Mayors of Miyazaki – Holy Cop! Release on 3rd June 2013 via We Be Records With a name like Mayors of Miyazaki, this is a band that clearly delights in befuddlement. Just listen to the riffs that these ‘math punks’ from London have collated for their second album Holy Cop! – sometimes dizzying, occasionally discordant…
Denovali Label Evening IX (Poppy Ackroyd + Petrels + John Lemke) at The Islington, London 15th May 2013 London born musician and composer Poppy Ackroyd is classically trained on violin and piano, but her experimental approach to playing these instruments has taken her music in an unusual direction. Her debut album Escapement was created with…
Wampire – Curiosity Released on 13th May 2013 via Polyvinyl Jeepers creepers, where’d you get those peepers? Having snagged the production duties of Jacob Portrait from band of the year (so far, at least) Unknown Mortal Orchestra, Portland duo Rocky Tinder and Eric Phipps sound like they’ve had a blissful time and created some stunners…
Vision Fortune – Mas Fiestas con el Grupo Vision Fortune Released on 13th May 2013 via Gringo Records/Faux Discx Books are great. Reading too, no question about it. We wouldn’t be here today without words on paper and the number of songs based on literature is near infinite. The Cure’s Killing an Arab, for instance,…
Portico Quartet (w/ Anchorsong) at Koko, London 17th April 2013 I first heard of Portico Quartet after their third, self-titled album made number three in CRACK magazine’s albums of 2012. The term ‘Jazz-techno’ was used in that review and my attention was grabbed. I later found said album on Spotify and was greeted by a…
Alt-J @ Terminal 5, New York City, NY 24th March 2013 With a name about as inviting as a trip to the emergency room, Terminal 5 is neither New York City’s most notoriously cozy nor cherished music venue. However, despite its 3,000-person capacity, tickets were sold out within 20 minutes – this, of course, for…
Willy Moon XOYO, London 5th March 2013 In the short span that Willy Moon has graced our radio waves, the Kiwi-Brit performer has already become somewhat of a household name. Last year, he was picked up by Jack White to release the single Railroad Track through White’s Third Man Records and later he got together…
The Suicide of Western Culture – Hope Only Brings Pain Released on 14th March 2013 through Irregular Spanish duo strike home One casual glance at the tracklist of TSWOC’s second album gives a good idea of what lies ahead. With titles such as Remembering Better Times, When Did I Become Everything I Hate and Love…
Reason To Believe – The Songs of Tim Hardin Out now on Full Time Hobby Slide into the Dark Side. Tim who? Hardin. Nope, never heard of him. S’alright, you’re not the only one but you’ve likely heard of the artists who were inspired by him, who include Echo & The Bunnymen, Paul Weller and…
Suuns – Images du Futur Released on 5th March through Secretly Canadian Suuns’ second full-length, released via the appropriately named Secretly Canadian label (they hail from Montreal but keep mum), sees a continuation from debut Zeroes QC; one might call it a maturing. From the off, with Powers of Ten, it feels like familiar and…
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