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Singles
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Review: Throughout their near four-decade career, Depeche Mode have been smart at picking remixers. It should come as little surprise, then, that the CD version of "Where's The Revolution", the first single to be taken from forthcoming full-length Spirit, boasts a superb remix package. The original version - a typically dark fusion of synth-pop and rock produced by Simian Mobile Disco's James Ford - is given a going over by French tecnno/electro sort Terrence Fixmer, Ewan Pearson (with a few additional touches here and there from pal and longtime collaborator Sasse), industrial/noise artist Algiers (AKA Ben Greenberg) and fast rising shoegaze duo Autolux, whose rework pits Martin Gore's vocals against their own distinctive backing track.
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out of stock $7.22
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Review: Described by their label, Dais, as "a stirring new chapter" in their musical story, 'An object of Motion' has its roots in a coastal break main man Deb Demure made back in 2021. It was material recorded there, largely using a vintage, bowl-shaped 12-string guitar, that formed the basis of the four-track mini-album. These recordings were then expanded on with help from collaborators Rachel Goswell (Slowdive), Justin Meldal-Johnsen and Ben Greenberg. It's a decidedly psychedelic set all told, with Demure and company blurring the boundaries between neo-folk, psychedelia, the Cure, shoegaze and the sort of saucer-eyed, turn-of-the-90s bagginess associated with the Stone Roses. Most impressive of all, though, is 'Yield To Force', an undeniably cosmic, layered and effects-laden instrumental that ebbs and flows over 15 magical minutes.
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Álbumes
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Review: David Lynch and Chrystabell's collaboration on the album Cellophane Memories unfolds as a haunting journey into Lynch's surreal musical realm. Directed by Lynch himself, the music video for 'Sublime Eternal Love' sets the stage with Chrystabell's layered vocals, weaving a tapestry of ambient passion. The album, slated for release from Sacred Bones Records, continues to intrigue with its latest single 'The Answers to the Questions,' blending muffled beats and deep guitar tones under Lynch's lyricism of dramatic romance. Lynch's experimental approach to production, described as "passionately ambient" by critics, layers Chrystabell's vocals in an eccentric yet captivating manner. The duo's creative process, marked by spontaneous lyricism and Chrystabell's engineering finesse, yielded ten tracks ranging from the reverb-laden 'Two Lovers Kiss' to the introspective 'Reflections in a Blade.' Their collaboration spans decades, rooted in a shared vision that embraces musical accidents and experimentation to conjure a unique sonic beauty. As the release date approaches, Lynch contemplates additional visual accompaniments, underscoring his deep connection between music and imagery. For fans of Lynch's cinematic ethos and Chrystabell's ethereal vocals, Cellophane Memories promises a profound exploration of love, dreams, and the enigmatic allure of their creative partnership.
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Review: In her solo work, cult Melbourne musician Carla Del Forno has previously shown an aptitude for blurring the boundaries between slow-motion new wave, lo-fi immersive pop, outsider indie haziness, "dub damaged" dreaminess, trippy ambient soundscapes and the kind of krautrock-influenced bliss once perfected by Broadcast. Now based in the Australian bush, Del Forno has built on this distinctive, hard-to-pigeonhole sound on her latest album, which also mines the more laidback end of post-punk pop for inspiration. It's a tricky album to accurately describe, all told, but one blessed with a distinctive feel and sound - one reflective of her relative isolation, love of insomnia-fuelled late night recording sessions and the uniquely sweet but weary sonics of her voice. Like her previous albums, 'Come Around' is a triumph.
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A Night Of A Thousand Vampires: Live In London (2xCD + Blu-ray)
Cat: 0218134 EMU. Rel: 27 Oct 22
Blu-Ray
Review: Just a few nights before Halloween of 2019, The Damned brought, 'A Night Of A Thousand Vampires', to the London Palladium with the help of The Hammer House of Horror and cast of The Circus of Horrors. What transpired was a truly immersive, theatrical, career-spanning set delivered with a level of artistic showmanship that only the iconic horror-punks could pull off so brazenly. Recorded and filmed for immortalisation (or undead resurrection), you can now witness the orchestrated carnage in true fly-on-the-wall, slasher movie voyeuristic fashion.
