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The band of tweakers assembled by Box Social mastermind and general Dublin grand vizier of musical disorientation Gerard Duffy have finally got around to releasing something close to full-length. And it's a tape, obviously...
Wolf Parade are meant to be dead now - having followed up the best yelpy indie album of the noughties with the damningly decent At Mount Zoomer, the band should have grabbed a stub for an ATP-curated reunion in 6 years time and gone their separate side-project ways...
You know what Peter Gabriel needed? A trucker 'tache. Lone Wolf creates an admirable Tunng-like folk racket in 'Keep Your Eyes on the Road', and sashaying taster of his 'Devil and I' album on Bella Union. The track's first movement tweets by pleasantly, but it's the swooping close that makes Eyes more compelling than the Sledgehammer tribute vid.
Starting off immediately with thumping drums, Everlasting Light builds up to a bit of a surprise when the vocals are first introduced. Singer Dan Auerbach goes falsetto, coming through in almost an electronic whisper, an interesting, eerie contrast against the giant percussion...
02 June 2010
Featuring song titles like ‘Retard Canard' and lyrics like "The only time I make sense is when...
26 July 2010
Being both an inner-city boy and a post-Neon Bible cynic to the AF cause, you can imagine the...
30 March 2010
Clogs is a joint project masterminded by The National's Padma Newsome and Bryce Dessner that has...
