If this fourth album from LA’s oddrockers can sound so noisily exuberant and luminous in colour, we fear for the sanity of people hunting down the others. Chucking everything but kitchen sink...
Some things never date – Red Tab 501s, Buster Keaton’s slapstick, the dry martini and super-slow, heavy-riffing, psych/ drone rock with subsonic bass. Of course, it helps that...
An album involving an extended version of ‘Der Erlkönig’, Goethe’s hallucinatory treatment of child death, is unlikely to make for easy listening – especially, you...
Genre magpies Hot Chip are, philosophically at least, London’s equivalent to LCD Soundsystem (which makes it less surprising that guitarist Al Doyle moonlights in James Murphy’s live...
McCombs’ 2002 ‘Not The Way’ EP promised much, his roughly hewn songs vulnerable and evocative of a damaged America, like Elliott Smith or Sufjan. But his two follow-up albums...
With their preppy severity and Fall-influenced name, These New Puritans could easily be mistaken for the next in the seemingly endless line of post-punk revivalists. This would be slightly unfair....
In their four LPs to date, Washington DC’s heavy psych-rock trio have never failed to bring out the meat-headed Beavis in us, for which we give effusive thanks. Now, however, they’ve...
No one’s better at being Mark E Smith than Mark E Smith – after all, he’s had years of practice – but Daniel Patrick Quinn comes close. His sprechgesang narratives are...
As one third of Field Music, David Brewis makes chamber pop cut with polished ’70s rock and post-hardcore workouts. His own enterprise is both a very different kettle of carp and yet closely...
Comfortable though laurels probably are, no half-decent band should be content to rest on theirs. Despite the fact that diverging from a successful path involves the risk of alienating fans...
