Everything From Volume 1 Issue 29
![]() | One More Grain - Isle Of Grain (Found in: Albums) If Underworld swapped their beats for jazzy drones, John Lydon reformed PiL... |
![]() | British Sea Power - Do You Like Rock Music? (Found in: Albums) And so, like their US equivalent Interpol, British Sea Power have this year had to broach the conundrum of the 'difficult third album'. |
![]() | Feist (Found in: Features) Even if you haven’t heard of Feist you’ll have heard her. You’ll know her because she recently loaned the video to her single ‘1234’ to those nice people at Apple. |
![]() | Monkey Swallows The Universe at Christmas Fuzz (Found in: Live) With a band containing two fifths of The Long Blondes and local heroes Monkey Swallows the Universe... |
![]() | Los Campesinos! - Hold On Now, Youngster... (Found in: Albums) A friend of Loud And Quiet’s is such a Los Campesinos!-head that he hates ‘Hold On Now, Youngster…’ |
![]() | Dandi Wind (Found in: Making Waves) There’s the sunglasses-on, head-down, fingers-up, and there’s the chin-skyward, teeth-flashing, arms-flailing. |
![]() | Those Dancing Days at Water Rats (Found in: Live) TO CONDESCEND THOSE DANCING DAYS is to despise Noel Edmonds, lust after the cast of Hollyoaks and outwit Bruce Forsyth. |
![]() | Yeasayer - All Hour Cymbals (Found in: Albums) If the very sight of the words ‘world’ and ‘music’ alongside each other sends chills running down your spine, look away now. |
![]() | frYars (Found in: Making Waves) Ben Garrett's reputation is already preceding him. The teenager also known by the moniker frYars is recounting a recent interview... |
![]() | Fantastic Plastic - Now That's What We Call Music (Found in: Albums) Swallowed up by Universal just months ago, Fantastic Plastic has consistently been one of the best indies around... |
![]() | Lightspeed Champion - Falling Off The Lavender Bridge (Found in: Albums) Formerly Dev Metal of screamo, cult party boys Test-Icicles, Dev Hynes (yeah, Metal was a stage name)... |
![]() | Blood Red Shoes (Found in: Features) When I first saw angsty Brighton duo Blood Red Shoes blitz the crowd at the Insomniac’s Ball in November last year, I never imagined... |
![]() | Sons And Daughters (Found in: Features) They’ve toured with Morrissey and Franz Ferdinand. They’ve played with Nick Cave and the White Stripes. |
![]() | L&Q Cool and Tool lists! (Found in: Features) Last month (Dec 07) we published our Humans of The Year and Sub-Human Scum of The Year lists in Loud And Quiet Magazine... |
![]() | Kitsune Maison - 5 Gold Edition (Found in: Albums) Volume 5, ‘The Gold Edition’, could just be Kitune’s best collection yet. |
![]() | Albums of 2007 (Found in: Features) Ten years after The Beatles reinvented the world with ‘Sgt Peppers’, punk gobbed all over it. |
![]() | Magnet - The Simple Life (Found in: Albums) A regular soundtracker of American tween-soaps The OC and Six Feet Under, offbeat Norwegian digital-folkster Magnet is back... |
![]() | The Sequins - The Death Of Style (Found in: Albums) The latest darlings of the stellar Tough Love Records, The Sequins are a ten-legged noise machine. |
![]() | Muscles - Guns Babes Lemonade (Found in: Albums) Vocals are the least important aspect of dance music, right? First is the beats – this is dance music after all. |
![]() | Nine Black Alps at Fuzz, Sheffield (Found in: Live) After releasing their second album to mediocre reviews, Nine Black Alps begin their tour at Sheffield's Fuzz club.. |
![]() | Lykke Li (Found in: Live) Five minutes ago infinitely more hands would have been in the air. |
![]() | Love Is All - Love Is All Mixed Up (Found in: Albums) Love Is All’s debut album ‘Nine Times That Same Song’ was one of 2006’s great underrated gems... |
![]() | Robots In Disguise - We Are In The Music Biz (Found in: Albums) There was a brief moment of hope a couple of years ago... |
![]() | School Of Language - Sea From Shore (Found in: Albums) While Maximo Park were busy meandering into A-list mediocrity... |
![]() | The Duke Spirit - Neptune (Found in: Albums) Beautifully observed lyrics, reflecting the heartbreak of clinging onto a destructive relationship... |
![]() | Pete And The Pirates - Little Death (Found in: Albums) In French, a ‘little death’, or a ‘petit mort’, is slang for an orgasm. |
![]() | Youthmovies - Good Nature (Found in: Albums) It is still February, and the evenings will get lighter, and darken again, before the year is out. |
![]() | Various Artists - Alcopopular Vol. 2 (Found in: Albums) Harry And The Potters – a Boston duo who base their simple garage pop on J K Rowling’s brainchild – feature on this second mixtape from this indiest of indie labels. |
![]() | This Is Pop - This Is Pop (Found in: Albums) ‘This Is Pop’ – an assertively titled mini-album by an assertively titled French trio... |
![]() | Be Your Own Pet - Get Awkward (Found in: Albums) Like a keg loaded US college party, ‘Get Awkward’ inevitably descends into total chaos. |
![]() | The Metros at Club Fuzz, Sheffield (Found in: Live) Having signed to the now revered 1965 Records, and having toured with the success stories... |
![]() | Health - Health (Found in: Albums) LA almost shouldn’t emit music this interesting. It’s hardly fair. It’s already got the movies. |
![]() | Tellison at Dingwalls (Found in: Live) A safe distance from the not-so-great-fire-of-London, Dingwalls plays host... |
![]() | Land Of Talk at KCLSU (Found in: Live) So PJ Harvey trades her trusty axe for a piano, Sleater-Kinney implode on themselves and Karen O ditches riffs for fashion. |
![]() | Metronomy at Central Station, Wrexham (Found in: Live) Metronomy take to the stage like a Kraftwerk wet dream. |





































