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NoWave
Nine Inch Nails have just released their first major label album since Year Zero and it's been getting high reviews. For me, the intervening period has been... well... let's just say not great.
Showing posts with label Music. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Music. Show all posts
Wednesday, 25 September 2013
Monday, 23 September 2013
David Bowie - Ziggy Stardust
The definitive song from the definitive glam rock album. Really, this review could stop right there. But it won't. I wouldn't shortchange y'all like that.
Wednesday, 18 September 2013
Madness - Baggy Trousers
The first song I ever danced to in a nightclub, when I was 17 years old, was this and to this day I've never seen a dancefloor respond so quickly and fun. With the clatter of schoolbells that opens the tune, circles of conversation were tossed aside as the dancefloor was rushed with people.
Monday, 16 September 2013
Tuesday, 10 September 2013
Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds - Tupelo
It starts with a crack of thunder and an ominous bass pulse. The voice of a mad preacher cuts through the air with protestations of doom. A guitar shimmers and twists in and out of hearing. That black rain comes down.
Friday, 6 September 2013
Talking Heads - Burning Down The House
I've been on a little bit of a kick for Talking Heads in the last few weeks. I've always been a fan but for the last wee while, they've occupied a fairly regular place on my spotify favorites. Let's see if I can explain why.
Thursday, 5 September 2013
Anais Mitchell - Way Down Hadestown
A concept album about a greek myth in a post apocalyptic future setting heavily inspired by great depression era America while worryingly relevant to our situation today? Sign me up!
Tuesday, 3 September 2013
Beardyman - Twist Ya Ankel
Beatboxer Beardyman released his debut album 2 years ago and at first, I hated it. But on a repeated listens, it went from one of my most disappointing releases to one of my favorites.
Monday, 2 September 2013
Excision - 8 Bit Superhero
When did dubstep become a dirty word? Ok, perhaps a better question would be when was it not, but regardless, today we take a look at a wonderfully filthy little track from Excision.
Sunday, 25 August 2013
Wednesday, 21 August 2013
Kavinsky - Nightcall
This time, I take a look at Kavinsky's Nightcall, otherwise known as that song from Drive.
Monday, 19 August 2013
Deftones - Passenger
I consider myself to be a touch of a nu-metal apologist. Hell, I'll even muster up a defence for a few limp bizkit songs (although their newest is astoundingly awful) But if there's one band I don't ever feel I have to apologise for, it's the deftones.
Wednesday, 14 August 2013
Can - Halleluwah
So imagine a german modern classical musician went to New York and met Andy Warhol and more importantly, seen the velvet underground. So he goes back home and recruits a bunch of friends who don't particularly listen to rock music and they form a rock band. Their first singer has a nervous breakdown after the release of their first album. So they recruit a busker off the street despite (or possibly because of) the fact that he knows only three chords and is making up the songs off the top of his head. With their perfect lineup coalesced they retreat to a castle and record their masterpiece.
Sunday, 11 August 2013
Yila ft Scroobius Pip - Astronaut
Scroobius Pip first showed up on my radar as he did for most people, at the side of his partner in crime Dan Le Sac on their (still to this day awesome) debut single Thou Shalt Always Kill. Over time, Pip proved that that was not hyperbole, that he would bring gold on anything he worked on. So in light of their soon to be released next album, I've been going on a bit of a trawl through their previous tunes.
Wednesday, 7 August 2013
Kanye West - New Slaves
It seems like, once again, Kanye West is intent on causing controversy. In his latest of his wide accumulation of headlines, he's caught flak for pronouncing his second verse on "New Slaves" to be the greatest rap verse of all time.
I open the debate… The 2nd verse of New Slaves is the best rap verse of all time….meaning … OF ALL TIME IN THE HISTORY OF RAP MUSIC, PERIODIs he right?
— KANYE WEST (@kanyewest) July 20, 2013
