Fuzz You!
Jonathan Meiburg and Will Sheff formed the basis of both Okkervil River and Shearwater and used to reserve the livelier material for the first band and the more quiet work for the second. Nowadays Will Sheff focuses entirely on Okkervil River, while Jonathan Meiburg is pulling all the strings at Shearwater. Last year Okkervil River [...]
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 [...]
Album & Concertreview, Love Inks, september 28th, Paradiso, Amsterdam Love Inks or the Guillemots? It wasn’t until late in the afternoon that I could decide between the Texan lo-fi trio playing upstairs at Paradiso’s and the Birmingham five playing in Bitterzoet at the same. In the end Love Inks won. Not only because it meant [...]
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, [...]