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“I think a lot of bands just wanna sound like a C86 band.”
– Jim Reid
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Mar 29th
WatchWatch
After the meditative Dark Folke, The Observatory take it up a notch with machine-gun drums and brutish textures that threaten—but thankfully never deliver—a full-scale collapse. This is a mini-documentary of the quartet’s time in Bergen, Norway, where they recorded their latest album CATACOMBS. Can’t wait for the vinyl to arrive. From a story I wrote for NYLON Singapore (April): “In...
Mar 29th
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Mar 25th
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My Bloody Valentine to release new editions of... →
Although I don’t necessarily agree Loveless is ‘outdated’ due to its decades-old production, it would be interesting to hear how Kevin Shields envisions shoegaze 20 years after the fact, when teenybopper indie bands have already had their fun ripping off My Bloody Valentine. Let’s hope this doesn’t take another four years.
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“Skrillex’s music is the worst nightmare of electronic music aesthetes because he...”
– Daphne Carr on Skrillex. I don’t like him as much as the next “electronic music aesthete” but this piece is a refreshingly rational defence of the bro-step posterboy. In a way, electronic music fans are like their metal cousins: if it isn’t TR00 KVLT, it’s trash. 
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Beach House New Track "Myth"
The formula’s the same—swelling guitars, voluptuous vocals—but it makes me happy. Beach House is one band I don’t mind repeating what it’s good at.
Mar 6th
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Yuck: Indie Music As Heard Two Decades Ago
Beat-up denim jacket, check. Disaffected poses and blistering chainsaw-fuzz guitars; check, and check. Yuck, the shaggy London quartet, look and sound like the unkempt American alternative rock heroes circa the nineties—but it’s 2011 and the band only just released their debut a few months ago. The question then is: when does the homage end and originality begin? I was introduced to the band by a...
May 30th
“Nowadays, [musicians are] no longer astronauts but archaeologists, excavating...”
– Simon Reynolds “Excess All Areas”, The Wire 328 The archive is alive.
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