Dirty Projectors are a busy bunch. Following the release of Bitte Orca and the following worldwide tour, including some special dates playing The Getty Address with the orchestral ensemble Alarm Will Sound, they are now self-releasing a new project with…
Album: The Acorn – No Ghost
Bella Union, who release the band’s newest album, No Ghost, tell us that free from ‘the emotional weightiness’ of their last record, The Acorn are able to show off the real them, a lighter, more versatile sound than we might previously have known. There is certainly some truth in this – the album demonstrates a great deal more variety than previous records have, and is certainly less dark, thematically, than their last.
Editor’s picks… Laura Marling, Broken Sound Music, Wichita, Ödland, Hop Farm disaster
Hello, here’s the second installment of things-that-I-have-found-interesting-recently (pending snappier title). This week I’ve made a decision to go for a Virginia Woolf-style stream of consciousness (either that or I’ve lost my notebook with the things I planned to write about…
FFS New Bands Panel: Dan Leno & The Limehouse Golems
After spending months working away as Mutley, Raphael Verrion has returned with a full band and an even funkier name – Dan Leno & The Limehouse Golems. The panel went in to see if they could live up to their…
Album: Teenage Fanclub – Shadows
In some ways reviewing this album feels a bit superfluous; fraudulent, even. If the point of a review is to convey what an album sounds like, I can sum it up in a five-word sentence: it sounds like Teenage Fanclub.…
Brian’s Mixtape #37: Let The Sun Shine
Brian’s been having a lovely time at festivals over the past few weeks, and basking in the baking hot sun. Now the weather’s turned and he’s staying in to nurse his burnt feathers (not one for the factor 50, our…