April 2010
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Benjamin Shaw - I Got the Pox, the Pox is What I...
I’m a little behind the pack on discovering the music of Benjamin Shaw, and most specifically his debut ep I Got The Pox, The Pox is What I Got which was released on the great Audio Antihero label (also home to Nosferatu D2). To refer to this as singer songwriter fare would probably be doing it a dis-service but it is borne from the same kind of mangled consciousness which informs the work...
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Ben Parker Interview
Though he may not be, by any means, a household name (even in the most indie of household) Ben Parker is a man whose output is regularly met with cries of adulatory terms like ‘genius’ and ‘lyrical ninja’. In his current guise as Superman Revenge Squad he has self-released three albums of wonderfully self deprecating anti-folk which perfectly captures the discontent and...
65 Days of Static stream new album
You can now stream the new 65DaysofStatic album We Were Exploding Anyway by visiting the bands myspace page. I posted about a couple of the tracks which were previously available from it here, and which hinted strongly at a much more high-tempo and dance orientated sound than their previous work. Although I wasn’t massively sold on that at the time a couple of listens to the work as a whole...
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Anna Rose Carter - Silver Lines
Hailing from the south coast of Wales but now based in London, Anna Rose Carter makes music which is equally suggestive of the idyllic countryside as it is of stolen moments of respite amongst the cosmopolitan bustle. Silver Lines is a collection of solo piano compositions which manages to side step the cliche of many of her contemporaries in that rather than being dourly minimal and melancholy,...
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Efterklang - Magic Chairs
Written for God is in the TV Efterklang’s first album for 4AD sees them take a step away from the orchestral avant- pop which made up their previous albums. Not a massive step mind you, but this album is by their own standards very much more ‘pop’ than it is ‘avant’. Of course I wouldn’t want to equate experimentation to quality, but certainly one of the most...
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Talvihorros - Let Us Be Thankful We Have Commerce
Following on from last years brilliant Some Ambulance album, which was one of the final feathers in the Benbecula Records cap, Ben Chatwin returns with this limited C20 cassette on new label My Dance The Skull. The sounds here are in a similar vein to the album but are distinctly more minimal, more murky and more diffused, as a cassette release ought to be I guess. Side A lulls you in to a sense...
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Ólafur Arnalds - Tunglið
Ólafur Arnalds is giving away a free track from his forthcoming new album ‘…and they have escaped the weight of darkness’. If you sign up for his mailing list over at the Erased Tapes site then you’ll get access to it. That’s all a bit of a hassle though isn’t it, so I’ve put it below, but you should still sign up. I’m pretty sure I read somewhere...
