Issue 17
Lee Ranaldo
Also featuring: Pop.1280, Xiu Xiu & more...
Reviewed: Mark Lanagen, Of Montreal, The Magnetic Fields, Bitch Magnet, Tall Firs, Shearwater, Windy & Carl, Pulp, Robert Pollard and more. Plus: live reviews from Real Estate, Field Music, Weird Dreams and The Men and also music docs covering Mogwai and David Bowie.
Features
Music Documentaries
Vincent Moon
Vincent Moon has fast become one of the most authoritative music filmmakers in rec...
Alan Yentob
Let’s get this out of the way right now: David Bowie probably doesn’t want you to ...
Film Reviews
Pawel Pawlikowski
Ethan Hawke may not instantly spring to mind as the man for a lead in a quiet, sub...
Alma Har'el
Somewhere along the shores of the Salton Sea, a peculiar saltwater lake in the mid...
Live Reviews
Field Music
When a show sells out completely at the Brudenell, you know you are in for somethi...
Real Estate
On arriving at a crammed Deaf Institute, it is apparent that New Jersey’s number o...
Weird Dreams
If you’ve ever picked up a copy of Vice magazine, you might imagine one o...
The Men
This was a hotly anticipated show - on top of the demand for two hotly tipped supp...
Album Reviews
Robert Pollard
Robert Pollard has released Mouseman Cloud at the same time as a new Guid...
Windy & Carl
‘For Rosa’ opens in a swirling fuzz of ambient crackle, as though someone on a dis...
Bitch Magnet
Bitch Magnet’s opening statement to the world is the first Star Booty tra...
Tall Firs
Out Of It and In To It sees Tall Firs back to the grass-roots nature of t...
Peter Broderick
In retrospect, perhaps, the title should have put me on guard....
Die Hard
If this band are opting for anonymity and revered obscurity then their chosen moni...
Three Trapped Tigers
Following the release of their highly praised debut album Route One or Die, London...
Pulp
The third of Pulp’s reissued trio of early albums is the most accomplished, but al...
Mark Lanegan Band
There’s something missing with this one. Call it listener’s intuition....
of Montreal
Midway through ‘Wintered Debts’, as the shimmering coalescence of lightly tinkling...
The Magnetic Fields
Stephin Merritt finds himself in a tricky situation in 2012....
Electricity In Our Homes
Considering that Electricity in Our Homes have in the past been accused of being s...
