Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavillion

On paper, Animal Collective should be terrible.

Ezekiel Honig - Surfaces of a Broken Marching Band

A New York City native, and founder/label manager for the Anticipate and Microcosm labels, Ezekiel Honig concentrates on his idiosyncratic brand of emotively warm electronic-acoustic music.

Using the loop as more of a tool than a rule, Honig paints outside the lines, …

Interview: Vivian Girls

Words: Alistair Clark

Vivian Girls are an understated, harmonising trio from NYC who have been brining their reverb drenched noisy pop to foreign lands on their recent tours. I recently caught up with them and found about their new label venture, their frolicks with …

TV on the Radio - Dear Science

TV on the Radio are fucking great aren’t they? I mean really, really great. There’s something really pleasing about this band and everything they do, and this year, they beat the hype that surrounded them and released what I would say is, their best record yet. Some …

White Denim - Workout Holiday

First time around I completely missed both this record and the trio of garage rocking Texans that wrote it. It wasn’t until hearing it that I recognised “that was from the Channel 4 advert”, but there’s so much to this record than that. The thing is, my …

The Death Set - Worldwide

The Death Set make bright, colourful party punk. Operating, unsurprisingly, out of the musical haven of Baltimore, Maryland, they give off some of the positivest vibes encoded to mp3 in a long time.
‘Worldwide’ is fun. It’s a collection of short songs, just as …

A Place to Bury Strangers - A Place to Bury Strangers

Originality. It’s an odd beast. Does it really exist?
Is all that’s left to pick up the pieces and re-arange them in a new way? NYC’s a place to bury strangers are certainly not doing anything new but it does sound somewhat different.
They name check Crowley, …

The Bug - London Zoo

With the ambience of Burial threatening to distill dubstep into a ghostly presence, inhuman and intangible, The Bug’s ‘London Zoo’’s sheer human urgency is a much welcome return.
Kevin Martin, producer genius steps forward once again for the next installment of …

Sunn 0))) - Dømkirke

DOOOOOOOOOOOOM.
Sunn 0))) are playing in a Church in the heart of black metal country, Dome church in Bergen, together with Lasse Marhaug and Attila on vocals. There is a huge church organ. One of the tracks is called appropriately, ‘Why Dost Thou Hide Thyself In …