2024年12月12日 · The band had a clear concept for The Night: to make the kind of music you listen to with your eyes closed – a ‘headphone album’, as Bob Stanley describes it.The album was made to provide solace, too, connecting back to what Benjamin Myers, in his accompanying sleeve notes, identifies as the ancient tradition of humans listening to the sounds of nature to calm and console themselves.

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For those who know Gnod as purveyors of the sort of music that suits getting blasted and waving your arms around, latest album Spot Land might at first come as something of a shock. 2022’s Hexen Valley was a trans-Pennine bad trip with hints of the later Fall-era’s sludgy intensity but with (given the title, appropriately) bad-vibes murk, as if …

2024年10月2日 · “The Travelling Wilburys just wanted to play with Roy Orbison. In some ways, we’re doing that too.” Stephen Malkmus muses on his latest pursuit – an ensemble that’s a bit more than just a special new band: The Hard Quartet.Featuring the Pavement frontman alongside Emmett Kelly, Matt Sweeney and Jim White, the proudly leaderless line-up could be an AI-generated schematic of indie rock ...

2024年10月15日 · The next sound we hear on ‘Lift You’ is the drums – the steady, crisp percussion of Valentina Magaletti, before her Moin bandmates Joe Andrews and Tom Halstead add fairly unadorned, softly strummed guitar and the descending tone of a slide whistle, or at least a sample that bears a passing resemblance to one.

2024年11月21日 · Blawan is releasing a new EP through XL. Spanning four tracks, BouQ marks the UK producer’s second outing for the label, following 2023’s Dismantled Into Juice. It builds on that record’s sound, combining his own heavily warped vocals with hulking drums and the producer’s distinctive modular synth-based sound. To …

2024年10月31日 · A big reason why is simply down to Smith himself, how he literally sounds. That voice is still that voice, and it sounds like nothing has changed at all, that it’s still that feeling of half-sob, half-caress, a yearning that can trip up your heart. In a world of software fixes and AI recreations, all I can tell you is that having seen the band enough times over …

2024年11月18日 · Having previously worked with Dan Carey and Hot Chip’s Al Doyle and Joe Goddard, this is the first time they’ve self-produced. It has seemingly allowed them to lean more into their afrobeat-influences and expand their sound.

Baker's Dozen Slow Burners: Sean Johnston on the 13 Songs that Shaped A Love From Outer Space As much-loved club night A Love From Outer Space reaches its 15th anniversary, Sean Johnston – its co-founder alongside the much-missed Andrew Weatherall – picks 13 tracks that have soundtracked its journey from a Stoke Newington basement to an international community

2024年10月30日 · On Utopian Ashes, an album of fogeyish duets with ex-Savages vocalist Jehnny Beth, Gillespie strove to reinvent himself as a torch crooner, albeit one who still needed assistance from another singer.Following that yawn-inducing effort, Come Ahead was initially conceived as a solo album. We’re told it turned into a Primal Scream record when Gillespie asked the only other member remaining from ...