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Concertreview OMD at Tivoli, Utrecht, May 17th 2013 – I’m not going to spent a lot of words on the OMD gig yesterday at Utrecht’s Tivoli. It wasn’t a night of great surprises, just good old synth fun. Apart from the addition of seven new songs from the excellent new album English Electric the set [...]
The May holiday is over. I have a lot of catching up to do – I was looking for our review of the last album by Phoenix, when I realized that it had been released before the Fuzz was born. The band have clearly not used the four years in between to stage a musical transformation. [...]
The Fuzz’s verdict on the Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark (OMD) reformation album History of Modern (2010) was that it wasn’t terrible, just terribly redundant. Our expectations for band’s twelfth album therefore weren’t high, but the letdown we anticipated has been cancelled: English Electric is a surprisingly good record, with many clever references to OMD’s [...]
A national disaster has struck our country. It’s trending topping on the net and on TV and in the newspapers they report about nothing else. No, we haven’t gone bankrupt, there has not been a major flood or a terrorist attack – although opinions differ on this. The disaster is the song that was written [...]
Norway’s honey kids were our favorite new act at the 2012 edition of Eurosonic. A few weeks after the punk-rocker’s impressive gig at Vera, we were shocked by the news that their 20-year old drummer Anders Askildsen Eikås died in a car crash. The remaining members soon issued a statement saying that they would continue the [...]
On the ‘recently added’ playlist on my Ipod, the songs of Laura Mvula’s debut album, alternate with songs of Marnie Stern’s fourth album titled The Chronicles of Marnia. Mvula’s smooth Brit-soul is ten times more accessible and easier to describe than Stern’s insurgent experimental noise rock and so naturally it’s impossible for me to focus [...]
There’s a world of difference between the album synthpop veterans Depeche Mode think they’ve recorded and the way that it’s perceived by leading music critics. On the band’s website singer Dave Gahan says: “With this release we’ve completely shifted our idea of how to create an album. When we hit a wall where we realize [...]
Concert and album review, Palma Violets at Bitterzoet, Amsterdam March 28 2013 – Generally speaking the British are just as sober as us Dutch. When it comes to Britpop, however, every shred of reasonableness seems to disappear from their minds. At least three times a year the entire kingdom is convinced that the new Arctic [...]
‘the ambition to have no ambition’ is what connects the artists who are part of the Dutch Underground. At least it is according to Marc van der Holst, drummer to fuzz favorites Hospital Bombers and one of the creators of this scene that is not a scene. Van der Holst expounds on this pretentious statement [...]
Whilst the industry’s incrowd is gathering in Austin to pick on the latest buzz bands at SXSW, Indiefuzz featured Johnny Marr (1963), Eric the Bos (1950), John Linnell (1959) and John Flansburgh (1960). If that’s not enough for you to unfriend us and move on to more contemporary blogs then check out today’s review of [...]