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09.12.08

Kitsuné Maison 6: The Melodic One
Disco, Release, Reviews (9)
If you needed further proof that the aural flavour of the year is smooth and glossy disco revivalism, then the latest Maison compilation from trend-setting uber-label Kitsuné should eradicate those final doubts in a blinding burst of disco ball funk. "Aieeeeee!" you'll say, shielding your eyes from the safari suited splendour, "where be the bangerz?". And a friendly man with an afro and sideburns the size of shoes will declare "Nay! The time of the banger has passed! Now come with me and fall into the disco strings." And then you'll wake up 5 hours later in a pool of ...
09.09.08

TV on the Radio Return
Release, Reviews, indie as fuck (3)
TV on the Radio hold an odd place in my musical pantheon. Over the past few years I became, and still am so deeply enamoured with the song 'Staring at the Sun' that it's made it quite hard for me to really listen properly to anything else they've done. Every time I tried to listen to 'Return to Cookie Mountain', their much-loved 2006 sophomore album, I'd inevitably get halfway through before my brain would click in with the thought 'you know what, I kinda feel like listening to 'Staring at the Sun' again'. And I would. Hell, I'm listening to ...
08.28.08

Bomb The Bass - Future Chaos
Release, Reviews, Website (2)
I always get slightly nervous when I come to write about an artist such as UK’s Tim Simenon, who maintains the lofty status of one of electronic music’s great figureheads. In this case it all seems particularly out of my depth seeing as the dude contributed significantly to the rise of what NME coined, “DJ culture,” in their 1987 issue which featured Simenon on the cover with that incessant yellow smiley face, which Simenon inadvertently introduced into the rave and acid house scenes only to watch it explode into an icon in a mere moment. (All the while I was ...
08.28.08

The Rex The Dog Show
Release, Remix, Reviews (8)
Listening to Rex the Dog's long-awaited debut LP (well, at least as far as the Rex the Dog moniker is concerned - Jake Williams, the man behind Rex, has been producing dance music since 1993) 'The Rex the Dog Show' you start to realise two things. One, that Rex is making some of the best electro house doing the rounds at the moment - his tunes and remixes are wonderfully consistent and brilliantly produced. And two, that Rex himself is thoroughly convinced of this fact. I mean, how else do you explain the presence of no less than EIGHT previously ...
07.01.08

Beck: Modern Guilt
Release, Reviews, indie as fuck (0)
It feels like I’ve been anticipating this album for all of forever. I have a massive crush on this man, and not just because he’s pretty. It’s because he never disappoints, even after nine studio albums spanning fourteen years, Beck’s tenth album, Modern Guilt, is superb, and while he has described it as, "the most intensive work I've ever done on anything,” the end result appears characteristically effortless. From its very opening, Modern Guilt whisks you away to the Universe of Beck, where time stands still long enough to allow you to remember how it felt when you first heard ...
06.30.08

Dandi Wind - Yolk of the Golden Egg
Release, Reviews (11)
When a friend of mine was looking through my records last week, he came to a halt when he arrived at the Dandi Wind Sleeping Beauty 7”, which features a bathing-suit-clad-but-certainly-not-tacky Dandi on the front cover, and a nuggety yet sweet-looking dog on the back. Needless to say he didn’t share my fantasy of folicing on the beach with that dog and maybe climbing a tree The Breed-style, (except this time the dog wouldn’t be inexplicably homicidal) with it afterwards, but he did put the record into the “I’m borrowing this, ok?” pile. I hoped it was because he hadn’t ...
06.22.08

The Rascals - Rascalize
Release, Reviews, indie as fuck (2)
Well it's set to be released internationally tomorrow, but The Rascals' Rascalize was leaked about a month ago and it's been oozing all over the place ever since. Not that that's such a terrible thing (ok, maybe for Deltasonic Records it is), because I really do enjoy it, although I'm not so sure I should be saying that out loud seeing as Rascalize appears to be receiving more than its fair share of underwhelming reviews from a bunch of underwhelmed critics still hung up on an Alex Turner ideal. Admittedly it is a little spooky just how uncannily vocalist, Miles ...

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