Dirty Projectors -Bitte Orca 8/10 FIRST PUBLISHED AT THE LINE OF BEST FIT Dirty Projectors are a band so singularly unconventional that I wondered how they had managed to gain so much popular attention – although their recent David Byre collaboration (the excellent ‘Knotty Pine’, from Red Hot’s much admired ‘Dark Was the Night‘ compilation) [...]
Dirty tricks
May 15th, 2009 · 7 Comments · Alternative, Folk/Acoustic, Music, Pop/Rock
Tags:Amber Coffman·Dave Longstreth·David Byrne·Dirty Projectors·Experimental·Folk·leftfield·pop·R&B·soul
Serene Velocity: a Stereolab Anthology
June 5th, 2008 · No Comments · Alt-rock, Folk/Acoustic, Music, Pop/Rock, post-rock, Prog, Psychedelia, Shoegaze
Stereolab – a novice’s view 8/10 Stereolab are a long-time leftfield favourite that seem to have drifted in and out of critical favour during their prolific recording life. Somewhat derisively referred to as an “art-school” band at stages in their career, they mine a similar, but less abrasive, territory to Broadcast: psychedelic retro pop flavoured [...]
Tags:Acid Jazz·art school·Freak Folk·French pop·kalaedoscopic·krautrock·leftfield·Psychedelic·Retro·Shoegaze