Issue 6

Twin Shadow
Also Featuring: Luke Haines, The Lovely Eggs, Weekend, Wreckless Eric, Patti Smith & more...

Hello, welcome to issue six of KATP. This month we talk to the caramel smooth Twin Shadow whilst also rapping up our two parter with the Donovon of Trash - Wreckless Eric. Reviewed, we have: James Blake, Tim Hecker, Deerhoof, Mogwai, Radiohead, Sonic Youth and much more. We also look at and rate all the Oscar-buzz films, as the awards season is upon us.

Features

I arrive at the Windmill in Brixton just in time for my scheduled interview with f...
Wreckless Eric is a really great failure....
This time of the year is ripe for the proverbial buzzing of bands, the pulsating, ...
The week beginning January 24th, Patti Smith was in London playing gigs, telling s...
Rock music is dead....
How did the eggs begin?...

Film Reviews

David O Russell
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Charles H. Ferguson
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Darren Aronofsky
The hype surrounding this film has been of such magnitude it’s amazing the film it...
Alejandro González Iñárritu
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Tom Hooper
I approached this expecting a bombastic, sprawling period drama - after all, big i...
Joel & Ethan Coen
There are not many directors working at the pace that the Coen brothers are curren...

Music Documentaries

Scott Carey
During a section of explanation regarding New York’s No Wave scene of the late ‘70...
Brendan Toller
I used to work as a multimedia seller for Borders, so you could say I once was par...
D.A Pennebaker
D.A....

Mike TV

HBO’s latest must-see drama spectacle Boardwalk Empire has just hit our shores lik...

Live Reviews

The Walkmen
Two months after their visit to Salford’s St Philip’s Church, The Walkmen are back...
The Go! Team
At one point in tonight’s set, front woman Ninja shouts out to the crowd “OK, this...
Mogwai
With the new record fresh in my mind, I arrive just in time to catch what appears ...
Jonny
Jonny is the project of Teenage Fanclub’s Norman Blake and ex-Gorky’s Zygotic Mync...
The Duke Spirit
One thing about music as an art form is its tangibility and immediacy, its ability...
Crystal Castles
It’s about thirteen seconds into opening act Magnetic Man when I start feeling lik...

Soundtracks

Being a big time for Radiohead and Radiohead fans alike, we thought it somewhat fi...

Album Reviews

Toro Y Moi
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British Sea Power
British Sea Power have always been a better band in theory than in practice....
Deerhoof
The paradox of Deerhoof, as I call it, is this: they are a genuinely great band wh...
Esben & the Witch
Last year, one of the major success stories that shook up indie-dom was the surpri...
Fat Worm Of Error
In an ever-increasing world of cynicism and regurgitated ideas, it often makes cre...
Hunx and His Punx
Despite having heard them only twice before, during the Hunx and His Punkettes UK ...
James Blake
There’s something about the human voice that holds an emotional resonance deep wit...
Radiohead
This is perhaps the least cohesive and structural set of songs that Radiohead have...
Sebadoh
Upon its release back in 1994 (when indie was still called ‘indie rock’), ‘Bakesal...
Sonic Youth
Safe to say, from the beginning, Sonic Youth have done it all their own way, never...
Tennis
The very genesis of this record is enough to make you sick in your mouth....
The Lovely Eggs
Oddly enough, for a band so seemingly unhinged, The Lovely Eggs are all about bala...
The Soft Boys
Right now everyone in the idiot (mainstream) press is busy pissing themselves over...
The Radio Dept
There are many adjectives you could use to describe Swedish dream-pop trio The Rad...
Tim Hecker
As Montreal-based noise artist Tim Hecker could attest to, developing an entirely ...
...And You Will Know Us By The Trial Of The Dead
Right, I’ve been listening to this album over and over again and to tell you the t...
Banjo or Freakout
Holing yourself up in your bedroom, just you and your laptop, seems to be the orde...
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