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 Los Campesinos! strike back (good title for the DVD, in my opinion) a mere 6 months after the release of frantic debut album ‘Hold On Now, Youngster…’, giving the musical public barely a second to catch their collective breath. |
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 Meant as a pre-cursor to the as-yet-untitled album coming later this year, 'Festival Thyme' is a brief glance into ...Trail of Dead at 14 years of age, whose fans have mostly given up expectations from the disappointing follow-up to 'Source Tags & Codes' and the now unaccountable work from 'So Divided' (both songs from these albums have been omitted from live performances, in an embarrassing and very public act of admission). |
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 It's been some journey for this band. They've been together for about 5 years now (which means they were about 15 when they started) and have gone from village heroes, to hipsters choice cuts, to now; a band that have just released their first proper album and are constantly touring with bands whom are already fully established. There's a lot to like about this band; people enjoy, are even amused by their youth, they love the fact there's a "cute girl" doing the vocals and think the music's youthful enthusiasm and kinda tongue-in-cheek method of scaling various genres of which the band's eclectic musical background can clearly be heard.
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 Exeter seems to have a very healthy punk scene at the moment, with bands like Chaps, the Computers and Marshall Teller more than filling the quota. |
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 'Islands of Ayle' is Hawnay Troof's fourth full-length and it sees him pushing the sound of the 'Dollar and Deed' double LP once more. Making a pretty big impression with bona fide banger 'Connection', the rest of the album has a lot to live up to. But, instead of more of the same, there's actually a pretty different feel to the release, leaving the lead single looking like a bit of an odd-one-out. |
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 If the world was perfect - and it definitely isn't - then Deerhoof would be the world's #1 guitar-pop band. So catchy they're hard to forget, so quirky, weird and, frankly, genius that they're hard to tire of. Their live shows reduce me to a childish mess of glee. I have this scenario in my head that I love to replay every now and then that involves Deerhoof writing a kind of crazily joyous song that's become their trademark but holds an undeniable hook so strong, so brilliant that it unexplainably storms the charts and is enjoyed by the masses in some kind of 'musical Holocaust' (but, y'know, in a good way) against the dire drab like... Editors or Jack Penate (and his stupid fucking legs). |
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 There should be a rule that all us critics can't judge a new record until they see it performed live. Of course, everyone wants to get their reviews and opinions heard first, but I feel we'd have a fairer system in place if so. The reason being that when I first listened to the new Maps & Atlases EP (and it definitely is an EP this time) I thought, "Oh no, they've settled for mediocrity!" given that it's not as immediate or energetic as their debut (mini) album (I guess) 'Trees, Swallows, Houses'. But an enigmatic live performance in what was, more or less, a basement in Glasgow last week has given me a new found appreciation and excitement for this band all over again.
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