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Cat: ICON 1058. Rel: 19 Dec 24
Review: The Damned are synonymous with the 1977 punk sound, with their tracks 'New Rose' and 'Neat Neat Neat' perhaps their best and arguably among the most iconic punk songs of all time. But ill content to rehash old tropes they set about writing more upbeat melodic tunes for Strawberries, which challenged their older fanbase at the time, who were used to thrashy three-chord rabble-rousing punk. The Damned frontman, David Vanian, is cited in the band's biography as saying that fans weren't up for the new material and said: "It's like giving strawberries to a f**king pig, this gig, you know?", which is where the album title came from. Nevertheless, this album did well in the charts with the sound of harmony vocals, cellos, sitars and brass sections, spliced into their hard punk DNA, delighting critics. It was also great timing - they were riding the coattails of guitarist Captain Sensible's solo success and number one single shortly before this album came out in 1982. Some 42 years later, the record is still a standout and in hindsight a deserved success that proves throwing caution to the wind and not delivering exactly what their fans expected of them was still the best way to go about business.
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I Feel Alright (DVD)
You Take My Money
Help
Born To Kill
Stretcher Case
Feel The Pain
I Fall
Fan Club
Alone
Fish
1 Of The 2
Problem Child
Neat Neat Neat
Stab Your Back
Sick Of Being Sick
See Her Tonite
You Know
New Rose
Pills
The Last Time
So Messed Up
Review: AD 2022: Live In Manchester is the long overdue live album from seminal homegrown punk legends The Damned, who announced plans in 2020 to undertake a reunion tour with the original line up of Dave Vanian (vocals), Brian James (guitar), Captain Sensible (bass), and Rat Scabies (drums), but naturally had to put things on hold due to the pandemic. Finally making good on their promise and reuniting for the first time in over four decades to descend upon Manchester's O2 Apollo in November 2022 for an immense set of 21 tracks taken from the band's first two (and only) albums to ever feature the classic OG line up; Damned Damned Damned and Music For Pleasure, both initially released in 1977, feast your ears on a true fly-on-the-wall experience if you were one of the many miserable millions to not experience such an iconic rarity in person that night.
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Review: The former Galaxie 500 couple Damon Krukowski and Naomi Yang have excelled themselves with 'Fortune', their tenth album to date yet a special one for a variety of reasons. Conceived as a soundtrack for Yang's debut silent movie of the same name, it's a beautifully understated collection of songs that weave a delicate spell. Dealing with memories of Naomi's late photographer father, and her bittersweet reflections on his influence as both artist and parent, the minimal and sparse folk-tinged dreampop of 'Fortune' is arranged in such a manner as to haunt the listener a long while after the needle has left the vinyl.
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Review: This release marks a keenly awaited debut album from New York's The Dear. It's a punchy mix of raw, electronica-infused indie with angular licks, sleazy vocals and plenty of textural tracks that have kicking rhythms. Crafted between the solo artist's home and studio in the Big Apple, the album features collaborations with acclaimed producers Dylan Brady, Emile Haynie, Romil Hemnani, Chris Greatti and more. The Dare is an alias of vocalist, songwriter and producer Harrison Patrick Smith who gained attention with the breakout single 'Girls' and his The Sex EP, which picked up widespread acclaim, as do his electrifying live shows and iconic DJ sets at Manhattan's Freakquencies party.
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Review: Back in 2014, Nicolas Jaar and Dave Harrington decided to draw a line under their Darkside project and move on. Spiral, their second album, is therefore something of a surprise, seemingly a product of two artists who decided to put last year's numerous pandemic lockdowns to good use. Musically, it's as heady as you'd expect, wrapping alternately wide-eyed and eyes-closed, soft-touch psychedelic rock grooves and art-rock sounds in the hissing, crackling, sonically detailed soundscapes that have become the hallmark of Jaar's ambient-leaning solo works. There are nods towards folktronica, spaced-out dub disco, acid jazz and late '60s Pink Floyd, but the overall feel is looser, hazier and more difficult to define. In other words, it's a quietly impressive concoction that rewards repeat listens.
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Golden Arrow
Sitra
Heart
Paper Trails
The Only Shrine I've Seen
Freak Go Home
Greek Light
Metatron
Review: Back in 2011, Nicolas Jaar joined forces with fellow Clown & Sunset contributor Dave Harrington for the Darkside EP, an impressive trio of untitled tracks that pitted the former's scratchy, near-paranoid production style against the latter's penchant for lo-fi indie-rock inspired fuzziness. Here, the duo dusts down the Darkside alias once more for a first collaborative album. Predictably, it's an impressive set, offering a collection of downtempo tracks that shuffle between crackly, out-there atmospherics ("Sitra", reminiscent of much of Jaar's Space is Only Noise album), echo-laden alt-rock experimentalism ("Heart") and heart-aching fragility (the James Blake-ish "Greek Light").
