The Dying Seconds – Kid Logic
Kid Logic is the first single from their delayed-but-soon-to-be-forthcoming second album proper by locals The Dying Seconds. Since releasing their eponymous debut, The Dying Seconds have swelled to a five
OMD – VCR (xx cover)
Having recently heard Kieran Hebden plough through this song in a totally different direction with a recent Fourtet remix, its weird to hear how effective an incredibly straight-laced cover version
The National – Bryce Dessner Interview
Aside from playing guitar with the National, Bryce Dessner has made him name by dipping his talented fingers into a variety of different pies. In between organizing Cincinnati’s MusicNOW Festival,
Not In Love (feat. Robert Smith)
There’s something a little bit dislikeable about Crystal Castles ever since they became embroiled in an internet skirmish about plagiarism of chiptune music and abuse of Creative Commons privileges. I
Games
When Antony Hegarty managed to transform Oneohtrix Point Never’s arpeggiated drone dirge Returnal into a soulful piano dirge a few months ago, it was the first time we realized here
Dirty Sanchez
So you might know Matt Berry from the IT Crowd, but he does music too. With the trademark baritone voice familiar from confrontationally weird boss Douglas Reynholm, he sings songs
Small Craft On A Milk Sea
The dome-headed one is back (and on Warp too) with his first album in five years, and approaching this record one wonders which kind of Brian Eno album this will
Belle and Sebastian Write About Love
The issue with the modern day Belle and Sebastian is that they won notebook-scribbling, tea-drinking, glasses-wearing hearts in the first place for making flawed pop – community hall versions of
Klavierwerke
James Blake is increasingly displaying a master’s stroke when it comes to the use of space and silence in his music. Still modelled around the cut and paste sample style
Come Around Sundown
Saboteurs of their own legacy of actually-quite-ingenuous rock built up by their exemplary first two releases (damn, we’ll even take Knocked Up from the third album), CAS is not so
Limit To Your Love
While the cover of last month’s Klavierwerke EP featured a blurred photo of the artist’s profile, this single sees London electronic maverick James Blake baring his soul, somewhat. Shedding the
You Can Count On Me b/w Alsatian Darn
You Can Count On Me is the second in a line of 7″ singles precipitating the release next year of Tomboy, the whetted-after follow up to 2007’s celebrated Person Pitch
Andrew Bird- Hot Math
The Deluxe version of Noble Beasts, released last year contained an adventurous instrumental disc, Useless Creatures which is due for its own release this month with Bella Union Records. Leaving
The Vaccines- Wreckin’ Bar (Ra Ra Ra)
Short, sweet and straight to the point. The hotly tipped Londoners, The Vaccines attempt to rekindle the spirit of the three chord wonder. The relentless assault from this four piece
Lunar Disko
Very much from the D.I.Y school of thought, Andy Doyle and Barry Donovan are the co-founders of Dublin’s Lunar Disko records. Spawned from an Italo/ Electro / Chicago night, they
Legowelt
With 20 pseudonyms and counting, Danny Wolfers is impossibly hard to pigeonhole. Born and raised in The Hague, the man most commonly known as Legowelt is steeped in the electronic
No Age – Everything In Between
No Age’s gig in Exchange Dublin was so loud that it drew complaints, police, and essentially stopped gigs in the venue for nine months afterwards. That’s their thing, if you
Sufjan Stevens – The Age Of Adz
Five years later, Sufjan’s sixth album proper has arrived. Not about a state, or birds, or an expressway. Audaciously, it’s just an album, and a pretty good one at that.