Demob Happy

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 they’re a band [...]

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Fantastic!!! Nick Cave!!! Album!!!
8/10
Nick Cave’s fourteenth album finds him trading in the gothic romanticism of his previous work for a swampy, sleazy garage-rock-influenced sound. Taking some of its cues from Cave’s recent ‘Grinderman‘ side project and some of the wild border country atmospherics of his soundtrack work with Bad Seed Warren Ellis, Dig!!! Lazarus Dig!!! [...]

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Another View Point
7/10
Keigo Oyamada - aka Cornelius - has a curious sound that is at once lush and acoustic, but proudly synthetic and occassionally a little sterile. Point’s mix of funky house, beach boy harmonies, garage rock and other electronic ephemera feels somehow both spontaneously breezy and painstakingly intricate. The digital production is so fine, [...]

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