San Fermin, Parasites.
To say that Ellis Ludwig-Leone’s latest, Parasites (below), marks something of a radical departure from his eponymous San Fermin album of yesteryear really undersells the divergence that this...
View ArticleFirst Transmission: Adult Mom, Ode To One Night Stands.
When you associate the words ‘Purchase’ and ‘New York’, some manic Fifth Avenue-based splurge probably springs to mind. But purge yours of such facile superficialities, and henceforth think Upstate;...
View ArticlePATRICIA. Needs A Nap.
Musical exotericism has seemingly never been of even the most remote importance to inscrutable Brooklyn producer, PATRICIA. However, with the rousing Needs A Nap (below), the statesider intimates...
View ArticleReview: Buke and Gase, Purcell Room.
There can be days and weeks, and sometimes months and maybe even years, in which your grip on reality slips. As it relaxes, you lose perspective, and with that sight, of who and what ultimately matters...
View ArticleFirst Transmission: Tor Miller, Midnight.
New York: “a city that doesn’t sleep,” or so cliché decrees and self-proclaimed “King of the Hill,” Frank Sinatra once crooned. Indeed, and arguably irregularly, it’s a truism that still rings good and...
View ArticleTei Shi, Go Slow.
Platitudinous though this particular remark may be, you’re forewarned of messin’ with Texas with great reason: it’s been several days now since SXSW 2015 came to a close, and yet the generous handfuls...
View ArticleSufjan Stevens, Carrie & Lowell (Les Gordon Edit).
There can be absolutely no rebuffing the beauty that’s so intrinsically linked to Sufjan Stevens’ eulogistic latest full-length effort, Carrie & Lowell. And although its misty-eyed title track may...
View ArticleMac DeMarco, The Way You’d Love Her.
Bordering on the impossibly prolific, ‘Big Mac’ DeMarco’s back again, with the giddy, shimmering The Way You’d Love Her the first single from his forthcoming, and fucking aptly entitled ‘mini-LP’,...
View ArticleReview: Sunflower Bean, The Lexington.
Julia Cummings might candidly, if not ingenuously admit to feeling that little bit nervous before setting up onstage at The Lexington, on what is to be the London début of the precocious NYC...
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Review: Battles, The Dome.
Not only are Battles one of the most aspirational of acts when it comes to continually defying convention, and the intrinsic limitations thereof (tonight, the merch stand proffers aficionados the...
View ArticleReview: Suicide: A Punk Mass; Barbican Centre.
Of course, Sod’s law would always dictate that wave upon wave of fuzzy heat should descend upon London the week that both The Jesus and Mary Chain and fellow, commensurately eminent doom mongers...
View ArticleReview: Brand New, Alexandra Palace.
It goes without saying that Brand New are the sort of assemblage to readily inspire their innumerable disciples to install band-themed iPhone backgrounds and so on, so a short hike up South Terrace...
View ArticleDIIV, Dopamine.
To say that Zachary Cole Smith’s DIIV have suffered their fair share of bumps and bruises – whether metaphorically or physically; unfortunate or self-inflicted – since the release of their resplendent...
View ArticleSufjan Stevens, Blue Bucket of Gold (Remix).
It should’ve come as no surprise whatsoever to discover as ineffably breathtaking a collection of songs as Sufjan Stevens’ Carrie & Lowell translating to as commensurately spectacular a live...
View ArticleReview: Ratatat, Electric Brixton.
For the enduring, durable and Goddamn formidable duo that Evan Mast and Mike Stroud – together, better known as Ratatat – have become, it’s more or less par for the course that the Brooklynites should...
View ArticleLana Del Rey, Some Things Last a Long Time.
Enduringly delightful a ditty though it may so irrefutably remain, I can’t say I necessarily saw Lana Del Rey redoing Daniel Johnston and Jad Fair’s fairly despondent Some Things Last a Long Time; not...
View ArticleReview: Battles, Electric Brixton.
Few bands can be as sonically, sensorially, or creatively aggressive as Battles – their moniker, as much as the combative likes of Snare Hanger and the Gary Numan-featuring My Machines, attests to...
View ArticleJoining the Dots: Adam Green’s Aladdin.
“Bad things happen to good people, because the bad times remind you of how good the good times are” Adam Green’s answer to the question, posed by none other than Macaulay Culkin, “Why do bad things...
View ArticleSharon Van Etten, Do You Realize??
I know not what Gortimer Gibbon’s Life on Normal Street is, other than ‘An Amazon Original Series’, although the fact that it has prompted the inimitable Sharon Van Etten to revisit The Flaming Lips’...
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