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out of stock $12.50
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Review: Having made their name on Hyperdub with a peculiar but steadfastly atmospheric brand of maudlin electronica, Darkstar seemed to have cheered up no end for their Warp debut, News From Nowhere. A far warmer, dreamier set than debut album North, it bristles with woozy, kaleidoscopic chords, tropical melodies and intoxicating vocals. There are moments of shoegazing blissfulness - the James Blake-does-MDMA vibes of "Track 4" and the wonky, indie-electronica of "A Day's Pay For A Day's Work" (think Harry Nilsson or early Pink Floyd, with synthesizers) - as well as intricate forays into string-laden downtempo pop ("Young Hearts") and poppy melancholia (the dub-fuelled "You Don't Need A Weatherman").
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out of stock $11.66
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Review: Five years on from their last full-length excursion, Darkstar return with "Civic Jams", a socio-politically charged set that Warp says was influenced by two decidedly disparate musical inspirations: the opaque, slowly shfiting sonic density pf shoegaze, and 30 years of the British bass music continuum. In practice, that means a striking fusion of tactile vocals, drowsy electronics, wall-of-sound chords and crunchy, off-kilter rhythms that tip a wink to hip-hop, grime, dubstep, breakbeat and more, while never sounding specifically like any of them. It's not a club-focused set, but it an undeniably impactful one, primarily because its inherent bittersweet beauty and weary melancholia seems in tune with these unusual, claustrophobic times.
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out of stock $12.20
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Basic Things
Inherent In The Fibre
Stoke The Fire
Cuts
Go Natural
A Different Kind Of Struggle
Pin Secure
Through The Motions
Tilly's Theme
Foam Island
Javan's Call
Days Burn Blue
Review: James Young and Aiden Whalley return for another album of sublime electronic pop on Warp Records. There's the dreamy and sublime trip hop of "Inherent In The Fibre" featuring the smooth vocals of Jamie Woon and also the dreamy deep house of "Stoke The Fire" which is a great way to start off an album already. And of course by now we've all heard the stunning single "Pin Secure" getting on its futuristic R&B tip so damn well and featuring Whalley's vocals. "Through The Motions" is another nice track on here with its catchy hook and overall pristine production. This will definitely be one of the year's most anticipated albums.
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out of stock $8.63
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Review: When Marie Davidson announced last year that she would be, "retiring from club music", many wondered what she'd do next. Renegade Breakdown, her first album recorded with a full band (L'Oeuil Nu), answers that question. It sees the Canadian artist and her new collaborators deliver suitably arresting, personal and ear-catching songs built on mixing and matching a surprisingly wide variety of musical inspirations, from Blondie, classic disco and mutilated heavy metal guitars, to Kraftwerk, Billie Holliday, Fleetwood Mac and Daft Punk. It's a big shift for the previously highly experimental artist, but thanks to her skill as both a a producer and performer, one that works magnificently well.
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Review: The legendary Dead Can Dance return with their first studio album in six years! Coming from a school of Australian music pioneers that include Severed Heads and Essendon Airport among their class, this latest missive sees the duo maintain their psychedelic, exotic and mystic sound, with hints of witchcraft and ritualisms eternally abound. The album pays homage to Dionysus, Greek God of wine, fertility and religious ecstasy, and naturally the album oozes these qualities itself. Across the LP Brendan Perry plys his hand to a mass of instruments heard as otherworldly to the west, with a specific set stemming from the Balkans with an ensemble use of zournas, gadulkas and gaidas. Meanwhile Lisa Gerrad's exquisite voice remains as haunting as it ever was, be up front in the mix or lurking amongst the album's lush atmospheres. The Dead Can Still Dance.
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Review: Given their track record of crafting moody fusions of black metal, post-rock and shoegaze, it's something of a surprise to find that Deafhaven's latest album (their fifth in total) is surprisingly positive-sounding and - whisper it quietly - accessible. Rooted in a blend of post-punk pop and reverb-laden late '80s bagginess, Infinite Granite is packed with ear-pleasing highlights. These include, but are no way limited to, the glistening dream-pop of 'Villain', the billowing ambient/shoegaze fusion of 'Neptune Raising Diamonds', the Smashing Pumpkins-eque 'The Gnashing' and the drowsy, late-night wooziness of closing cut 'Mombassa'.
