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 The fourth album from the Scottish indie underground legends is a bit of a slow burner. The last 3 albums were so easy to fall in love with so the anticipation leading up to 'Rest and Be Thankful' was of a ridiculous scale. Which was probably why, on the first couple of listens, I was caught off guard when I wasn’t instantly blown away as per usual. But after much persistence and a live show that was heavy on this records material, it suddenly clicked. |
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 'Nouns' shows off everything there is to love about No Age. Where 'Weirdo Rippers', and the EPs from which it was taken, laid down the basic elements, 'Nouns' sees them perfected: the slightly angsty lyrics; the magnificent pop bursts; the ambient, wooshing noise; the enveloping, deep worlds of production. This album is thoughful enough to make flaw-finding tough, and energetic enough to feel exciting on each listen. |
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 Modern guitar-driven indie music is a hard beast to categorise. I feel that the spiky nonsense of Razorlight and The Libertines (and all their respective copycats) has dominated much of the recent output of homegrown guitar bands... All you have to do is have a listen to Oasis’ 'The Importance of Being Idle' to see how prevalent this (frankly fucking annoying) trait is.
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 Okay, this one's getting on a bit, (it featured in our 2007 best of lists) but as it's new to me and an interesting record, it felt natural to give it a write up. As I'm still discovering some classics over the last couple years, it's been an interesting search (next stop, Wolf Parade) and a pretty rewarding one. Of course, partially thanks to Vampire Weekend (although the band wouldn't be too pleased with that) Yeasayer have begun their ascent from the Indie elite; already featuring on one of the first "Jools Holland Live!" shows and being more and more talked about by the british press. |
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 On the grand scale of material output from Efrim Menuck there is his now, somewhat modest, 'F# A# (infinity)' - an incredible and radical record though it may be - and there is '13 Moons for Thirteen Blues'. Perhaps its an age thing, but he has, over the career of his two major bands (not including Set Fire to Flames) leaned ever so more towards the more conventional and mainstream as time has gone on. Whereas 'F#...' and A Silver Mount Zion's (back in the humble days where their name only stretched three and a half words) 'He Has Left Us Alone...' alike started off as albums that didn't really care who listened and were purely self-sufficient; some argue then that this is still their best work. |
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 "Intelligent pop" seems to be a conquest that's taking more and more people by the heart as 2008 rolls by. With a well-documented (and admittedly interesting, but wholly unconvincing) effort from Oxford rockers Foals invading the pop boundaries with Don Caballero guitar styles, the door is left wide open for a band that wants to bring something new to pop's boundaries.
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 The first time I listened to this album, I thought it was a lazy and apathetic outing, self-indulgent, scrappy, and disjointed. On re-evaluation I have decided that this album (Daniels' sophomore offering) is definitely a grower, and a majestic one at that. |
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