July 2012
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Kill List (2011)
Trying to discuss Ben Wheatley’s latest Brit genre mash-up without spoilers is no easy task but it’s definitely worth attempting. Kill List begins as a fairly bleak kitchen sink drama set in the rural suburbia of South Yorkshire, where Jay and Shel’s marriage is cracking under the strain of financial woes and parenthood. Following an explosive dinner party argument we discover...
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Here’s a little playlist I made with tracks...
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WatchTim Heidecker - Bob Dylan’s Titanic
“Recently, I read that Bob Dylan’s new album Tempest will feature a 14 minute song about the Titanic.
So I wrote this song to see if I could beat the Master to it. I can’t wait to see how close I got to the real thing!”
Well done Tim Heidecker. The idea is arguably funnier than the execution, but it’s still got some lyrical gems (full...
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Here's a brand new Sebadoh EP
Just like that. The Secret EP was released via Bandcamp earlier today and is available to download for the pricely sum of 5 US Dollars. Here’s the accompanying blurb for the release…
“new songs for 2012 , a taste of our upcoming 2013 album, but, NONE of these songs will be on that album.. i repeat: NONE of these songs will be on our forthcoming/in progress 2013 LP .. this is our...
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Dmitry Evgrafov
In February last year the now defunct web-label which I operated as part of this blog released its penultamate record, a short EP by young Russian compser Dmitry Evgrafov. It was one of the ones which I was most pleased to be part of putting out there into the world, and the response to both the EP and Dmitry’s prodigious talent was overwhelmingly positive. So I was delighted to find that he...
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Take This Waltz (2011)
Take This Waltz is a film which has so far divided audiences; it’s been heralded as both an emotional and visual triumph as well as self-conscious hipster drivel. Personally I’m much more inclined to agree with the former, because this really got under my skin in a way in which very few films do. I actually watched it like a week ago, but it’s still in my head, and I’ve...
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Are you all listening to this? You should be.
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Admiral Fallow - Tree Bursts In Snow
From its original release in 2010 and a couple of re-issues last year, Admiral Fallow’s debut album Boots Met My Face became something of a slow burning word of mouth success. Thoroughly deserved it was too, as they (and earlier incarnation Brother Louis Collective) had long been one of the best bands kicking around the Glasgow circuit, and their wistful brand of folk-pop translates quite...
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Frank Ocean releases Channel Orange one week... →
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Daughn Gibson - All Hell
In recent years most music genres have been “re-invented” by some chumps with a laptop who have decided to make a more dubbed up, down beat, lo-fi version of indie-pop or death metal or whatever. Needless to say these are generally quite bad, but not always (How To Dress Well nailed 90’s r’n’b for example) and one which hasn’t really seen this treatment is American country music. Sure it might...
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