Issue 7
The Mountain Goats
Also featuring: Luke Haines, Sic Alps, Mick Harvey, Josh T Pearson, Timber Timbre & more...
We have album reviews from all over the place, including: Mazes, Pandabear, The Strokes, Low, Bob Dylan and loads more. Live, we have Deerhunter, Best Coast, Kid Congo, Woods and then some. Mike TV takes a plunge into the weird world of Ugly Americans, while our soundtracks piece on Submarine is split in two because we just couldn't decide who was right. Plus, Films, Docs & more...
Features
After The Velvet Underground atrocity I safely manage to avoid any defrosted corps...
John Darnielle, if you aren’t familiar by now, is the founding and fundamental mem...
Film Reviews
Xavier Beauvois
Some films just bubble with quiet, understated beauty from the offset - and this i...
Nick Hamm
‘Killing Bono’ tells the almost true story of the McCormick brothers, whose inabil...
Rob Epstein
Rob Epstien’s film splices the 1957 obscenity trial with cartoon animation of Howl...
Jerzy Skolimowski
What starts as feeling like a pretty conventional western-world film soon transfor...
Richard Ayoade
I approached this with a sense of restraint and a reserved nature; a staring role ...
Live Reviews
Best Coast - Spectrals - Mazes
Mazes’ debut album (reviewed in this issue) is a delightful summer romp that embod...
Woods - Spectrals - The Doozer
To get straight to the point: The Doozer are dreadful....
Les Savy Fav
Tim Harrington is like a toddler who has recently learned to walk - you can’t take...
Kid Congo & The Pink Monkey Birds
It had been suggested that I interview Kid Congo, but I had no idea what I could p...
J Mascis and Kurt Vile & The Violators
Watching the night’s patrons spill into the venue, I had some fun trying to determ...
Deerhunter
Deerhunter have crafted a career path so varied and dense that live shows now allo...
Music Documentaries
Fabien Raymond
Filmed in 2001 in Lyon, France, this DVD documents part of the promotional tour fo...
Vincent Morriset
‘Miroir Noir’ is a document of Arcade Fire’s 2008 tour following the release of th...
Todd Phillips
In a cinematic sense, you expect as much as you can get from a music documentary, ...
Mike TV
Soundtracks
Album Reviews
The Strokes
This album was always going to go one of two ways: either the seething tension bet...
Architecture In Helsinki
Reviewing records can really make you go away and listen to the band’s back catalo...
Britney Spears
There’s a danger of sounding pretentious when describing music as “post-Gaga,” but...
Bob Dylan
In 2009 a collector named Jeff Gold found a tape box with the faint pencil scribbl...
Explosions In The Sky
Post-rock is dead. We’ve all known this for years....
Mazes
Reviewing records can really make you go away and listen to the band’s peer group,...
Parts & Labour
For a band that seems enamoured with the grand musical gesture, Parts & Labor ...
The Dodos
When attending last year’s Pavement-curated ATP, I was expecting to revel in the d...
The Feelies
It’s twenty years since The Feelies, a much underrated and shy band that still som...
Times New Viking
Reviewing records can really make you go away and trace their lineage, legacy and ...
Vivian Girls
Listening to ‘Share The Joy’ today, my mind wandered toward thoughts of the Vivian...
Crystal Stilts
From the get go there is a malevolent, sinister undertone to this record that cree...
