Archive for the 'Music' Category
“With a Buzz in Our Ears We Play Endlessly” is the approximate translation of Sigur Ros’ fifth full length album and is maybe the most dramatic departure from their trademark sound so far. Previous albums have had songs that build up slowly to an emotional and musical crescendo; the songs had a panoramic sound that [...]
It’s kinda hard to believe that I’m writing about a new Nine Inch Nails album less than six months after their last one was released. Ghosts I-IV was an experimental release, that was created with remixing and sampling in mind, sold online for a variable price. The Slip is almost the opposite: a lean, 10 [...]
The Flaming Lips have finally delivered a trailer for their much awaited film Christmas On Mars, promising freaky technology, aliens and a strange dude in a Santa suit. It’ll be at selected film festivals and there’s a DVD set for a Christmas release appropriatly.
Suitably strange for a band that wrote the song “Psychiatric Explorations of [...]
Been a bit busy at work recently, which hasn’t help me writing as I usually listen to music all day in the office. However, a fairly full training period has been underway, and couple with a lot of changes to the way we work, my hours are now erratic to say the least. Today I [...]
It seems funny looking back how picked apart Radiohead’s 6th album was; 10 years since their debut the group had surged from being alt. rock nearlys’ to the “best band in the world”. Then they appeared to commit commercial suicide with the brave and expeirimental Kid A and Amnesiac, released just a year apart from [...]
When you listen to the Arctic Monkeys, you think of the North of England; working class accents, gritty upbringings, kitchen sink dramas and the minutiae of everyday life. Listening to the Last Shadow Puppets makes me think of continental Europe, the mystery and intrigue of the cold war, the epic sweep of romance and operatic [...]
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