“there’s a masterful swagger to the record, a very knowing grasp of subjunctive imagery and a torrent of mimesis running right through...”; release – 2010
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“getting dressed up and going to town (in clothes that don’t match)...”; release – 2010
More / (20.08.10)
“their third album proves that whatever it was that first launched arcade fire into the stratosphere, that unknown element that has made them so popular yet allowed them to retain their credibility (the holy grail for all bands?), they haven’t lost it quite yet...”; release – 2010
More / (19.08.10)
“it’s almost overly clever in its quality, but also in its warmth...”; release – 2010
More / (19.08.10)
“shaggy-haired singer chris turpin resembles a fresh faced x-factor hopeful more than a gravel-throated neo-bluesman, but any band named after a blind willie mctell track are likely to have rather broader horizons...”
More / (18.08.10)
“t.p.o.b.p.a.h. have never been abashed about wearing their influences on their sleeves , but with his floppy fringe and ludicrously oversized stripy sweater, singer kip even looks like his heroes these days - tonight, a dead spit of ride's mark fardener in his early nineties pomp...
More / (17.08.10)
royksopp, klaxons, missy elliot, wild dogs and hunky men...read on for the second part of adam hartley's review of this years exit festival
More / (21.07.10)
“there is absolutely nothing anyone can find that will define this beautifully bizarre act as anything other than wholly compelling...”
More / (14.07.10)
“a seemingly more considered, pop sensible affair which has, to an extent, pushed the layers of distortion to the back burner...”; release – 2010
More / (27.08.10)
“the kind of thing that cher would write if she were actually a castle-dwelling gargoyle, and didn't just look like one...”; release – 2010
More / (26.08.10)
“acts as victory lap for those care free days when the sun still had his hat on...”; release – 2010
More / (26.08.10)
“the band emanate sex like the peeled wallpaper and rope-burn of a dirty hotel...”; release – 2010
More / (25.08.10)
local (devon) musician seth lakeman kindly drops in on sunday to apply his boy-band looks to folk, whilst elsewhere human league and friendly fires entertain the costumed masses.
More / (15.08.10)
today sees rockfeedback's tom hocknell reviewing the saturday delights camp bestival had to offer - namely hurts, madness and the cuban brothers. enjoy.
More / (14.08.10)
camp bestival is now firmly established in most festival goers’ brains as bestival’s little cousin; unless you are between 2 and 10, in which case this place is heaven on earth, so we sent out own tom hocknell off to see what earthly delights he can have.
More / (13.08.10)
“there’s a certain knowing simplicity at the heart of the festival, there’s no attempt here to make things difficult for the sake of expansion and to appear more interesting – bigger doesn’t necessarily mean better and this something blissfields has clearly taken into account...”
More / (12.08.10)
“the cameras glide across the stage with an elegance that feels poetic. it was like watching one of those really epic wildlife documentaries where even though i know it’s just a zebra or something, I still feel a bit emotional...”
More / (26.08.10)
“some are still crying whenever they open the fridge and see a pot of jam, and some will forever continue to do so...”
More / (05.11.09)
“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…”
More / (27.10.09)
"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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