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The beginning of Matt Cutler’s sixth release as the rapidly influential Lone doesn't just resemble the start of the album, it encapsulates the start of life. First Born Seconds conceptualizes birth with Vangelis-style airy synths denoting life’s first breaths calmly and optimistically inside the sonic womb until radio-tuning frequencies symbolize the next stage: a search for primal existence...
The schizophrenic complexities of math rock were accurately presented last year in Brooklyn-based Celestial Shore’s debut album 10x, although it was the additionally calculated sum of surf rock, experimentation, psychedelic journeys that recall timeless compositions such as The Beatles’ A Day In The Life, along with contrasting blissful yet indistinguishable harmonies that made it intriguing and oddly mind-blowing...
At only 22-years-old Asgeir Trausti has already become part of a magical Icelandic folklore with his debut album Dýrð í dauðaþögn, becoming the fastest selling album in his home country. With the help of recent Icelandic ambassador John Grant (who recorded his latest album in those landscapes), Asgeir aims to get international acclaim...
Dedication and perseverance epitomizes the fractured yet compelling journey of Australian rock giants AC/DC. Despite being bruised by tragedy, most significantly the death of their original singer Bon Scott and marked with controversies that have threatened their existence, they continue to rock like its 1975...
In the attic presumably in the season before summer, Springtime Carnivore’s Greta Morgan discovered a dusty old piano belonging to a family member of a past generation; along with it she appears to have consumed its precedent spirit. This can be said about lead single; the sugary-sweetName on a Matchbook, a track that contains the best whistling since Peter Bjorn and John’s Young Folks...
In the war between the recent resurgence in sister folk duos, Lily & Madeleine Jurkiewicz (L&M) are well armoured. Whilst it’s easy to compare the Indianapolis siblings to another young pair First Aid Kit, especially the fact they both rose to fame virally helped by a You Tube cover of Fleet Foxes’s Tiger Mountain Peasant Song, there are differences...
The intriguing mystery surrounding Jonna Lee’s transition from folk pop singer-songwriter to experimental electronic goddess propelled excitement and spurned the most original act name of 2012. Originally an unidentified artist, once the ambiguity of the singer’s identity was revealed piece by piece through enigmatic short films and abstract clues, alongside spooky avant garde and dark witch house synths...
The geeky-looking guy from Norway’s Simon and Garfunkel inspired Kings of Convenience likes to travel and make music wherever he lays his glasses. Despite being a clinical part of the Bergen music scene, the avid traveller composed indie pop music in Germany with The Whitest Boy Alive and has adopted a recent love for Sicily with his ambitious Italian-language track La Prima Estate...
Back in 2012, the negative consensus to Salford duo The Ting Tings’ difficult second album Sounds from Nowheresville felt like a witch hunt. Critics persecuted the genre-hopping and their super abundant imitational range of styles: r&b, ska, new wave and rap, despite the fact their debut already teased at their ability to be unrestrictive, show playfulness whilst still maintaining an entertainment value.,.
At the dawn of the music calendar, psychedelic rock awakened from it’s antecedent glories in the transcendence of British band Temples. The debut album Sun Structures was a commercial triumph that bought psychedelic vibes to the Smartphone generation. To some degree it was a critically successful, with praise aimed at the precision...
Appropriately birth-named France Poulet is a 28-year-old musician from the French Republic who performs under the name Owlle (a feminized version of Owl) and her wise and knowledgeable debut album encapsulates everything great about modern alternative pop. Even when she ventures into her most commercial side (Don't Lose It and Ticky Ticky, My Light Is Gone), they maintain a likeability factor....
Whether you know their name or not, there is a high probability that your ears have unknowingly been exposed to an abundance of their creations from video games, commercials, television shows and even as default introduction music on PCs. This is a measure of their electronic influence over the last 13 years and all this is reaching an inevitable end...
During her days touring with Groove Armada and promoting her collaborations on the electronic music duo’s album Black Light, Saint Saviour’s Rebecca Jones painted herself as a show girl somewhere between a Robyn, La-Roux and Annie Lennox figure especially in the music video for “I Won’t Kneel”. To be fair she did have that kind of haircut and wore cyber clothing that Luc Besson would be proud of...
San Francisco’s Deerhoof do what they want and say what they want. “Welcome to special freedom. Thank you for coming, now get out now. I don’t need you”, exclaims Japanese singer Satomi Matsuzaki in the loud track Exit Only (reminding me of Scott Pilgrim’s band Sex Bob-omb). It’s this stubborn attitude that has fuelled their methodology of self-management and self-production and hats off to them...
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