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Review: It's somewhat surprising to hear that this is Kim Deal's debut solo album, what with fellow college rock and grunge legends of the late 80s and 90s - such as her former Pixies bandmate Black Francis, Sonic Youth and Dinosaur Jr. members - putting out solo albums like there's no tomorrow; Deal, who is a member of The Breeders, has held her band mentality for the most part. The arrival of this album with her as the star on the cover, however, is even more intriguing because of the wait. And the resulting material is as assured in its slacker cool feel and as anything she has put her name to in her career so far and full of weird and scuzzy sounds that make it a feast for the ears. Deal's great taste in production is part of her winning formula, with the likes of Josh Klinghoffer (former Red Hot Chilli Peppers), Raymond McGinley of Teenage Fanclub, Slint's Britt Walford and the late Steve Albini all credited on this astounding record.
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Review: Following on from the teasing single "Her Fantasy", Matthew Dear's latest album fully reveals itself, and provides a natural progression from the promise laid out by that initial track. In many ways the album is a step on from the bizarre synth-pop of Black City, delving into the freaky sound design of Krautrock to provide new textures of a more organic nature in amidst the machines. Tactile bass guitars shear themselves against intricate layers of arpeggio and crisp lashings of guitar, getting ever closer to an authentic band sound which Dear has been slowly edging towards since he flipped his own script with Asa Breed back in 2007.
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Review: Swedish duo Death and Vanilla, who apparently take their name from a Nick Cave song, are purveyors of a very particular kind of psychedelia, one that takes its cues from the more exotic, esoteric and experimental strains whose lineage began with United States Of America and Silver Apples and later found powerful adherents in Broadcast. As rich in celestial arrangement and atmosphere as it is in melody and instrumentation, 'To Where The Wild Things Are' is possessed of a sepia-tinted melancholy and a narcotic charm. A better display of sonic super-8 B-movie radiance would be hard to find in 2015.
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Review: Despite a number of significant personnel changes since the release of their previous album (the departure of founder member Chris Walla being the biggest), Death Cab For Cutie still seems to be in rude health. Now two decades into their ongoing career, the American band is still capable of producing glistening indie-pop brilliance, heart-aching torch songs and anthem-like festival sing-alongs. There's plenty of goodness to be found, then, on ninth studio album Thank You For Today, a set bristling with classic Death Cab For Cutie moments - not least the tactile bliss of "When We Drive", boisterous "Gold Rush" and chiming "You Moved Away".
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Review: It's been 13 years since Death From Above released their hell for leather debut 'You're A Woman, I'm A Machine' which established the Toronto duo's rocket-fuel dance-punk sound. Even though they're now a little older and maybe a little wiser, they don't seem to have taken their foot off the pedal with 'Outrage! Is Now'. The main difference here though, is that they seem to be more in control of their sound: the production is crisper, the band are tighter, the lyrics are wittier, and the songs have a little more breathing room than the 2-minute thrashes we've come to expect. Most of all, Death From Above appear to be pushing themselves and having fun in the process, and it's the freshest they've ever sounded.
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Review: This album was co-produced by Chris Walla (Death Cab for Cutie) and Tucker Martine (Laura Veirs). "The Crane Wife" is an extrapolation of the folk tale, a re-imagining of its themes on a broader canvas. For every song that touches directly on the interpretation of the Japanese legend, several more take their cue from the fabric of the story and stretch outward into other visions.
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Review: The Decemberists' eighth album sees the Portland gang return having significantly changed tack in the four years since their last album. Working with John Congleton, producer for St. Vincent and Future Islands, the band have made their use of synthesisers and electronics a focal point on 'I'll Be Your Girl', an element that had previously stayed in the background. To accompany this change, they've shifted their songwriting towards more synth-pop territory, evident on opener 'Once In My Life', 'We All Die Young' and lead single 'Severed'. A number of tracks bear the hallmarks of The Decemberists' classic Americana sound, but the contrasts at play make 'I'll Be Your Girl' their most adventurous record to date.
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Review: Experimental rock deities Deerfhoof ensure something will survive with their latest, adding gems to an already-bejewelled crown by way of innovation and chaos, not to mention doe-eyed beauty if you listen hard enough. A testament to the power of paring back, and the band's ability to follow their deeply textured and melodic 'Mountain Moves' album with something completely different, its among their best work to date. At least part of the aesthetic comes down to recording process - in this case the use of a built in laptop mic. Its limitations afford a distorted quality to the more intense tracks, not least those Commander-in-Chief riffs of 'Ye Saddle Babes', and the mangled drum rolls on 'Sympathy For The Baby Boo'. A trippy, rhythm-heavy and rough and ready guitar triumph.
