Fuzz You!
Album and concert review, Beach House, Melkweg, Amsterdam, May 26th 2012. It took me a couple of weeks to fall in love with Teen Dream early 2010, but once I did it became one of the most passionate affairs I’ve had with an album since the eighties. I immediately bought Beach House’s first and second [...]
Another review we should have done months ago. St Vincent’s Annie Clark is a tiny woman with a huge musical imagination. Since hearing the dreamt up ‘Jazz-pop-chanson-theater music’ of her second album Actor (2009) I’ve been hooked. Her solo-performance last year in the Melkweg, as opening act to Grizly Bear was equally impressive, with a [...]
The last couple of weeks I’ve heard people use 50 different words for mist, all of which significantly less appreciative than the 50 words the eskimo’s allegedly have for snow. But the Fuzz have good news for all you commuters out there. There’s a plus side to taking three times longer to get to work and back and [...]
Album and concertreview, Wild Beasts, May 21st 2011, London Calling, Paradiso – Last night I fell asleep with Wild Beasts’ Smother playing on my headphones and had a vivid erotic dream. WTF I hear you think. Well, a journalist friend told me this weekend that one of the first rules of writing an article, whether [...]