Issue 20

Codeine
Also Featuring: Lower Dens, TOY & more...

Album reviews: Liars, The Brian Jonestown Massacre, Japandroids, Daniel Johnston, Beach House, The Walkmen, My Bloody Valentine, Death Grips, King Tuff, Cornershop, Sweet Lights & more. Plus we check out the new Lawrence of Belgravia music doc and also check out Grimes and Of Montreal live.

Features

Codeine
When it comes to a band's name encapsulating their spirit, sound and feel, you can...
Lower Dens
Twin-Hand Movement was one of our favourite records of 2010 - it was an u...
TOY
The lithe silhouettes of London quintet TOY can just about be seen through the fog...

Music Documentaries

Lawrence Of Belgravia
Paul Kelly
In the Q&A session which follows the Leeds screening of Lawrence of Belgra...

Album Reviews

Beach House
Bloom
The music of Beach House conjures up a vast range of mental imagery to most people...
The Walkmen
Heaven
The Walkmen are like a filter and diode that absorbs music unquestioningly and unw...
My Bloody Valentine
EP's & Rarities
A selective retrospective, My Bloody Valentine’s new reissue/compilation, EPs ...
King Tuff
King Tuff
The first King Tuff record came out of nowhere about four years ago (despite the m...
My Bloody Valentine
Loveless
I remember being a teenager some evening in the early '90s, sitting in a parking l...
Japandroids
Celebration Rock
It seems only fitting of a record as explosive as Celebration Rock to sta...
My Bloody Valentine
Isn't Anything
My Bloody Valentine had been active for five years by the time they released their...
Weird Dreams
Choreography
The opening track from Weird Dreams’ debut album, Choreography, announces...
Sweet Lights
Sweet Lights
Not since the 1970s heyday of Philly Soul has the city of Philadelphia offered suc...
Death Grips
The Money Store
Death Grips should be banned from releasing albums....
The Brian Jonestown Massacre
Aufheben
The title of The Brian Jonestown Massacre's new album Aufheben roughly tr...
Daniel Johnston
Space Ducks
In this edition of KATP I am reviewing two albums by artists at a similar point ...
Cornershop
Urban Turban
The redoubtable Cornershop have returned with an album that feels like summer....
Liars
WIXIW
Since their inception over a decade ago, Liars have grown from an accused dance-pu...

Live Reviews

Various
Sounds From The Other City - Manchester
This being a sprawling, multi-venue crawl of an event, I had a hit-list of bands t...
Grimes
Grimes - Leeds
Remember that lesson, presumably a standard in most primary schools, where you get...
of Montreal
of Montreal - Leeds
When you’ve just released your most relentlessly tortured album, and you’re then f...

Film Reviews

Headhunters
Morten Tyldum
To guess the direction Mortem Tyldum’s pacey thriller will take, you need only pon...
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