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Review: The preaching sirens of Deerhunter return, long has everyone been waiting, since the band's Fading Frontier LP of 2015. The group have moved on from the pinky-pop nostalgia they've described as their last album, and moved into and towards a darker and more intensifying feel. The Atlanta group's eighth full-length in total finds itself tripping out on klaviers and chant-like numbers as heard in "Element" and the rickety jingle of album opener "Death In Midsummer". While there's some crooked-eye positivity to be found in the James Dean referencing "Plains", the masterwork of the band's ambient and cinematic scope remains as strong as ever, and alongside Bradford Cox's undeniable haunt, vocal contributions and extra (subtle) hints of subversive nihilism come from Cate Le Bon and White Fence's Tim Presley.
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All The Same
Living My Life
Breaker
Duplex Planet
Take Care
Leather & Wood
Snakeskin
Ad Astra
Carrion
Review: Brandon Cox's post-millennial dreampop troubadours have always rendered themselves peerless in the sphere of effects-pedal-laden euphoria, yet 'Fading Frontier' marks unchartered territory for the band, not to mention possibly their most accessible record to date. Arriving in the wake of some serious personal strife for Cox himself, this collection of sweetly melodious yet otherworldly-hued songs may be the most stripped-back and straightforwardly poppy that he's created, yet his heavy-lidded charm and ear for the ethereal remain unabated, imbuing verses with seductive texture and choruses with radiant hue. Confident and coherent, it's a new horizon for a visionary artist.
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Review: Psychedelic serenades worthy of our attention can be tricky to track down in the here and now, yet it takes little time to work out that the work of Morgan Delt, a bedroom auteur with as much warped songcraft to offer as excursions into the wilderness. 'Phase Zero' maps out an interstellar constellation between the '60s world of The Byrds, the '70s bedlam of Jean-Pierre Massiera and the contemporary slant of recent Flaming Lips, yet at all times it boasts a widescreen sweep and wide-eyed wonderment to match its sonic playfulness and melodic sleight-of-hand, resulting in a gem for the third-eye and both ears alike.
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Review: Mac Demarco has a certain cachet as a happy-go-lucky slacker, with campfire atmosphere to spare and chorus pedals set to stun, somewhat in the manner of a millennial Cat Stevens. The songs on 'This Old Dog' go way beyond - focusing on his relationships with family and friends, they're in equal parts mature, affecting and memorable in their melodic sleight-of-hand. Certainly the lazy charm and laid-back goofiness are present and correct here, but 'This Old Dog' displays a genuine reflective depth and emotional resonance.
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Review: A follow up to 2017's This Old Dog, everyone's favourite slacker-rock singer songwriter is back with Here Comes The Cowboy. Mixed at DeMarco's Jizz Jazz Studios in Los Angeles, the Canadian musician delivers a swooning and laidback take on folk western blues built on acoustic guitars and the odd sombre horn. The album opens with an unmistakeable vocal drawl, before we're met with DeMarco's trademark slow-tempo groove complete with eerie synths as the album progresses. While it contains many signature traits of a Mac DeMarco record, we're loving the new 1970s and blues rock influences best heard on "Choo Choo" and the second half of closer "Baby Bye Bye". It's easy to imagine DeMarco strumming these numbers in his rocking chair on a porch during sundown in the deep west, all sung while chewing on a single straw of wheat. All in all, Here Comes The Cowboy feels like a solid evolution for the cult hero.
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Review: When vital bandmember Andrew Fletcher suddenly passed away at the start of the sessions for 'Memento Mori', even Dave Gahan and Martin Gore wondered aloud whether Depeche Mode would continue. Yet somehow, Gore and Gahan put their much-discussed differences aside, knuckled down and produced something fittingly special: an album that may well be the iconic outfit's most consistent and impressive body of work for decades. Naturally, darkness abounds, with opener 'My Cosmos Is Mine' - all evocative vocals, distorted electronic beats, dark sonic textures and mutilated choral vocal samples - setting the tone for a set that once again brilliantly blends dark synth-pop, gnarled guitars and the kind of lyrical melancholia that stays with you for days. Highlights are plentiful, with our picks including 'Ghosts Again', 'Soul With Me' and closing cut 'Speak To Me'.
