EP or mini-album, whatever, this is really rather good. It’s all about their newest album Paper the Walls at the moment, but I didn’t want to skip over this one because I’m really enjoying it. From Hush, based in Portland, the same label that nurtured The Decemberists, it is all too easy to note that [...]
I was in two minds as to whether or not to actually review this record, but I think I’m going to. See, I don’t actually think I like it, as a whole… not entirely. Or, to put it another way, despite the fact that I am yet to really click with Reichenbach Falls, there has [...]
You have to love this one. I get contacted from time to time by publicity companies wanting to send me bits and pieces. I often think it’s a bit of a waste actually, because it’s so hit and miss and seems a waste of a precious freebie. Ah well, their decision I guess, it’s not [...]
After my post a few days back about pilfering in pop a certain DC (½ of Drunk Country, the man responsible for this abomination) popped up in the comments and started slinging scurrilous accusations around… no well actually, that’s nonsense. He just mentioned some rather striking similarities between Sonic Youth’s Silver Rocket and Supergrass’s superb [...]
I tell you what, any band that can defeat this utter shitbox of a venue and show you a fucking good time anyway must be bloody good because, as crappy industrial warehouses guaranteed to swallow even the largest of sounds go, the SECC is one of the worst. It didn’t help that I had only [...]
I would describe this as something of a quasi-religious experience for me, but there’s something so relentlessly normal about The Wedding Present that it wouldn’t seem right. Twenty five [D'oh! - see comments!] years since the release of their brilliant debut album George Best the Weddoes are on tour, playing the album in its [...]
