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More Free Christmas Joy Featuring Arcade Fire, Sufjan Stevens and The National

Posted on 20th Dec 10 by | comments 0

While participating in a BBC 6 take over mix, The National‘s Aaron Dessner and his twin brother Bryce, took the opportunity to debut some tracks they had worked on. The tracks features themselves, Arcade Fire‘s Richard Reed-Parry and Sufjan Stevens. “Sufjan Stevens makes a Christmas album every year for his friends…and this was a few years ago. Richie happened [...]

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Kids & Explosions – Shit Computer

Posted on 8th Nov 10 by | comments 0

Mashup albums can go quite sour quite easily, they can sound derivative and repetitive due to their nature. Kids & Explosions side-steps this and comes out swinging. This album isn’t just beat-matching and crossfading, it’s full of clever edits that make you re-think the source of the sample. A great example of this is Hand of Action [...]

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Arcade Fire, The Suburbs

Posted on 4th Aug 10 by | comments 1

Indie-rock outfit, Arcade Fire, have forged a career on crooning out angst-ridden anthems that deal  with themes of death, violence and religion.  These themes are often balanced by songs of life, love and hope.  However, there is no such balance on their impressive third record, The Suburbs, which is an altogether more bleak affair than [...]

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CODES – TreesDreamInAlgebra

Posted on 18th Sep 09 by | comments 0

Put aside the mildly flabbergasting title and you can expect to hear a pop-savvy record tinged with sadness rather than aggression – a refreshing alternative to a more immediate overdrive-on, balls-out sound noiseniks are likely to percolate over in and around these pages….

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DeVotchKa, Crawdaddy

Posted on 14th Aug 09 by | comments 4

DeVotchKa made a huge impression when I’d heard of them first a few years ago…….yea I did hear of them before Little Miss Sunshine……but I’m not one of those I-heard-of-Arcade-Fire-before-you morons. Oh no, I heard of them before Little Miss Sunshine by pure chance. An old housemate was playing a new Xbox game at the [...]

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Wave Machines, Wave If You’re Really There

Posted on 23rd Jun 09 by | comments 0

Kicking off with some repetition to prove the point that people really do ‘Say the stupidest things’, Wave Machines‘s debut seems to be an earnest affair. The opening track is a cute little number. Tim Bruzon‘s vocals are crystal clear, and it’s this refreshing clarity that slaps us round the face when Carry Back to my [...]

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