Antiquarian book dealer, illustrator, singer, taxidermist.
READ MOREYour worst fears about ‘Nothing’ are probably right. The late-year, post-album extended-play sounds like the runoff of a few constructions that didn’t make the cut for ‘Dedication’.
It’s hard to fathom that British Sea Power now have five albums under their belts.
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Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster
Blood & Fire
[Black Records]9/10
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Ask anybody who’s even vaguely interested in alternative music about The Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster (EMBD) and their response will almost certainly be, “Oh them, I liked them, what happened to them?” The answer is a long and torturous one featuring line-up changes, a new record label, substantial amount of drugs and a spell in more conventional employment. Fortunately though, it ends with “They’ve got a new album out!”. ‘Blood And Fire’, is officially their third album, and is a return to the sound of the band’s early, pre-mock goth career in that it brings back the frenetic energy and furious pace of that era. Guy McKnight’s distinctive bluesy vocals are again sounding like demented war cries over a barrage of cheese wire guitars and the influences remain as strong and diverse as ever – The Misfits, The Cramps, Nirvana, all are heard in snatches. It’s brilliantly inventive and heralds a terrific return from a great band.
By Tom Goodwyn
Your worst fears about ‘Nothing’ are probably right. The late-year, post-album extended-play sounds like the runoff of a few constructions that didn’t make the cut for ‘Dedication’.
Milagres are a Brooklyn-based quintet fronted by a certain Kyle Wilson, whose soaring vocal style sits somewhere between Thom Yorke and Chris Keating of Yeasayer.
On first encounter, ‘Bad Dream Hotline’ is your standard emo-goth release – black on black cover art, tracks called things like ‘A Handsome Stranger Called Death’ and ‘Dance & Weep’.
‘Out of Sight, Out of Town’ is an album that concerns itself, in the main, with casual sex.
When LA Vampires first released ‘So Unreal’ on a limited vinyl run in 2010 it sold out in a flash, perhaps because of its superbly kitsch artwork by Spencer Longo.
Dan Mangan is a husky-voiced, melancholic Canadian singer-songwriter who does all the things you expect husky-voiced, melancholic Canadian singer-songwriters to do.
Favourite Sons is the most recent project of Ken Griffin, formerly of nineties outfits Rollerskate Skinny and Kid Silver.
Synth enthusiasts must have been veritably jumping with joy of late (would a synth enthusiast do that sort of thing?).
A long lasting member of the American garage rock scene since the late Eighties, Mark Sultan has cooked up a hotpot of a new album.
Some very big noises are being made in the mainstream press over this Swedish duo, and their calculated pop sensibilities go a long way to explaining that.
This week we’ve been listening to new music from The Proper Ornaments, The Weeknd, Electricity In Our Homes, Sunless ’97 and Ceremony [pictured].
LISTEN HEREDropping his iPhone was the best thing that ever happened to Reef Younis.
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