27 April: t i r’s news bitch reports that Interpol has returned to the live circuit for the first time since October ’05. The morose rockers took the stage following The Jesus and Mary Chain at the Coachella festival, Indio, CA.
But the new music is not the only thing that’s getting ‘Pol fans all of a [...]
is released July 10 on Capitol and will be called Our Love To Admire. The tracklisting is:
Pioneer to the Falls
No I in Threesome
The Scale
The Heinrich Maneuver
Mammoth
Pace Is the Trick
All Fired Up
Rest My Chemistry
Who Do You Think
Wrecking Ball
The Lighthouse
Photo: chrisbuck.com
Imagine popping candy fizzing on your tongue during a spin on a waltzers ride on Mars, and you have a smidgen of the essence within 90s electro-pop act Bis.
From the moment they take to the stage, the crowd come under heavy attack from waves of shrieks, synths and disco beats, as Steve, Manda, and [...]
Play/Pause is a mainstream alternative/indie/Britpop night, borrowing also from the XFM playlist.
Where? The Albany, opposite Great Portland Street Tube.
What we paid £3 before 10pm, a fiver after
Crowd? Not an angular fringe in sight.
Atmosphere? Relaxed, where are all the pretentious ‘God made me indie’ types?
What we heard Pulp – Common People, Oasis – She’s Electric, Suede – Metal [...]
The hair’s more Hoxton than Harrow, the accessories are more hand-me-downs than, ahem, Accessorize and the attitude’s revivalistic. Conversation flits in between the rejuvenated Camden Crawl and the night Frog turned one. Looks like the whole of indiedom has descended on Kentish Town to celebrate Frog spawning birthday number three. There’s not a cake in sight [...]
Critics should note the time when penning a review, as an earlier listen today would have had it filed it under dreary pap. But it’s creeping into the small hours and this record’s lithe swirling swathes and ambient electronics make time seem less heavy.
Borne out of the creative partnership of San Franciscans Caleb Pate and Nephi [...]
Warning: Predictable rhyming follows in this review, like Allsop in his intended feel-good track of the Summer.
Walking around to the beat / In the August heat. That’s the essence of this downtempo song but it’s more like the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man wafting down the block.
Once this gets the other side of that tantalising, ooh what’s coming next? scratch-staccato guitar intro, the brilliant line: “Learn to waltz with stars / Cos who knows soon / Your spit will land on Mars”, shows this South London songster can trill about stuff outside our stratosphere whilst still sounding like he’s got his [...]
How can a song which utters the word ‘evil’ so often sound so saccharine? Is it some kind of subliminal message Denmark’s Arcade Fire soundalikes are dusting us with?
Just when you think this string-heavy track is going to amble along in its gentle but powerful plod, the lid comes off and whoah that’s a whole lotta [...]
Kraut-inflected, art-noise-perfected, all above the 12th fret. Chords? We’ll forget. But according to self-proclaimed obsessive-compulsive Yannis, it’s not lacking a tessellation of synth, guitar and percussion. On this debut single, that’s a moot point. The voice, trapped in an ever-tightening vice of cross-wired polyrhythm yelps, howls and yells. The new Rapture? No, but still worth [...]