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Memento Mori (Deluxe Edition) (CD in hard-back book sleeve)
Cat: 196587 89812. Rel: 24 Mar 23
Review: This deluxe edition of Depeche Mode's latest album Memento Mori features a wealth of additional material, adding all manner of tangents in relation to the former trio's (now duo's) ultimate reflection on death. Centring on the mood of grief after the passing of the band's founding member Andrew 'Fletch' Fletcher, this is the first LP by a Depeche Mode made up of only two remaining members: Gahan and Gore. It hears a sadder, gloomier yet no less slowly euphoric sound, with lead singles like 'Ghosts Again' presenting a kind of conflicted melancholia.
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Review: Recent reviews of Spirit, Depeche Mode's first studio set for four years, have remarked at how angry and frustrated the band seems to be throughout. Messers Gore, Gahan and Fletcher are not particularly happy with the way the world is right now, and have laid down an album of rare intensity, seemingly fuelled by a growing desperation at political events on both sides of the Atlantic. Producer James Ford undoubtedly played a role in defining the sound of Sprit, but the combination of raucous, punk style guitars, thrusting electronics and big choruses is what we've come to expect from Depeche Mode.
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Spirit (Deluxe Edition) (2xCD in 28 page hard-back book sleeve)
Cat: 889854 11692. Rel: 17 Mar 17
Review: Recent reviews of Spirit, Depeche Mode's first studio set for four years, have remarked at how angry and frustrated the band seems to be throughout. Messers Gore, Gahan and Fletcher are not particularly happy with the way the world is right now, and have laid down an album of rare intensity, seemingly fuelled by a growing desperation at political events on both sides of the Atlantic. Producer James Ford undoubtedly played a role in defining the sound of Sprit, but the combination of raucous, punk style guitars, thrusting electronics and big choruses is what we've come to expect from Depeche Mode. This 'deluxe edition' boasts a bonus CD of alternative remixes, and comes housed in a book-style packaging.
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Review: Featuring as it does six discs of live recordings, Music Portrait is veritable feast for Depeche Mode fans. All of the material was originally recorded for radio broadcasts. Discs one and two feature what appears to be an almost complete 1998 concert featuring such perennial favourites as 'Policy of Truth', 'Personal Jesus', 'It's No Good' and 'Just Can't Get Enough' (a triumphant, sing-along conclusion all told), while CD three offers up 11 songs from a set recorded in 2005. The other three discs feature recordings of solo outings from Dave Gahan, with big Depeche Mode hits being joined by personal favourites and deep cuts from the Basildon Band's 40-plus year career.
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Review: If you're unfamiliar with what the Desert Sessions are, or were, then a little back story probably won't go amiss. It's 1997 and Josh Homme (Queens of the Stone Age) debunks to the remote desert enclave of Joshua Tree, California. He takes a handful of friends with him, and this being music that handful of friends are all suitably talented and - in many cases - pretty renowned. The results have been enshrined in the pantheons of music folklore, recorded and gradually released in sequential volumes. Here we have "Vol. 11 & 12" then, which features a host of notable characters. From Scissor Sisters' Jake Shears to ZZ Top man Billy Gibbons and Warpaint's Stella Mozgawa. Spanning the gamut from the cartoonish nod to Tom Tom Club or B52s ("Chic Tweetz") to the head-nodding, scuzzy rock 'n' roll goodness of "Noses In Roses, Forever", it's exploratory, beguiling and very much worthy of your time.
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Review: This outfit fronted by sometimes New Pornographers man Dan Bayer is now onto their tenth album, yet throughout this tenure at the fringes of the indie rock world their abstract, idiosyncratic and acutely personal assault has invariably shown signs of reinvention at every turn. Moreover, on 'Poison Season', they've excelled themselves, creating an atmospheric, melancholic and strangely sardonic song-cycle that expertly tackles the whys and wherefores of cutthroat urban life. Styles may vary here from brass-abetted bluster to wistful chamber pop, yet what he have here is essentially a 21st century variant on the art-pop iconoclasm of vintage Bowie, Lou Reed, and later-period Leonard Cohen, all three lofty comparisons not made lightly.
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Review: Futurismo proudly present the release all hardcore Devo fans have been waiting for: Art Devo 1973-1977, a lovingly packaged box set housing rare, unheard and obscure mind-blowers sourced directly from the vaults of The De-Evolution Band. This anthology takes you from the band's initial conception in Akron, Ohio to the moment before the world woke up to them, in a collection of sonic and visual art that captures Devo at the dawn of industrial death. This is a one-time only, strictly limited edition box set, never to be remade. De-evolution is real. The art of Devo is real. Here is the evidence.
