ReCoup
Worthwhile ()
Worthwhile represents the debut work of electronic rock out?t Recoup. Renamed after a recent member reshuf?e (they used to be called Coup – get it?), the record represents their attempt to put their live performances on record.
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Dan Sartain
Join Dan Sartain (One Little Indian)
Oooh! Dan thinks he’s dangerous.` Just look at him pointing a gun at his head on the cover. And listen to all those songs about tattoos, skulls, murder and casual misogyny
Scissors For Lefty
Underhanded Romance (Rough Trade)
Overly mannered vocals, de-rigueur disco beats, spiky New Wave guitars… Scissors For Lefty have all the latest zeitgeist elements down pat. That ‘zeitgeist’ literally translates as ‘time ghost’ is apt as the sounds of Scissors For Lefty seem to have wafted into the present day buoyed up by the spirits of long gone gigs
Chris Singleton
Twisted City (Brownpaper)
Chris Singleton’s something of an oddity.` Born and bred in Dublin, his debut album is nonetheless themed around eleven stations on the London Underground
Sound Team
Movie Monster (Parlophone)
I have always been a fan of David Lynch. He is one of the few filmmakers that can make a film with as much depth as a novel, full of bizarre symbolism and disorientation, but without losing the main thread of the story. But when I watched ‘Mulholland Drive’, I found myself somewhat at a [...]
