Reviews

This Many Boyfriends - This Many Boyfriends
October 4 |

Endorsements don’t come much higher than those from beyond the grave.

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Lights Out Asia - Hy-Brasil
October 3 |

Tim Clarke runs the rule over the latest (and maybe not greatest) Lights Out Asia.

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Birds Of Maya - Ready To Howl
September 24 |

“a ridiculously high-octane document of elemental force”

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Carlton Melton - Photos Of Photos
September 19 |

Recorded in a geodesic dome, no less.

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Dum Dum Girls - End Of Daze EP
September 18 |

“Girls, it would seem it’s your move from here.”

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A.R.Kane – Complete Singles Collection
September 16 |

A collection that needs no further explanation than it’s own title. But Brett Spaceman offers one anyway.

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Crisopa – Biodance
September 13 |

Promising debut from Spanish electronica act.

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Cat Power - Sun
September 12 |

“back it would seem to put contemporaries in their place.”

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Animal Collective - Centipede Hz
September 11 |

Red On Black unveils Animal Collective’s “brilliant failure”.

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Thee Oh Sees - Putrifiers II
September 6 |

“effortless, creative and genuine” stuff from a man “born to do nothing but rock”

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Bill Fay - Life Is People
September 5 |

A master songwriter at work.

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Dexys - One Day I'm Going To Soar
September 4 |

Excellent comeback from Rowland and Co.

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Get Well Soon - The Scarlet Beast O’Seven Heads
September 3 |

Welcome to “this busy and highly idiosyncratic world.”

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Swans - The Seer
August 29 |

“Maybe it’s time to start referencing Swans on their own terms – as true originals.”

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Yeasayer - Fragrant World
August 28 |

Fragrant World sounds like a band struggling with their identity”

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Stephen Hummel – Meld
August 24 |

Electro wizz goes pop.

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Delicate Steve - Positive Force
August 21 |

Mostly all Positive, but isn’t quite “strong enough to punch its way out of the confines of the headphone genre.”

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OMBRE - Believe You Me
August 20 |

Believe You Me is a document capturing the sounds of two alien worlds attempting to communicate”

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Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - Mature Themes
August 13 |

“The world needs people like Pink to be making records like Mature Themes”

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Shawn Lee - Synthesizers In Outer Space.
August 10 |

Acid jazz/funk “work of a beats craftman”

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PS I Love You - Death Dreams
August 9 |

“the Kingston, Ontario duo seemed to have finally nailed it” … or have they?

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Bombay Bicycle Club – A Different Kind Of Fix
August 8 |

Getting harder to categorise …

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Amber Spyglass - Breathing in Essence
August 7 |

Sprawling, incoherent etheral, Goth folk EP

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Codeine – Frigid Stars, Barely Real and The White Birch reissues
August 6 |

Reissue for seminal slowcore act said to have influenced Mogwai.

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Swordfishtrombones – Aftertaste
August 2 |

Czech act recall the bravery and style of dEUS.

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Man Without Country - Foe
August 1 |

The next great synthpop band?

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Duke Special – Oh Pioneer
July 29 |

Irish singer, songwriter evokes The Divine Comedy plus other luminaries.

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Mere – Mere
July 28 |

“serpentine, smoky, and sometimes scary”

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Light Asylum - Light Asylum
July 24 |

“feeding on scraps in between masterpieces could soon get very frustrating.”

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Twin Shadow - Confess
July 16 |

“ … it’s like he’s bathed in Paco Rabanne.”

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