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Review: Malian singer, songwriter and instrumentalist Fatoumata Diawara has enjoyed a highly successful career, not just as a musician but also as an actor. Even so, it has taken a string of collaborations - including an appearance on Gorillaz album Song Machine, Season One: Strange Timez - to bring her to a wider audience. London Ko, officially her third solo album, successfully highlights the open-minded, internationalist nature of her work, offering superb, immaculately produced songs that blend her Malian vocals, instrumentation and jangly guitar playing with nods to synth-pop, deep house, electronica, r&b and downtempo beats. Naturally, the album boasts several notable collaborations, with Damon Albarn guesting on 'Nesra', New York hip-hop-turned-soul queen Angie Stone lighting up 'Somaw', and Alberto Fomesca enhancing CD highlight 'Massa Den'.
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Review: These have been troubled times for the Brooklyn four-piece Diiv, who've not only lost their drummer to drug addiction but have seen vocalist Zachary Cole Smith battling both rehab and police attention in the run-up to this album. Lucky for everyone, however, they've channelled the tribulations into a bittersweet and rich selection of shoegaze-tinged indie-rock ditties that display both an understated sleight-of-hand and a cinematic sweep. Redolent of giants like The Cure and Smashing Pumpkins yet possessed of their own radiant charm, Diiv remain as irresistible as their name is unpronounceable.
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Review: DIIV's fourth album, Frog in Boiling Water, is a haunting yet mesmerizing testament to the band's resilience and creativity. Produced by Chris Coady, the album emerges after a tumultuous four-year journey that nearly tore the band apart. Drawing inspiration from Daniel Quinn's The Story of B, the album explores themes of societal collapse under end-stage capitalism, symbolized by the metaphor of the boiling frog. The lead single, Brown Paper Bag, sets the tone with its intersection of dream-pop and post-rock, capturing the band's blend of dejection and angst. Throughout the album's ten tracks, DIIV navigate a musical landscape that balances rhythms built from breakbeats with ethereal guitars and vocals. Despite facing internal conflicts and external pressures, DIIV's commitment to creating meaningful art shines through on Frog in Boiling Water. Each song reflects the band's collective struggle and resilience, offering a poignant commentary on the precarious state of the world. While the album's creation was fraught with challenges, including personal struggles and creative differences, DIIV emerges stronger than ever. Frog in Boiling Water is a testament to the band's ability to confront adversity head-on and channel their experiences into music that is both introspective and evocative. With its haunting melodies and introspective lyrics, Frog in Boiling Water is a special addition to DIIV's discography, showing the band's evolution and maturation as artists.
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Review: Of all the reformations of classic '90s band to take place in the last decade and a half, Dinosaur Jr's - now nine years in - has been one of the most uplifting. Moreover, this has been largely down to this decidedly scruffy and unassuming outfit delivering nothing more nor less than the same old fabulous thing, with no drama or no rock star frolics, yet bucketloads of the raw magic, chemistry and style that always elevated their records far above the grunge-rock hurly-burly. 'Give A Glimpse Of What Yer Not' has it all - memorable songs, wildly in-the-red production, a tight and electrifying band and J Mascis cementing his status as the greatest guitarist of a generation.
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Review: Dislocation Dance come straight out of the traps with the opener 'I Just Need A Friend'. It takes Parliament-esque funk into the 21st century and is an injection of sheer joy. Trumpeter Andy Diagram earns his keep with his stunning playing on 'Sugar Coated', while 'We All Need Love' and 'Really Should Know Better' transport you to sunny climes. 'Sugar Coated' sounds like Beirut thanks to the trumpet-tinged sparseness and tender, intimate vocal performance. And 'Can't Come Back' mixes jangle pop with electronica to great effect. It's truly great to see the return of Dislocation Dance as they have great credentials, having released some of their early material on Rough Trade and the first punk indie label, Buzzcocks' New Hormones.
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Review: Always a band operating entirely on their own peculiar wavelength, Django Django have shown no signs of compromise on this follow-up to their successful debut, and true to form have managed to crowbar rich experimentation, naggingly catchy melody and mischievous spirit into a poppy and perplexing gem of an album. Their methods may be mysterious, yet Born Under Saturn never sounds overly mannered or studied in its art, with these art-pop ditties perhaps making for some of the most joyful collisions of the cerebral and the immediate in four-minute packages since the glory days of Talking Heads. 'Sophomore slump' be damned.
