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Rewind two years. Hot Chip would have featured on my top songs of the year list. ‘Ready For The Floor’ was an anthem, and the band could do no wrong in the eyes of many. ‘Made In The Dark’ is still one of my favourite albums and their previous effort ‘The Warning’ which featured classics [...]
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New Joanna Newsom gets continually more exciting
“Have One on Me”, out February 23rd on Drag City will ring in at no less than 3CDs and/or 3LPs.
Eluvium adds vocals, courts controversy
New album, “Similes”, adds some singing into the mix of the ambient fan-favourite. Out February 23rd on Temporary Residence Limited.
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Hello and welcome to another week of musical intrigue.
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Bright Eyes/Neva Dinova split re-issue on Saddle Creek in March
Omaha’s Saddle Creek Records are re-issueing the excellent EP by Bright Eyes and the massively underrated Neva Dinova. Bonus tracks and vinyl and other temptations. Pre-order.
The new Efterklang album is a bit different
It is. But Efterklang are pretty [...]
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Welcome to the first edition of Luke’s column about all things Indie Music. We’re going to try this as a weekly job, and as always appreciate your honest feedback.
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New Joanna Newsom album scheduled for February
Indie kids rejoiced with the news that harpist, Joanna Newsom’s, third full-length, “Have One on Me”, will be released February 23rd [...]
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People make an awful lot of fuss about Vampire Weekend. Before releasing their first album they had already amassed a huge following of fanatics, and as many detractors. Their new album, Contra, was released on January 11th and like any second album has the difficult task of building on their previous work while trying for [...]
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Over the past couple of years it has been the “straight-edge” punk scene that has brought me the most pleasure and taken up the majority of my time and money. However, I’d still be the first to admit that it all too frequently veers towards the formulaic and predictable. With their third full length, and [...]
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Various – Joan of Arc Presents: Don’t Mind Control (Polyvinyl #191)
It’s been another good year for the Joan of Arc dynasty. In April I proclaimed their latest record, Flowers (Polyvinyl #176) to be “either a joke or the greatest piece of musical genius of the year” – I’ve since decided it’s the latter. JoA alumni [...]
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Ólafur Arnalds – Dyad 1909 (Erased Tapes #19)
There appears to be a trend emerging for December producing real musical gems. Squeezing in just before the new year and just after all the “best of” lists have been finished. Icelandic wünderkind, Ólafur Arnalds’ second release of 2009, the soundtrack to the Wayne McGregor choreographed ballet, Dyad [...]
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I’ll be honest, I’m not very fond of Christmas. The hype takes its toll on me by mid-Decemeber and I’m eager to get it over with. This might, however, be my own fault. As a compulsive internet record buyer, I regularly have packages to open. Thus, maybe the appeal has worn off slightly by the [...]
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In a previous article, I wrote about Kickstarter.com; one of the many innovative new ways for bands to raise money in a world of CD sale doom and gloom. Another start-up which I think shows great promise is Gimmesound.
US-based Gimmesound.com takes the iTunes mp3 store model and turns it on its head: offering high quality, [...]
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