FIRST PUBLISHED AT THE LINE OF BEST FIT Californian acid rockers Sleepy Sun follow up last year’s ‘Embrace’ with another serving of massive, sun-blasted riffs. On ‘Fever’, however, they subvert the dynamics of ostentatious heaviosity by adding some infectious boy-girl folk pop ( ‘Ooh Boy’, ‘Rigamaroo’) and some compelling sonic curveballs that keep the listener guessing to [...]
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Sleepy Sun – Fever
May 13th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Alt-rock, Alternative, Folk/Acoustic, Music, New Wierd America, Pop/Rock, post-rock, Prog, Psychedelia
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The Very Best of David Holmes – The Dogs Are Parading
April 18th, 2010 · No Comments · dance, Music, Pop/Rock, post-rock, Prog, Psychedelia, Shoegaze, Soundtrack, Trip hop
FIRST PUBLISHED AT THE LINE OF BEST FIT At some point over the last decade David Holmes’ brand of retro mishmashery seemed to fade from the zeitgeist despite the fact that the Northern Irish producer was reaching a wider audience (and no doubt keeping his bank manager happy) with soundtrack work. His turn to the [...]
Tags:cinematic·David Holmes·jazzy·Psychedelia·Retro·Shoegaze·Trip hop
Caught in the Beak>
October 24th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Alt-rock, Alternative, Music, post-rock, Prog, Psychedelia, Psychedelic
Beak>- Beak> 6.5/10 FIRST PUBLISHED AT THE LINE OF BEST FIT Subterranean bass throbs, some cod-ghostly wailing and vaguely arabesque improvisations on a rusty sounding organ … ’Backwell’ is the opener of the self-titled debut album by Beak>, a new band including Portishead’s Geoff Barrow. With its slighty nauseating retro synths fanning out mechanically over chugging [...]
Tags:Alt-rock·Billy Fuller·Electro·Electronica·Geoff Barrow·krautrock·Matt Williams·motorik·Portishead·post-punk·post-rock·Prog·psych·Psychedelia·Psychedelic
Black tie, White Denim
May 30th, 2009 · No Comments · Alt-rock, Alternative, Film, Folk/Acoustic, Indie, Music, Pop/Rock, post-rock, Prog, Psychedelia
FIRST PUBLISHED AT THE LINE OF BEST FIT White Denim – Fits 8/10 Such is the strength and depth (to borrow a football cliché) of music Stateside at the moment that I find myself with three acts on heavy rotation at the moment from Austin, Texas, alone. OK, so Spoon haven’t done anything lately but [...]
Tags:Austin·classic rock·garage rock·hardcore·James Petralli·loops·psych·Texas·The Live Music Capital of the World·White Denim
Brand NEU!, you’re retro
May 4th, 2009 · No Comments · Music, Pop/Rock, post-rock, Prog, Psychedelia, Various
BRAND NEU ! – Various artists 8/10 BRAND NEU! is a tribute to the influential German band (aka Klaus Dinger and Michael Rother) that brings together a respectable selection of artists inspired by the Krautrock innovators. There are one note chugging guitars and hypnotic motorik grooves aplenty in this beguiling compilation, which doesn’t suffer too [...]
Tags:compilation·Cornelius·Foals·German·Holy Fuck·Klaus Dinger·krautrock·La Düesseldorf·LCD Soundsystem·Michael Rother·motorik·NEU!·Oasis·post-rock·Primal Scream·School Of Seven Bells·Shoegaze·Sonic Youth
Light years from dark days
March 26th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Alt-rock, Alternative, Film, Folk/Acoustic, Music, Pop/Rock, post-rock, Prog, Psychedelia
Album Review: Super Furry Animals – Dark Days/Light Years 8.5/10 In a recent Pitchfork review Animal Collective declared that it must be “weird to be in a band with good musicians”, referring to the fact that they basically view themselves as electronic collagists than a band in the strict (i.e., formally trained) sense. It is [...]
Tags:Animal Collective·Bowie·glam rock·grooves·Gruff Rhys·harmonies·krautrock·motorik·Neon Neon·ooioo·Pop/Rock·pyschedelia·Super Furry Animals
What do antlers, tentacles, castles and stilts have in common?
March 21st, 2009 · 7 Comments · Alt-rock, Alternative, Indie, Music, post-rock, Prog, Psychedelia
Album Review: Crystal Antlers – Tentacles 7/10 FIRST PUBLISHED AT THE LINE OF BEST FIT Among the many acts hyped in 2008 there was a proliferation of new bands called Crystal something. Crystal Castles, Crystal Stilts and Cystal Antlers all came out of the leftfield to get blog love last year. Having been totally confused [...]
Tags:Alt-rock·Crystal Antlers·hardcore·Ikey Owens·Jonny Bell·lo-fi·Mars Volta·organ·Prog·Psychedelia·Psychedelic·Punk·Victor Rodriguz
Album Review: Baikonour – Your Ear Knows Future
December 6th, 2008 · No Comments · Alt-rock, Alternative, Electronica, Music, post-rock, Prog, Psychedelia, Shoegaze
FIRST PUBLISHED AT THE LINE OF BEST FIT Back to the future 6/10 ‘Your Ear Knows Future’ is the sophomore effort from Baikonour – aka Brighton’s French-born Jean-Emmanuel Kreiger – a veritable one-man band whose debut ‘For the Lonely Hearts of the Cosmos‘ was a heady blend of space rock and electronica. Where that first [...]
Tags:80s·Baikonour·crescendo·Fujiya & Miyagi·instrumental·Jean-Emmanuel Kreiger·Lee Adams·post-rock·Psychedelic·Shoegaze
Album Review: Greg Weeks – The Hive
November 16th, 2008 · No Comments · Alt-rock, Alternative, Folk/Acoustic, Indie, Music, Pop/Rock, Prog, Psychedelia
FIRST PUBLISHED AT THE LINE OF BEST FIT Voice of The Hive 7/10 A sombre flute, the clunking toll of a bell, a solemnly plucked acoustic guitar … cue medieval clichés: misty moats, drawbridges, hooded monks, damsels in distress. But hold on, it’s not Led Zeppelin IV … a shimmering drone, Mellotron, and suddenly all [...]
Tags:Baroque·chamber pop·Espers·Greg Weeks·medieval·Prog rock·Psychedelic
Album Review: Kieran Hebden & Steve Reid – NYC
October 24th, 2008 · 11 Comments · Alternative, Ambient, Best of 2008, Electronica, Folk/Acoustic, Music, post-rock, Prog, Psychedelia
FIRST PUBLISHED AT THE LINE OF BEST FIT Exile on ’25th Street’ 8.5/10 ‘NYC‘ is Kieran Hebden’s (aka Four Tet) fourth collaboration with veteran jazz drummer Steve Reid and while I won’t pretend that I have heard the other three, the word in the blogosphere is that this is the most equal of their partnerships, [...]
Tags:Best of 2008·Electronica·Folktronica·Four Tet·Fridge·improv·jazz·Kieran Hebden·metropolis·New York·Psychedelia·Steve Reid·synths