The Magnificents, this is a fucking glorious pop song. The band are from Edinburgh in Scotland and very smartly combine post punk attitudes with some serious up and at them anthemic indie. Definitely one for the days of defiance, the days of friendship failing and raising your twos in reply. A song for the lone [...]
It’s Sunday Night, (yep, sometimes I cheat and schedule posts innit) and I’m lying in my big fluffy bed, listening to Mary Anne Hobbs’ latest radio show and this suddenly flipped on. Now of course all those super smart and on it electronica kids will shoot me down for shouting about Paul White, but hey, [...]
So there’s a shadow on my shoulder, an enigmatic soul, an unreached mind - far beyond the realms of my articulation of love and importance. And then there’s this mystical character, a rare beam of sunshine in an otherwise empty and detached existence, a girl so delicate, so beautiful and so smart - that even [...]
we been a bit obsessed with this song for more than a few weeks now. a beautiful organ backed opening accelerating into just the right amount of vitriol for our headspace, when you fall out of love with the city you live in and spend grey rainy days cursing everyone you see. what? cheer up? [...]
Owner of the most majestic and brilliant name of a generation, Theophilus London, provides us all with a wonderful insight into his musical ambitions. Quite brilliantly, an artist actively promoting his work through twitter and vimeo deserves our love. More so, a man of clear production and vocal skills with an ear for creating [...]
It’s Getting Boring By The Sea tipped us off about these guys. Three Trapped Tigers sound like an epic scrap between Battles, Holy Fuck, Warp Records and Neu! The Music Media are already hyping these guys, with Time Out and Clash Magazine standing tall in their support. Whilst the sonic structure of this band may [...]
I remember sitting at my desk a few years ago and being handed a demo of Findlays tracks - i very quickly fell in love with him - these tracks later went on to form a brilliant debut album. Whatever the reason, bad marketing, lack of brakes at radio, poor timing - the record didnt [...]
Bless these souls, what wonderful Beach Boys inspired beauty, far ahead of their season time - certainly in London right now. Currently sitting in warmer climates with hopefully slightly less identical clothing in Oregan, Portland! It feels like Arcarde Fire (in terms of the instrumentation and sense of adventure) got stuck in a room with [...]
We know nothing about Friends Electric other than that they’re Welsh, a bit young, and used to live in two houses next door to each other which was conjoined with a practice space in the middle. We’d take that life kindly!
It’s all pop and swirls with a bigger bassline than you’d expect.
Oh yeah, one more [...]
Wonderful stuff, Velvet Underground dancing on the gravestone of Tropicalia singing songs of rebellion in a psychedelia Sao Paolo smokey club circa 1974. Cassim, will play to the yanks first in NYC, Atlanta and other cities in March before he hits Europe later in the MM. He’s planning an European tour in MMIX
MP3: Cassim: [...]
