Belbury Poly interview by Emmy Hennings
‘The Hidden Door,’ an early track on the new Belbury Poly album, From An Ancient…
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Tactics interview by Emmy Hennings
Woooaaaarrrhhhddsss! The first Tactics album begins with a word, words, as a cry strung up…
ii – Landlakes (Feral Media)
I keep getting the opening chords of this album stuck in my head, almost as…
Low @ The Spiegeltent, Sydney Festival, 18/1/08
What disturbs and thrills me about Low is the violence at their core. It’s a…
Kimmo Pohjonen @ Angel Place, Sydney (18/01/08)
I came to Kimmo Pohjonen’s single Sydney Festival performance from the Spiegeltent and the stark…
Burial: “Tunes for the last party on earth.” Interview by Emmy Hennings
The bass already sounds as if it was coming from elsewhere. Huge but muffled, spread…
Sigur Ros – Heima DVD (EMI)
Anyone lazy enough to describe Sigur Ros as “glacial’ deserves a good whack over the…
Burial – Untrue (Hyperdub/Shogun)
What is desire without an object? Nostalgia, by some formulations; the unresolvable yearning for what…
Animal Collective – Strawberry Jam (Domino/EMI)
There’s something queasy about Animal Collective when they get going; a churning, glint-eyed momentum that…
Control (Madman)
Control is a film under a burden, and perhaps that was inevitable. It’s a film…
Panda Bear interview by Emmy Hennings
Interview with Noah Lennox By Emmy Hennings In May 2007, founding Animal Collective member Panda…
The Clientele – God Save The Clientele (Popfrenzy)
Is nostalgia merely a trick of the light? The Clientele come wrapped inside a permanent…
Unkle Ho – Circus Maximus (Elefant Traks/Inertia)
I’m going to rate this album as if the purpose of it was to provide…
The Twilight Sad – Fourteen Autumns & Fifteen Winters (FatCat/Inertia)
Considering the number of prominent Glaswegian indie bands over the years it’s remarkable how few…
Stars Of The Lid – And Their Refinement Of The Decline (Kranky/Inertia)
If ‘ambient’s signifies a kind of music that aspires to the condition of backdrop -…