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Singles of the Month: Withered Hand and King Creosote & Jon Hopkins
3 Feb 2012
Django Django, The Twilight Sad and more also reviewed
Come hither and let us imagine a world, a perfect world – a realm in which Kim Wilde is engaged in a goth-disco tryst with The Sisters of Mercy. Think about it. Harder. Got it? Congratulations, you are now playing ‘Lafaye’ (●●●●, Full Time Hobby), the…
Various Artists - World Routes: On The Road
1 Feb 2012
30-track BBC Radio 3 compilation featuring Toumani Diabaté, Tito Paris and Ilham Al Madfai
(Nascente) How would we hear diverse world musics without Radio 3? Thank goodness they still have the budget to travel to far-flung places to capture stunning sounds from ordinary musicians we’d never know about otherwise. Since 2000 the World Routes…
Ibrahím Maalouf - Diagnostic
1 Feb 2012
A groundbreaking album of brooding French-Arabic tones from trumpeter
(Harmonia Mundi) The brooding French-Arabic quarter tones of Ibrahím Maalouf’s trumpet first seduced as guest on the late Lhasa de Sela’s desert island disc The Living Road. Bewitching then, Maalouf’s own debut with a brace of tremendous musicians…
Trailer Trash Tracys - Captain’s Rest, Glasgow, Sun 15 Jan 2012
27 Jan 2012
Effects-laden shoegaze fog heavy on the exquisite melodrama
Not, as you might have expected from the name, a clan of bad-mouthin’, whisky-swillin’ Midwestern girls battering badly-tuned guitars and trying to resurrect the lost souls of L7 or The Distillers, Trailer Trash Tracys are instead three guys and a girl…
Real Estate set for UK tour
27 Jan 2012
New Jersey trio take one of the best albums of 2011 on the road
Let England Shake may have topped most of the critics’ lists, but for many it was word-of-mouth, you have to hear this, slow-burner Days by Real Estate that became their hands down musical highlight of 2011. This much-lauded record was an Ariel Pink…
Eat, sleep and breathe: Melanie C
27 Jan 2012
Former Spice Girl on green tea, lemon, ginger and missing spicy food
Eat, sleep and breathe Melanie C What time is breakfast? 8am or thereabouts. Tea or coffee? Green tea. Smoking or non-smoking? NON! Sweet or savoury snacks? Savoury. What food do you miss when you tour? Spicy food – I tend to avoid…
Pulp - It/Freaks/Separations
27 Jan 2012
Reissue of first three albums from 1980s originally released on Fire
(Fire) Testament to the 80s’capacity to incubate provincial bands until they’re ready for megastardom, Pulp’s first three albums on Fire were a career’s worth in themselves, although hardly anyone remembers. Containing, as all three of these reissues…
Emeli Sande - Our Version Of Events
24 Jan 2012
Powerful, sophisticated and smart mix of stripped down, acoustic songs
(Virgin) Just imagine it, Adele and Emeli Sandé down the pub, putting the world to rights over copious pints. Men? Screw ’em. Hype? Whatever. But the main reason they’d make great gal pals is because they’ve both worked out ways to channel their…
School of Seven Bells - Ghostory
24 Jan 2012
Third album from New York electro-phantoms, now a duo
(Full Time Hobby) Ghostory – geddit? It’s the way in which our histories are colonised by ghosts. It’s the way in which persons come to haunt our tales of yore. It’s the third album from New York electro-phantoms SVIIB. At best, it is euphoric – all…
Die Hard - Die Hard
23 Jan 2012
Glasgow outfit's eponymous debut of magnificently off-kilter, avant pop tales
(Halleluwah Hits) If this Glasgow outfit had named themselves after any other Bruce Willis film we’d have issues, but as it is we’re rather partial to a bit of John McClane action so we’re giving Die Hard a go. Stick their eponymous debut on and…
The Ting Tings - Sounds From Nowheresville
23 Jan 2012
Second album a mixed bag containing glimpses of what makes them fun
(Columbia) Pity the poor Ting Tings. After selling millions of records, the Mancunian electro-pop duo got stressed, scrapped a whole album and hid from their record label. Allegedly. You can see why the pair might worry about following We Started…
