“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)
“give the new songs played in this room another two years and they will be part of the encore, the anthems that surround the next new batch of material...”
More / (13.07.10)
“they recruit a member of the audience to help with ‘forced to love’, as kevin drew freely admits that he finds memorising his own lyrics tricky and needs someone to hold them up for him - enter the most energetic crowd member ever, who is of little help to drew as he spends the duration of the song cavorting about the stage and temporarily becoming the centre of attention...”
More / (08.07.10)
“come the end of this night, despite having spent the past hour being merely feet away from her in the same room, janelle monáe still doesn’t seem human. she seems much better than that...”
More / (02.07.10)
“if you ever hear of dirty projectors passing by your town talking about some finches’ song at an oceanic parking lot, of warholian wigs or something that seems initially equally as obtuse, do not ignore. yield, and be held a lot…”
More / (29.06.10)
"after a trio of albums, it might not quite be make or break time for band of horses, but they'll soon need to speed up to a gallop to avoid a trip to the glue factory..."
More / (17.06.10)
“in the same way no one admits to voting conservative, no one admits to liking keane...”
More / (17.06.10)
“touting visions of what music was - at a time when bands pay too much respect to the square foot of stage beneath their feet - hawthorne might have just redefined what it can be too…”
More / (16.06.10)
“it’s been a long time since a band were so confident of an image so open to ridicule...”; release – 2010
More / (15.06.10)