Fuzz You!
If it is not the best album of 2012, than surely it is the year’s ultimate indie album. Wild Nothing’s sophomore effort unites the best of what today’s alternative music has to offer in the tenties; post-rock as unsettling and restrained as Deerhunter, noise pop as melancholic and yearning as The Pains of Being Pure [...]
I wasn’t planning on writing a review to Era Extraña until I read that OOR and several music blogs feel that Alan Palamo aka Neon Indian has fallen back from his position as front runner to an exciting new musical genre to a place somewhere in the rear, amongst the recreational participants. Such a bogus [...]
Rarely have I seen a band do two such completely different performances within the timeframe of a single year. Indiefuzz described Deerhunter’s concert in Trouwgebouw in May of last year, as paced and civil. The band routinely played obvious songs from Microcastle and tried out one or two songs from what would become Halcyon Digest. [...]
Band-Album, Label, Country 1 Beach House-Teen Dream, Subpop, USA 2 Fenech-Soler-Fenech-Soler, B-unique, UK 3 Yeasayer-Odd blood, Secretly Canadian, USA 4 School of seven bells-Disconnect from desire, Ghostly International, USA 5 Field Music-Field Music, Memphis Industries, UK 6 Tame Impala-Innerspeaker, Modular, AUS 7 Wild Nothing-Gemini, Captured Tracks, USA 8 Janelle Monaé-The Archandriod, Bad Boy, USA 9 [...]
15. Crystal Castles – Crystal Castles (II) 14. Deerhunter – Halcyon Digest ‘Halcyon Digest is eerily accessible, uplifting even, like treading on dead leafs in a forest of yellow and golden brown.’ 13. Yeasayer – Odd Blood ‘Yeasayer are as complete as a band can be, experimental but also the creators of timeless dance tracks’ [...]