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Phosphorescent made six unique records in the last ten years. The recently released Muchacho is the best of the bunch, and despite the fact that 2013 is still young it’s a serious candidate of the year lists. The music of singer-songwriter Matthew Houck from Athens, Georgia, has always been multi-colored, but the palette on Muchaco [...]
This is our 400th post on the Fuzz. Enjoy! Two shoegaze/dreampop releases by a London-based and mixed-sex band in the same week. Yesterday I celebrated Veronica Falls’ sophomore album and today the debut of the brand new The History Of Apple Pie inspires me to write sweet words. This colourful quintet formed in the year that [...]
One and a half years ago I labeled the self-titled debut of the London based band Veronica Falls as one of the best debuts of 2011. ‘The best of the best from Lush, Belle & Sebastian, The Pixies, The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart, Ride, The Velvet Underground, The Xx, The Dum Dum Girls, [...]
Album review of Phantom Limb’s third album ‘The Pines’. By Erwin Zijleman. Last week I reviewed the extra ordinary album of New Orleans band Hurray For The Riff Raff. Today’s turn is Phantom Limb from British Bristol. ‘The Pines’ is their third album (being thankful to a reader of my blog for giving me this [...]
Album review of Hurray For The Riff Raff’s album ‘Look Out Mama’. By Erwin Zijleman. The name Hurray For The Riff Raff doesn’t immediately ring the folk and especially not the country bell. But the band from New Orleans certainly sounds like it. ‘Look Out Mama’ is the fifth (!) album of the band. It [...]
Album review of Fiona Apple’s album The Idler Wheel Is Wiser Than The Driver Of The Screw And Whipping Cords Will Serve You More Than Ropes Will Ever Do. No record on this year’s list of expected releases has been more anticipated by yours truly than Fiona Apple’s The Idler Wheel (short for The Idler [...]
Last year the husband & wife duo Peaking Lights surprised us with their extraordinary sophomore album 936. The Bay Area based band had produced a gem full of languid and intoxicating tunes that were echoing an array of contemporary influences, ranging from synthpop, lo-fi and psychedelia to dub, reggae and Krautrock. After initially having you [...]
After reviews of new albums by Paul Buchanan and Ultravox we round up this eighties revival week with a look at the latest incarnation of one of Britain’s most original and eccentric artists: the esteemed Kevin Rowland. Of course Erwin is always a few days ahead of us and his review of One Day I’m [...]
Lucky Fonz III Roosbeef, Marine Dorleijn (Moss), Marike Jager, Charlie Dee, Eefje de Visser, Leine. All these fine Dutch artist have in the last ten years competed in the singer-songwriter category of de Grote Prijs van Nederland. It’s an impressive list, but unfortunately not every category of the competition is this successful in bringing forth [...]
Ekstasis is by far the most fascinating album I’ve heard in recent months. It’s the second album by L.A. artist Julia Holter. Ekstasis has been labeled as anything from freak folk to ambient, minimal music, psych, drone, experimental, avant garde and so on. The sheer number of different labels rightly suggests that not one of [...]