23 Skidoo: 8/10 Review in Uncut (Posted By Harry)
23 Skidoo in Uncut 23 Skidoo ‘Seven Songs’ (LTM) Out on 2nd April 2012. LTM is proud to announce a deluxe limited edition double vinyl reissue of Seven Songs, the seminal debut album by 23 Skidoo, originally released in February 1982. Originally released on Fetish Records as a mini album, Seven Songs topped the indie … Read more
By The Sea: NME’s Radar Tip Of The Day 118
By The Sea: NME’s Radar Tip Of The Day 118 By The Sea Dell’orso/ The Great Pop Supplement We’re pleased to announce that By The Sea are NME’s Radar Tip Of The Day. One to watch out for sure. NME Radar Tip Of The Day 118: By The Sea – Matt Wilkinson “By The Sea … Read more
Chairlift in The Times (Posted By Harry)
Chairlift Everyone’s talking about. The Times Chairlift “Something” (Young Turks) Their new album evokes Kate Bush, Talk Talk, Cocteau Twins and fellow New Yorkers MGMT and Yeasayer Why Ambitious, left-field pop is trilling from all corners of the globe at the moment, be it the outlandish melodies of the Belgian-Australian star Gotye or the hypnotic … Read more
Dominant Legs in NME’s 10 Best Pop Songs 2011
Dominant Legs ‘Hoop of Love’ best pop song 2011 pick in NME 10 Best Pop Songs Of The Year: NME #9 Dominant Legs, ‘Hoop Of Love’ (Lefse) “A massive guitar hooky smile of a song from the sometime compadres of Girls, ‘Hoop..’ sounded like some sort of lost Rough Trade single from the mid 80s, … Read more
The Field in NME’s Best Albums Of 2011 (Posted By Harry)
The Field #28 in NME‘s Best Albums List 2011 The Field ‘Looping State Of Mind’ (Kompakt) “When attention spans are increasingly shot to pieces, Axle Wilner makes music that circumnavigates the Tumblr-numbed brained, turning instead into some natural, eternal rhythm. On ‘Looping…’ he perfected his style of rich techno fastidiously built from loops of sound. … Read more
Walls ‘Coracle’ gets an 8 in NME (Posted By Harry)
Walls in NME Walls ‘Coracle’ (Kompakt) Album Review in NME – 8 “London – based Walls duo Sam Willis and Alessio Natalizia put journos in floatation tanks to experience their new album ‘Coracle’; it was a cunning ruse for a record whose luminous soundscapes are at once alien yet familiar, adding hazy heartbeat rhythms to … Read more
The Field gets nice NME & Mixmag Reviews (Posted By Harry)
The Field reviewed in NME and Mixmag The Field ‘Looping State Of Mind’ (Kompakt) 8/10 Review in NME “It’s expansively, ecstatically excellent for many of the same reasons as The Field’s previous two blissful, loop-based hymns, at the intersection between shoegazing, trance and minimal techno…But these seven tracks, which average nine minutes apiece, contains moves … Read more
The Field in NME’s “10 Tracks You Have To Hear This Week” (Posted By Harry)
The Field in NME‘s “10 Tracks You Have To Hear This Week” The Field – ‘Then It’s White’ “Another swinging hypnotist’s watch of a track from the Kompakt wunderkind, this cut from forthcoming LP ‘Looping State Of Mind’ compresses all the compulsive repetition of his previous into just under eight minutes and adds Fridge-esque vocal … Read more
Walls ‘Sunporch’ Review in NME (Posted By Harry)
Walls ‘Sunporch’ Review in NME Walls ‘Sunporch’ release date 29.08.11 on Kompakt. When a review starts with the words “Shit the bed”, you know you’re most likely onto a winner. Jo Fuertes-Knight almost can’t believe where Walls has been all her life in the short, succinct and brilliant review in NME. “I listened to this … Read more
Unknown Mortal Orchestra NME review (Posted by Harry)
Unknown Mortal Orchestra Album Review True Panther Fantastic Album Review, read it here in NME 8/10 “Most people sleep in their bedrooms. Some, like Ruban Nielson, create genius albums in them. The Portland based Kiwi’s confessed ‘hobby’ is almost unwillingly accomplished, a scruff blend of shuffling funk and psych nostalgia that feels a lot more … Read more