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Review: Running through their third record, there's a feeling that Django Django have wildly eclectic tastes, and with infectious and nervous excitement want to create music that patches it all together, dodging pigeonholes and subverting their listener's expectations in the process. Stark changes in direction happen from track to track, and often within the songs themselves: take for example the tone set with powerhouse synth-pop opener 'Marble Skies', which is immediately turned on its head with second track 'Surface To Air', a brash and addictive dancehall jam, by the fourth track 'Tic Tac Toe' they're fully immersed in euphoric indie-psych. These changes in gear happen throughout the album, and it's to the band's credit that the individual songs and the album as a whole, bind together so well. This risk-taking is what makes Marble Skies a highly accomplished and ambitious album, but perhaps more importantly, their most fun album so far.
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Review: Unlikely as it sounds, and long though we've been waiting to say this, it may finally be that Pete Doherty has got his act together. Despite its title making one suspicious of a collection of half-formed demos, in fact this collection of appropriately dreamy yet surprisingly steely ditties might be the most well-rounded effort the old waster has created since the debut of his first band proper. Dealing with addiction, political tension and celebrity with charm and quip-handy insight, whilst nurturing arrangements that unite the garage-band rawness of the '60s with lusher pastures, it's a record to have his doubters thinking again.
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Cat: SOCD 1. Rel: 26 Apr 19
Review: Infamous Libertines and Babyshambles frontman Peter Doherty returns with his latest project, Peter Doherty and the Puta Madres, formed by members of Doherty's touring band from his 2016 "Eudaimonia" tour. He brings with him, of note, Jack Jones - also a member of Trampolene - who shares vocal duties and guitar collaboration with Doherty on the album. Expect a ragged, not entirely inharmonious, array of spangled guitars, boot-skootin' fiddles, broken down jazz and deconstructed mega blues. A good one for those smokey nights of Laphroaig when lamenting the ups & downs of one's life and times, all spent in an irreverent tone of UK punk and blues, or as the band call it: an intimate portrait of love, loss, being lost, happiness, tragedy, addiction and the power of the human soul to transcend its darker levels
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Peter Doherty & The Puta Madres (2xCD + DVD)
Cat: SOCD 1X. Rel: 26 Apr 19
All At Sea: A Film By Roger Sargent (DVD)
Review: Infamous Libertines and Babyshambles frontman Peter Doherty returns with his latest project, Peter Doherty and the Puta Madres, formed by members of Doherty's touring band from his 2016 "Eudaimonia" tour. He brings with him, of note, Jack Jones - also a member of Trampolene - who shares vocal duties and guitar collaboration with Doherty on the album. Expect a ragged, not entirely inharmonious, array of spangled guitars, boot-skootin' fiddles, broken down jazz and deconstructed mega blues. A good one for those smokey nights of Laphroaig when lamenting the ups & downs of one's life and times, all spent in an irreverent tone of UK punk and blues, or as the band call it: an intimate portrait of love, loss, being lost, happiness, tragedy, addiction and the power of the human soul to transcend its darker levels
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Review: Kickin' about in the construction sites of Perth's suburban neighbourhoods for some years now the Australian singer-songwriter Stella Donnelly's lands a debut album on Secretly Canadian, spelling her first full length record following her Thrush Metal EP from 2017. Beware Of The Dogs presents 13 fully fledged tracks with Donnelly's shoegazing vocals accented even more by her idiosyncratic Australian demeanour; Moody, bluesy, cutesy and cool, Donnelly's lyricism, while lamenting shitty tattoos, infidelity and patronising a-social behaviour, buffers a zone between tongue-in-cheek pop music, melancholic folk, to other subdued country and guitar styles. Beware of the bite.
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Review: Donny Benet is many things to many people - but everyone agrees you want him at the party, where he's likely to be the last one standing. Glossy, over-produced 80s pastiche disco pop is always going to be divisive, but despite the overbearing commercial feel here the Australian curio is one of the most honest and real artists out there. Real enough to include a karaoke DVD with his first album. The balding and mustachioed synth master is on fine excellent here, although the context is different to previous outings. Made in hotel room isolation at a time when a world tour was postponed due to a global pandemic, it encapsulates the need for optimism and fun at a time when nobody really knows where the planet, or modern society, will be in 12 months. Indulgent, open and smooth beats to take the blues away.
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