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.