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Lady Gaga – The Fame Monster

“lady gaga is a critically acclaimed, rilke-quoting, tisch school of the arts-educated performance artist who’s made music that is meant to sound like ace of base...”; release – 2010

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Quasi – American Gong (Domino)

“what really sets this above a straight up punk rock album is the lyrical magic of coomes, who has evolved over the years into a sort of punk rock robert lowell...”; release - 2010

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Lightspeed Champion – Life Is Sweet! Nice To Meet You (Domino)

“Hynes' voice is pitched in a bizarre middle ground somewhere between the puny nasal whine of David Tattersall, frontman of none-more-indie bed-sit languishers The Wave Pictures, and Croydon soul man David Mcalmont...”; release – 2010

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Owl City – Ocean Eyes (Island)

ocean eyes has seemingly come from nowhere, and is so eager to please you want to push it away after the first song before it slobbers on your trousers...”; release - 2010

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Gigs [rss]

The xx – Komedia, Brighton – 1/3/5

perhaps they are nervous, perhaps it’s a conscious decision, but as with so much of the xx’s music, the beauty – of which there is plenty and which none dissipates live – comes from the unsaid, the implied, and the wordlessly understood...”

More / (09.03.10)

Pontiak & White Hills – Engine Rooms, Brighton – 6/3/10

there’s no styling, no regard for what’s ‘on trend’, and no compromise. pontiak and white hills need applauding for that. whoever booked them a tour together is a genius...”

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The Antlers – O2 Academy, Oxford – 4/3/10

“it was like having the universe downsized, laid out on the stage, and having it display its steady, silent, morbid expansion...”

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First Aid Kit – The Jericho, Oxford – 3/3/10

“their voices are usually beautiful, but tonight they come and go in trembles of oddity and self-doubt...”

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Singles & EPs [rss]

Girls – Morning Light (True Panther)

“intensely emotive, the pop-y haze deserves to be soaked up under glorious sunshine, preferably anywhere that isn’t the miserable u.k., please...”; release – 2010

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Eugene and the Lizards - Bugjuice / I Want Some Action (Domino)

“eugene mcguiness, if he wants one, is on track for a long, and fascinating career...”; release – 2010

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Gorillaz – Stylo (feat. Mos Def & Bobby Womack) (Parlophone)

“bobby womack’s vocals bring the whole thing to a quietly dramatic crescendo signed off perfectly by mos def’s last few bars of fuzzy broadcast…”; release – 2010

More / (18.02.10)

tUnE-YaRdS – Real Live Flesh (4AD)

“garbus’ music portrays a brainstorm of styles, discretely utilising musical aptitude in an apparently ramshackle but evidently intelligent manner...”; release – 2010

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Festivals [rss]

Ten Years of All Tomorrow’s Parties Festival – Butlins, Minehead – 13/12/09 [PART 3]

more shellac, more sunn O))), the magic band, deerhoof, devendra banhart and the mars volta close our atp.  is it may yet?

More / (29.01.10)

Ten Years of All Tomorrow’s Parties Festival – Butlins, Minehead – 12/12/09 [PART 2]

tom and tim(baland) cast a discerning eye over david pajo, afrirampo, om, shellac, battles, the melvins, modest mouse, the for carnation and sunn o)))

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Ten Years of All Tomorrow’s Parties Festival – Butlins, Minehead – 11/12/09 [PART 1]

in which tim and tom capture stephen malkmus, j mascis and the fog, the yeah yeah yeahs, six organs of admittance, f**k buttons and tortoise.

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Sŵn – Various Venues, Cardiff – 23-25/10/09

“we all crept off into the night at around 4am for even more adventures and with memories of sŵn 2009 firmly burnt onto the surface of our hearts...”; release – ‘09

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DVDs, Books & Others [rss]

Michael Jackson – This Is It [FILM]

“some are still crying whenever they open the fridge and see a pot of jam, and some will forever continue to do so...”

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Nirvana Live at Reading – DVD Screening

“while bands such as pavement and the pixies (who undeniably had a big influence on nirvana) get back on the road, this dvd is sadly the closest nirvana fans will get to reliving what it was like to see them play live…”

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The National - A Skin, A Night and The Virginia EP (Beggars Banquet)

"as it turns out this is not your traditional "on the road/in the studio/talk about the band's history" documentary... the filmmaking is such that a mere passing interest in music, or indeed film itself, will suffice: as far as music documentaries go it's one of the more absorbing. ..." release - '08

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Kaada & Patton - Live (Ipecac)

"does mike patton really know what he is doing? or does he just constantly find himself in these weird situations?..."; release - '07

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