Archive for December, 2009
In rude health
Recorded in a community hall in Brighton, you are maybe now able to understand the acute engineering concerns that have hampered The Sticks‘ ascent, only now able to flaunt their debut LP. As with their 2007 split EP, The Sticks is available through Upset The Rhythm, and finds their crude garage kicks in rude health; warped Joe Meek claustrophobics hugging a doting Diddley jukebox clatter.
NPIP010
A Grave With No Name’s debut album - ‘Mountain Debris’ - is out through No Pain In Pop now. Buy a copy direct on CD or digital release here.
“A uniquely 21st century take on lo-fi that compels spectral washes of sound to tussle with fuzzy guitar breaks in a considered game of cat and mouse. 8/10.”
NME
“A shoegazing masterpiece to round off a year of lo-fi brilliance.”
Dummy
“Overall contemplative and haunting, it takes several spins before the album’s full depths and stark beauty can be fully discovered. With this album they’ve cemented that they’ll be remembered, if not by the masses then at least by those that really matter.”
Loud and Quiet
MP3: A Grave With No Name - And We Parted Ways At Mt. Jade
Work U Out
A stunning, opulent mix from dapper London gent Sam Butler, ‘The Workout’ features cuts from Claro Intelecto, D5 and Kenny Larkin, as well as a jaw-dropping centre-piece in the form of Orlando Voorn’s sullen and balmy ‘Power Of Beauty’. Techno and house music to kick you on through the snow and out the other side - tracklist after the fold.
MP3: Sam Butler - The Workout
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Stick to your spokes
This one’s out to all the lonely souls. Seams is James Welch from London, who says ‘Nightcycles’ “is inspired by the freedom of 3am bike rides on deserted roads, and is constructed primarily from samples taken from a Nineties Elliott Smith documentary.”
It sounds nice if you play two versions of it at the same time. Start the second six seconds after the first, if you like.
MP3: Seams - Nightcycles
MP3: Seams - Nightcycles
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