Fuzz You!
Few will dispute that the performance of New Jersey’s Caged Animals on Saturday was the low point of this weekend’s edition of London Calling and there was some stiff competition. Because of front man Vincent Cacchione’s friendly disposition, his gaily jacket and most of all because they are one of only few London Calling band’s… [Continue Reading]
Nearly one-and-a-half-year ago, I predicted on dekrentenuitdepop.nl that we were going to hear lot more from the teenager Laura Marling. I made this statement reviewing her second album Because I Can I Speak, which had a richer sound compared to its widely acclaimed debut Alas I Can not Swim. Laura Marling’s third album, A Creature… [Continue Reading]
Givers is a band from Lafayette, Louisiana, that could still turn out to be this year’s trendsetters of the American alternative circuit. In Light, the band’s recently released debut, is filled to the rim with varied and irresistible pop songs. Opening Track Up Up Up leans heavily on African rhythms. It’s wayward boy-girl vocals and a apparent… [Continue Reading]
It’s a small wonder that it took a year for Bliss Release to have been picked up by the alternative music press. Considering that Cloud Control makes the kind music that easily picked up at the moment. And they make it well. If Bliss Release had been noticed when it should have, it would have… [Continue Reading]
Most critics who after Workout Holiday (2008) were in doubt whether White Denim was more than just another garage band from Texas, were convinced by the bands sophomore album Fits (2009). Fits was extraordinary album, that didn’t allow itself to be categorized. I, myself heard bits of progrock, psychedelica, funk, avant garde, jazz, Tropicalia, hardrock,… [Continue Reading]
In the summer of 2008 the debut album of Fleet Foxes was not only unanimously voted the best album of 2008, but is regarded by many the best record in recent years. How can a band surpass a debut album that has been praised by virtually everyone? Often this is mission impossible but after three… [Continue Reading]
In the last sentence of this review I will state, without blinking, that All You Need Is Now is not only one of Duran Duran’s best albums to date, but also an album that can easily compete with the majority of recent synthpop releases. Let me stress that I am not a fan of the… [Continue Reading]
In the past couple of weeks in England the debut album ‘Chasing After Ghosts’, from the Sheffield band The Crookes, was hailed as a sensation. This was no big surprise to me since I have seen them named multiple times since last December in the British music press top picks for 2011. Could all the… [Continue Reading]
The first two albums by the British band Noah & The Whale differed from each other like day and night, or rather like pleasure and pain. 2008’s Peaceful, The World Lays Me Down was a sunny folk-pop album on which front man Charlie Fink and his girlfriend Laura Marlin sang their love. Released only one… [Continue Reading]
To be honest, I had nearly forgotten about Alamo Race. The band from Amsterdam produced a modest Dutch pop classic late 2006 with Black Cat John Brown. Frontman Ralph Mulder and his companions certainly took their time recording a follow up, but now that Unicorn Loves Deer is in the stores, I can only conclude that… [Continue Reading]