We Were Promised Jetpacks
By Bernhard Bessing • Oct 7th, 2011 • Category: jrbig, long playersSometimes it’s too easy to dig too deep, to over-analyse, to become too involved with an artist.
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Secret Gang Handshakes
By Bernhard Bessing • Oct 7th, 2011 • Category: jrwee, short playersPretty far-removed from his former band Won Mississippi, this debut solo effort from Rob Wilkinson shows that emos (small ‘e’) don’t necessarily die, they just grow up and develop musically.
Feud
By Bernhard Bessing • Aug 31st, 2011 • Category: long playersWe all do it of course. “Oasis copyists”. “Beatles rip-off.” “Blatantly reimagining the entire career of Sun Ra”.
The Scaramanga Six
By Bernhard Bessing • Aug 31st, 2011 • Category: long playersHuge ambition is often the death knell for a band, as if a band don’t fall flat on their face they may vanish up their arse. (Step forward, Bono). Keeping your tongue in your cheek when you[‘re a band with big ideas is therefore perhaps the answer. And the Scaramangas – I think – are [...]
United Fruit
By Bernhard Bessing • Aug 29th, 2011 • Category: jrbig, long playersA late review due to a postie’s clear liking for frantic, noisy Glaswegian rock, but Fault Lines is an album that warrants a review
