CD | Bridezilla | THE FIRST DANCE
Imagine the scene: it’s one of those horrible spring days where winter comes back from the (almost) dead to give you one last slap across the face. Knowing the only way to survive such an ordeal is to hibernate away from the world with a bottle of wine and a TV show box set, you embark on one last mission into the great outdoors. As soon ...
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CD | Breakestra | DUSK TILL DAWN
There is absolutely no reason to listen to this album. Its not that Breakestra are anything less than awesome, and its certainly not because this album sucks. Put simply, it’s because all of Breakestra’s previous albums are awesome and this one is not. Breakestra made a big splash on the international soul music scene with 1999’s ...
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CD | Volcano Choir | UNMAP
Like the cover art and title suggest, this record is wilfully lost in the forest. Recorded in the remote woods of Wisconsin it sounds as if it were sung from a snow covered wilderness with no other human ear around just the hydrogen, oxygen and argon of the air… and the occasional moose or bear. Unmap is a collaboration between Bon Iver fron...
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CD | Telekinesis | TELEKINESIS!
Michael Benjamin Lerner is Telekinesis. Lerner is also an American that managed to make an English-sounding debut album. This 22-year-old alone created Telekinesis!, which was then produced and engineered by Death Cab for Cutie’s Chris Walla. An eclectic mix of typical indie sounds and some 60s-inspired surf-pop, Lerner’s first musical ...
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CD | Metric | FANTASIES
I’ve never seen an indie band so incorrectly labelled. The very premise of indie music is that it is limited, secret – unknown even. But Canadian four-piece Metric have already beaten Kings of Leon to the number one spot in the Canadian charts, with their newly released single ‘Help I’m Alive’. Of course labels and gen...
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CD | Vivian Girls | SELF-TITLED
Maybe when you come from Brooklyn there’s a lot to be angry about, I’ve heard things can get pretty hardcore out of suburban Australia. The Vivian Girls are certainly not very perky about life. They’ve managed to be depressed in a kinda pretty way though. Practically all the vocals on this album are perfectly executed three-bit...
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