Fuzz You!
According to Jonathan Higgs, lead singer of Everything Everything, he doesn’t sing as high or as fast on the new album as he did on the band’s debut Man Alive (2010). This means that I must be playing Arc at the wrong speed, because all I hear is very high and very fast singing. There’s [...]
18. St Vincent – Strange Mercy (US) 4AD Annie Clark’s third effort is no less of a musical adventure than it’s predecessor. She fuses art folk, salon-melodies and electro-rock into a fascinating musical that is wonderfully intriguing and pleasant from the first until the last act. 17. Wild Beasts – Smother (UK) Domino records There’s [...]
Album and concertreview Dutch Uncles, november 7th, Melkweg oude zaal – On the most superficial level Manchester’s Dutch Uncles isn’t a far fetched supporting act for Wild Beasts. Both bands stand out from the pack of British alternative music through a sound that is original and does not necessarily classify as contemporary. Both bands have [...]
This Monday there was a surprise concert by UK’s indie-outsiders Wild Beasts. It wasn’t a surprise concert for anyone who kept track of their agenda. But until my Blackberry alert went off at 19:45 I was completely oblivious to the fact that the quartet from Kendal were playing at the Paradiso that night. Turns out [...]
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 [...]