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Cant – Dreams Come True

Cant – Dreams Come True

Grizzly Bear multi-instumentalist and producer Chris Taylor emerges from bedroom-pop hibernation

(4 stars)24 Aug 2011

(Warp) Recorded in 10 days just a whisper away from where Grizzly Bear recorded Veckatimest, Dreams Come True is the first major foray into solo-dom by the band’s member-producer Chris Taylor. Written with George Lewis Jr AKA Twin Shadow (who last…

Brian Eno - Drums Between The Bells

Brian Eno - Drums Between The Bells

Soundscapes accompanied by spoken-word passages from contemporary thinker Rick Holland

(4 stars)13 Jun 2011

(Warp) Featuring the words of poet and contemporary thinker Rick Holland, Drums Between The Bells isn’t so much a collection of songs as a series of soundscapes accompanied by spoken-word passages, here uttered by nine people, including actress…

Atari Teenage Riot - Is This Hyperreal?

Atari Teenage Riot - Is This Hyperreal?

A compelling call to arms following ATR’s abrasive sonic formula

(4 stars)20 May 2011

Alec Empire’s anarcho cadre issues an angry communiqué for the digital era

Janelle Monae

Janelle Monae brings high-concept pop statement ArchAndroid to UK

Soul fused with elements of cabaret, movie scores, psychedelia and English folk

11 Feb 2011

The immaculate pop offspring of Little Richard, Annie Lennox and David Bowie, Janelle Monáe is the most exciting figure to enjoy – and court – mainstream exposure since the entrance of a certain bad romancer. But whereas Gaga often relies on well worn…

Mogwai's seventh studio album radiates vitality, diversity and sense of purpose - interview

Mogwai's seventh studio album radiates diversity and sense of purpose - interview

Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will - 2011 tour dates

19 Jan 2011

As record titles go, Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will provokes a pause. Utterly fatuous and perversely profound, it is the name of Mogwai’s seventh studio album since forming in Glasgow 15 years ago. But there’s no sense of finality here; rather…

The Drums set for UK tour - interview

The Drums set for UK tour - interview

Brooklyn outfit offer indie-pop escapism in a cynical musical landscape

16 Nov 2010

‘Pop music is important,’ says The Drums’ frontman Jonathan Pierce. ‘Escape is vital and that is what we try to offer.’ In times relentlessly described as ‘hard’, seemingly blithe songs such as whistle-along ‘Let’s Go Surfing’ and the lemon-zinging…

Michael Gira reforms cult post punk outfit Swans for live dates

Michael Gira reforms cult post punk outfit Swans for live dates

Legendarily intense, abrasive band on UK tour

22 Oct 2010

‘It’s a huge ordeal for me to undertake Swans again, but I had to remain true to myself, so I did it.’ Michael Gira, the only constant member of the legendarily intense, abrasive band, is speaking from a hot, cramped rehearsal space in Brooklyn’s…

Glasgow's Minimal festival lines up work by Philip Glass, Steve Reich and Ingram Marshall

Glasgow's Minimal festival lines up work by Philip Glass, Steve Reich and Ingram Marshall

Festival of minimalism features performances of Eno's Apollo and by Michael Nyman and David McAlmont

6 Oct 2010

Minimalism’s hypnotic pulses and repetitions are heard in everything from krautrock and prog to post-rock and techno. But unlike the ear-splitting, brain-freezing intensity of progenitors such as La Monte Young and Charlemagne Palestine, it was the more…

Crocodiles take album Sleep Forever on UK tour

Crocodiles take album Sleep Forever on UK tour

San Diego psychedelic rockers play Glasgow date

15 Sep 2010

San Diego’s Crocodiles wear their influences well. Named after Echo and the Bunnymen’s moody 1980 debut, the title of their own first album, last year’s Summer Of Hate, was also the title of a collection of recordings by Charles Manson, the man who…

King Khan and the Shrines - Stereo, Glasgow, Sun 4 Oct

King Khan and the Shrines - Stereo, Glasgow, Sun 4 Oct

Camp Motown funk madness

(4 stars)15 Oct 2009

When a man takes to the stage sporting a leopard print jacket and a precarious headdress of ostrich-feathers, listen up. Not that tonight’s supports were mundane: local troublemakers Black Rat Death Squad thrashed and cussed like slack-jawed pop punkers…

The Fiery Furnaces

The Fiery Furnaces

Looking forward to the dynamic indie sorts

1 Oct 2009

Don’t second-guess Brooklyn-based sibling duo The Fiery Furnaces. Since forming nine years ago, the Friedbergers have set forth a flurry of wildly divergent records, including a collaboration with their choir-singing gran. The coming months will see the…

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