Dallas Frasca Will Probably Like You Better than Me
Australia is one of the most American countries I’ve ever been to. Ozzies don’t seem shy to admit it though unlike their fellow commonwealth partners in crime Canada. Maybe distance can make the heart grow fonder. So with it’s big gridded cities and vast open spaces comes big gritty rock and vast vicious voices like...
Everything Everything Keep the Sound Man Alive
Sound men at music venues have to listen to so much shit that alongside my sympathy for them I always wonder how aural torture affects their tastes. I’d say they either: Detune their standards until Jedward sound like Marvin Gaye reincarnate. Can pick a cherry from a turdy fog but are so useless at admin...
Mines by Menomena – Many Milliseconds of Aural Pleasure
Portland experimental rockers Menomena have released their new album Mines. It’s absolutely spell-binding. I don’t have much to add over the excellent MusicOMH review of Mines other than this is one of my albums of the year so far. I’m a big fan of experimentalism within pop aesthetics, rather like Yeasayer’s great album Odd Blood. What Menomena...
The Shadow Orchestra Bangs its Drum
Listening to classical cross-over brings me as much pleasure as sitting in my office with the ear piercingly high pitched band saw gradually melting my brain through a single glazed window from the building works over the road. So it was with a certain degree of trepidation after I saw ‘classical music’ as an influence...
Give Me Your Love Florrie
I’m a huge fan of Wired UK – but never have I expected to find decent music within the geek bible. Yet, tucked away in a corner of one of Wired’s pages, I found a snippet about a young British girl they predict will soon be storming all over our charts. Wired are famously prophetic...
Entrepreneurs
Yately – somewhere west of London and near Sandhurst – is the home of Adam Crisp also known as Entrepreneurs. This means Yately could soon be home to one of the greatest producers in the UK. Last year Entrepreneurs gained some recognition with a remix of Marina and the Diamonds - but it seems what’s...
Frame the City not its Museum
Going to Seattle? Don’t go to the music museum. It’s shite. Do eat seafood, rent a boat with fishing rods or take a short drive past evergreen forests for a trip to Microsoft town. Other than the museum I struggle to come up with a reason why you wouldn’t visit Seattle – it’s lovely and also where Nate...
Need a MNDR?
Talented and suave Mark Ronson may be - but subterranean sea deposits can flaunt more charisma than him. Or maybe it was just his way of dealing with another of those irritating as fuck Channel 4 presenters. At least during the most boring interview drawn out on celluloid they managed to play Bang Bang Bang - his latest...
Everybody Hurts
Synths and glam may have been part of my diet as an 80s child but I never totally fell in love with 80s music. It’s only now – and after the main revival of 80s chic has passed that am I coming to appreciate what the decade of decadence produced. Recently I went to Lovebox...
