Issue 11
Electrelane
Also featuring: The War On Drugs, WATERS, Television Personalities & more...
Album reviews include: John Cale, Girls, Cymbals Eat Guitars, Walls, St Vincent, Mogwai, Little Roy, Jeffrey Lewis.
Plus, live we catch PJ Harvey, Beirut, Sic Alps, Comet Gain and more. Plus, we delve into music docs with reviews covering the anniversary edition of 1991: The Year Punk Broke and Wild Combination: A Portait of Arthur Russell, plus film reviews in the shape of Kill List and Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy.
Features
Ex-WOD member Kurt Vile could have easily taken the role of success story of the y...
Live Reviews
PJ Harvey
When your ticket stub reads clearly in bold ‘No Support’ you know it’s for a reaso...
Sic Alps - Downdime - Former Bullies - No Guts
No Guts are propelled by two of the best, most loveable oddballs in Leeds, on brai...
Beirut
A few years ago, a friend of mine, once a fervent Zach Condon follower, fell out w...
Comet Gain - Help Stamp Out Loneliness - ABC Club
Indie-pop, it is well understood, is the preserve of the shy....
Film Reviews
Tomas Alfredson
The genre of "spy thriller" is not normally one that would send me running to the ...
Ben Wheatley
Sometimes the most effective way to scare isn’t a deranged psychopath or murderous...
Music Documentaries
Matt Wolf
Arthur Russell was a cellist, underground disco producer and composer who for a si...
Dave Markey
“'91 is the year punk finally breaks through to the mass consciousness of global s...
Album Reviews
Blood Orange
Originally, the music on Coastal Grooves was never intended to be release...
John Cale
Despite Cale’s technique and appropriation of elements and technologies others his...
Little Roy
Musician Earl “Little Roy” Lowe has been making records since the 1960s....
Girls
There seems to be a mammoth increase in bands returning to classic, or certainly s...
Jeffrey Lewis
I'd forgotten how great Jeffrey Lewis is until I saw he had some UK shows lined up...
Cymbals Eat Guitars
After realising a fantastic first album in 2009’s self-released Why There Are ...
