Dan Bull
By Gerry Daley • Apr 30th, 2009 • Category: long playersFirst off, the misconception that a concept album is made by merely merging the tacks together in continuous play is an absolute fallacy.
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Vacuum Spasm Babies
By Gerry Daley • Apr 29th, 2009 • Category: jrwee, short playersThe Spasm Babies are a strange beast indeed. An Edinburgh band who seem to revel in the spirit and the bands of Glasgow
Stone Gods
By Gerry Daley • Apr 29th, 2009 • Category: short playersBrit Rockers, eh? That’s the first two words on the press release accompanying this, the fourth single from their “smash hit” album.
LA Roux
By Gerry Daley • Apr 29th, 2009 • Category: short playersI’m all up for revivals but are they really meant to last longer than the genre they are inspired by? It seems like this whole eighties resurgence has been going on longer than, well the eighties ever did.
Shoosh
By Gerry Daley • Mar 12th, 2009 • Category: long playersSwirling synths Picked guitar and then left. Soundscapes of uncomfortable beauty Pulses Dadaist in theory and practice Beat with no beat, you dig. The spoken word unspoken, the synthesis of nature formed and then de-con-struct-ed. Drone…and on. The sadness of a modulating tone and the pleasure in its repetition. Explain. SOUND!!! Beautiful in its scope, [...]
