Archive for the ‘Singles’ Category

Published on January 17th, 2012

‘Swagger’ is probably the most overused word in music. Irreversibly connected with the self-indulgent lad-rock of Oasis and Kasabian, it »

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Published on January 17th, 2012

  A second helping of polygenesis imbued narratives, and smooth-flowing imagined soundtracks, is on offer from the multifaceted drum’n’bass producer, »

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Published on January 11th, 2012

In Simple Song, the lead single from The Shins‘ upcoming album Port Of Morrow, James Mercer is in a nostalgic »

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Published on December 24th, 2011

For years now I’ve often found myself wondering about the “other” singers on The Magnetic Fields’ 69 Love Songs, then »

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Published on December 21st, 2011

With this being the official Christmas week there won’t be a ‘proper’ singles round-up – partly because a lot of »

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Published on December 15th, 2011

Well, as we all know the entire music industry was shook to the very core last Saturday – Little Mix »

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Published on December 15th, 2011

A brand new release by Spector, who are included in the hot new BBC Sound of 2012 shortlist. Like the »

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Published on December 10th, 2011

The prophesied 90s alt-rock revival of 2010 was as short-lived as the hype surrounding its two main proponents, Yuck and »

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Published on December 7th, 2011

This week is always going to be a challenge for anyone releasing a single that doesn’t involve sleigh-bells, dense choral »

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Published on December 2nd, 2011

  The 6th, and last single (we’re promised) from their glowingly superfluous appraised debut LP; ‘Wetsuit’ is an empirical glideing »

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Published on November 28th, 2011

This Christmas single rounds off a pretty damn fine year for Japan’s Shonen Knife, marking their 30th anniversary as a »

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Published on November 24th, 2011

  The recondite moniker of Sunless ’97 gives little away about this halcyon, vaporous ‘chillwave’, Lonodn-based trio. Serving only to »

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Published on November 21st, 2011

Champagne Coast successfully evokes the 80s drag ball culture of Jennie Livingston’s New York documentary Paris is Burning; a lifestyle »

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Published on November 16th, 2011

  In true voracious vaudeville style, the “rambunctious” North London (via a ‘bewitching hour’ New Orleans and Bertolt Brecht era »

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