursue many and varied interests that haveincluded Plug and Amen Andrews, Toomorrow sees South Coast electronic stalwart ...
For anyone with fond memories of Lift to Experience and their unhinged quasi-religious concept album The Texas Jeruasalem Crossroads from way back in 2001, this comeback should come as good, if...
A collaboration several years in the making, Diamond Mine sees Kenny Anderson, AKA King Creosote, let Domino Records'...
With the rich heritage of ex-Murder City Devil and Pretty Girls Make Graves man Derek Fudesco as a vital compnent and with two acclaimed full-lengths already in their back pockets (including 2009...
Caught live
Arriving a little late to a Matmos gig is a bit like gatecrashing a college lecture: by the time Ragged Words arrives this evening, Drew Daniel, M.C. Sc...
At a time when guitar-based instrumental music on this island is in such rude health, it's only natural that that genre's electronic cousin should start to pick up the pace and follow the fine exam...
Asobi Seksu’s lengthy journey across The Atlantic from New York City makes their ludicrous 6:40pm stage time more of a slap in the...
If you've heard Josh T. Pearson’s new album, Last of The Country Gentlemen, the last thing you might expect to hear at tonight's gig...
How much do we respect the choices of the artists we purport to respect, admire and, in some cases, love? Is the music fan only dedicated to the artist as long as the musician in question behaves i...
Despite the fact that a packed Vortex had long been sold out prior to his visit, Californian-born, Berlin-based pianist and composer Dustin O'Halloran...
If a textbook were to be written instructing buzz bands on how to stand out from the Hype Machine crowd,...
Last Friday night's...