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Here’s a catcher-upper that won’t make it to many end-of-year lists and I doubt if my Fuzz colleagues will allow it to be on ours. Not that the Cast of Cheer’s high-octane first physical release isn’t very good, it’s just that you would expect better timing from a Math Rock outfit. Releasing you edgy and [...]
Dublin’s quartet The Cast of Cheers have chosen their band name well. Their bouncy mix of math-pop and new wave is cause for jubilations. Catchy like Two Door Cinema Club, spiky like Foals and edgy like Dutch Uncles, the band, who released their debut album Chariot in 2010 as an online freebee, sound very twenty-tens. [...]
Plumb, the fourth release by Sunderland’s Field Music equals the level of its double disc predecessor. Considering that Field Music (Measure) was a Fuzz favorite in 2010, to continue on the same level is quite an achievement for David and Peter Brewis. Compared to Field Music (Measures), Plumb is more compact (15 songs averaging 2:30 [...]