Fuzz You!
Album and gig review Ducktails, february 17 Paradiso, Amsterdam – Matt Mondanile looks more like the guy you call when your computer has crashed at work than the guy who brings you the warmest of jangle pop on any icy cold Sunday night. But don’t worry, there’s a stereotype for him too: something with college, [...]
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 [...]
7 Destroyer – Kaputt (CAN) Merge Perhaps it’s the relativization of his art that enables Dan Bejar to make a record that sounds as mellow and ripe as the comeback album of an old pop star who’s been given the oppertunity to mature in the interesting way people do away from Sounds, Smash hits, Melody [...]
Real Estate – Album and Concert Review, live at the Bitterzoet, Amsterdam, October 27th 2011. A sure sign of being a presumptuous prick is when you are not happy about who else is on the guest list. Going on the four pages the doorman at Bitterzoet was flicking through last Thursday night to find our [...]