All The Saints – Intro to Fractions
Repetition works. I didn’t particularly need any reminding of that statement – after all, certain sub-genres of music have already established repetition as their foundations, such as some forms of electronica, not… Read More
Tourist – Placid Acid
Sometimes, all it takes for a song to be great is a melody. Flourishes and additions are all well and good, but a song built on solid foundations and does exactly what… Read More
The Twilight Sad – No One Can Ever Know
There is something about the cover art for the new Twilight Sad [Facebook/Twitter] record that is disturbing. Even for a band who deal in almost exclusively dark imagery, the eye-catching sleeve for… Read More
Django Django – Django Django
They say necessity is the mother of invention, and this maxim would seem to be the reason for the existence of a band like Django Django, boldly going where few of their… Read More
School of Seven Bells – Lafaye
Oh dear. You know when a song is so good, you fear you may just struggle to get past it on the album? Well, that’s precisely the position I find myself in… Read More
First Aid Kit – The Lion’s Roar
I’d like to think I have a fairly broad music taste. (I am a music critic after all, give me some credit please!) However, one of the genres I cannot stand and… Read More
FOE’s Bad Dream Hotline, Part 2
Here is the second in this series of our FOE videos (they’re kind of an exclusive, don’cha know), created around the concept and major theme of her new record, Bad Dream Hotline:… Read More
General Fiasco – Don’t You Ever
I’ve come to a realisation in recent weeks: I’d never caught it before, but the newer songs that appeared on General Fiasco’s Buildings back in 2010 showed that the band were already moving… Read More
