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album | Big Dada
24 October 2003
Upwards comes across as more thoughtful than those who've only come across Turn It Up Little and Get Over It might expect, with slow soulful tracks of introspection and social commentary in mutual complement with bouncing hip hop that you can't help but dance to, grinning like an idiot.
by Demented Toddler
album | Domino
25 September 2004
Martine McCutcheon played Tiffany on EastEnders, before breaking away into the music career she 'always wanted to pursue', in which her fame...
by Ed Chamberlin
album | Planet Mu
18 January 2004
The gloriously named Aaron Funk has released an unbelievable five albums since 2001 under the moniker Venetian Snares. The Canadian has made a name...
by Ed Chamberlin
album | Lo Recordings
8 October 2004
Théodore is a Greece-based artist with a fetish for old music boxes, or so it would seem from the unwieldily titled long-player. It’s a...
by Ed Chamberlin
album | Melodic
2 February 2004
To celebrate their fifth year and 20th release, the good people at Melodic have put together a 14-track compilation of their bands' best material....
by Ed Chamberlin
album | Everest Records
17 November 2004
During the 70s prog rock gradually found itself stubbornly striving for higher levels of technical, conceptual and compositional complexity to the...
by Ed Chamberlin
album | The Leaf Label
29 November 2004
There are a lot of interesting things happening in Denmark right now music-wise: Under Byen are creating some shocking sensual stuff with...
by Ed Chamberlin
album | Jester
17 February 2005
There are some record labels that become like old friends to you. You know the ones: they don't just spew out crap like someone who has mistaken the...
by Ed Chamberlin
album | Accidental
17 January 2005
The nature of soundtrack work is such that the true intentions and emotions of an artist are slightly obscured by the task of matching sound to...
by Ed Chamberlin
album | Warp
17 February 2005
Pin-pointing the birth of electronic music is more difficult than you think. Often people will bring up Kraftwerk’s name, as they certainly...
by Ed Chamberlin
album | Adaadat
17 February 2005
This album has some of the funniest and most simple cover artwork I have ever seen, especially when taken in context with the music itself. A...
by Ed Chamberlin
album | Deep Water Recordings
5 April 2004
Released earlier this year, Normal Position's Boyfriend's Car seemed to revel in its lack of subtlety. Shamelessly melodic and pop-like in...
by Ed Chamberlin
album | FatCat
5 April 2004
For people who make such gorgeous music, Múm certainly put themselves through hell to get there. Summer Make Good, their second...
by Ed Chamberlin
album | The Leaf Label
31 March 2005
Great production but sketchy songwriting from Manitoba that was.
by Ed Chamberlin
album | Static Caravan
26 April 2005
There is a school of thought which holds that a landscape will influence the soundscapes recorded there. Sigur Rós'...
by Ed Chamberlin
album | Canine Records
5 June 2005
Deep Sea Diver opens this album with a collection of submerged, static drones and muffled vocals reminiscent of Can’s Future...
by Ed Chamberlin
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