Grammatics’ debut longplayer ranks high amongst the label’s most impressive releases to date. There could be few better ways to celebrate the greatest new musical talent our nation has to offer the world.
Music: Features
Your New Favourite Band!: Part 14 – Mawkin:Causley
Together, Mawkin:Causley provide the ultimate folkie’s dream – cracking tunes and a voice to give some of the oldest songs in the tradition a new interpretation.
Live Reviews
International HEALTH Service
HEALTH are more obsessed with violent, epileptic noises than any other band since the era of grunge.If you were amongst those who witnessed My Bloody Valentine’s reunion shows last summer, simply imagine their atonal aural onslaught turned up to eleven, and then some more.
Music: Reviews
Joe and Will Ask? – Mongozo!
There may even be a good full album in these guys, difficult to find in the dance scene.
Album Reviews
Lov Is An Unfamiliar Name
Lov’s voice, like a broken-hearted Juanita Stein lends itself perfectly to this well rounded, late night rumination on lost, but never forgotten love.
Album Reviews
Fabricated Rhythms
Filthy Dukes – Nonsense in the Dark (Universal/Fiction Records) 4.5/6.0 March 16th, 2009 Fed up with filling dance floors at Fabric, DJs Olly Dixon and Tim Lawton teamed up with producer Mark Ralph to make their own music instead of remixing other people’s. The result is the dirty, grime-trodden, sweat-drenched electro-indie sound of a band [...]
Live Reviews
When Worlds Collide
Tunng with Tinariwen Manchester Academy 2 Friday March 20th, 2009 It’s pretty certain much of the crowd packing into Academy 2 tonight have little idea of what to expect as the Tunng and Tinariwen show rolls into town. Even the wide reaching hand of the world wide web doesn’t reveal much of what the two [...]
Music: Features
Video Of The Moment: Eels return…in monochrome…with beards
Give it up now! Motel readers across the interweb sea, rejoice! Eels are returning with a dozen new songs in the form of their forthcoming album entitled Hombre Loco, due for release in a couple of months’ time. They have put together a short promotional video to this effect in glorious, er, monochrome.
Live Reviews
Frightened Rabbit- Liver! Lung! FR!
Frightened Rabbit – Liver! Lung! FR! (Fat Cat Records) March 30th, 2009 5.0/6.0 Frightened Rabbit take a break from work on new material to provide their fans with a reworked rendition of last year’s Midnight Organ Fight, recorded live at Glasgow’s Captain’s Rest in the summer. And for the masses who’ve taken the bighearted foursome [...]
Music: Reviews
Animal Collective – My Girls
Animal Collective – My Girls (Domino Records) March 23rd, 2009 5.2/6.0 Forecasted as the best album of 2009 by many critics, Merriweather Post Pavilion is consistent with Animal Collective’s ever-changing, indefinable sound. Lead single My Girls is more accessible than the avant-garde rock the Baltimore group have released previously. The minimalist lyrics achieve a rejection [...]