REVIEW // LET’S WRESTLE – IN THE COURT OF THE WRESTLING LET’S
Apparently recorded in a Whitechapel basement beneath the only ukulele shop in Europe, ‘In The Court of The Wrestling Let’s’ is a fun, dynamic and catchy album with excellent musical hooks and energy-filled melodies.The first noticeable flaw, however, is that the vocals are pretty terrible, but much like the seventies punk bands that Let’s Wrestle [...]
-->REVIEW // FANFARLO – RESERVOIR
Welcome to the world of Fanfarlo. It’s a sort of understated instrumental frenzy that combines a violin, a mandolin, a glock, a sax, a trumpet, a banjo alongside, of course, the conventional instruments in a way which immediately emulates the drama and beauty of the likes of Arcade Fire and leaves the listener with no [...]
-->REVIEW // TIGERS THAT TALKED – BLACK HEART, BLUE EYES
It’s not often that a first EP, released on an obscure label and distributed by a company I haven’t previously heard of, manages to astound me. A lot of releases, many of them a debut, can be good but not great, and indeed every now and again one is great.‘Black Heart, Blue Eyes’ is more [...]
-->REVIEW // THE MARS VOLTA – OCTAHEDRON
Omar Rodriguez-Lopez and Cedric Bixler-Zavala have to be two of the most prolific creative personalities in modern music. The fact that ‘Octahedron’ is the fifth studio album in nearly as many years under the Mars Volta banner is impressive in itself, but throw in two live records, one EP, 12 Rodriguez-Lopez solo efforts, and a [...]
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