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Pompeii Am Götterdämmerung!
I’m planning to do a hefty post on the 2011 activities of the Flaming Lips in a few days, but first, here is an earlier, particularly sublime song of theirs. Something special, no? The vocals, the bassline, the mass of … Continue reading
Brainwash Festival VI – Review
Here is a review of the Brainwash music festival I did for the Leeds Student newspaper last term. They asked me to write about these particular bands, and so I did, although unfortunately not much of what I wrote eventually … Continue reading
About those Mercury Prize albums…
So it would seem that I’ve managed to do precisely none of the reviews of the albums on the Mercury Prize shortlist this year, as i said i would before. Sorry about that. I have listened to a few of … Continue reading
Posted in Mercury Prize, Music
Tagged Mercury Prize 2011, Mercury Prize Winner, Music
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DROOOOOOOOONE
Do you like droning music? Of course you do! Be it the heavy and overwhelming wall of massive noise that Sunn0))), Boris or Earth provide, where the aim seems to be to obliterate your mind/ears/body/soul, or the beautiful ambient drones … Continue reading
Posted in Music
Tagged Arvo Part, Boris, Drone, Earth, Emeralds, Fennesz, La Monte Young, Oneida, Philip Glass, Really Eternal Music, Steve Reich, Sunn0))), Tim Hecker, Velvet Underground, Your Bloated Hard Drive
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Field Day!
In a couple of weeks I’m off to Field Day (along with most of the people i know it seems), which is located in the very same park as LED Festival last year, for which you can read my review … Continue reading
Posted in Festivals, Music
Tagged About Group, Actress, Anika, Electrelane, Factory Floor, Faust, Field Day, Four Tet b2b James Holden, Gruff Rhys, John Cale, Konono No.1, London. Victoria Park, Matthew Dear, Omar Souleyman, Oneohetrix Point Never, Pearson Sound, Spectrals, Sun Ra Arekestra, The Horrors, Warpaint, Wild Beasts
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The Mercury Music Prize 2011
Well well, its now more or less the same time of year as it was when I started up this blog; it must be, because the Mercury Prize nominees from 2010 were what I started off writing about. (In fact, … Continue reading
