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Underneath the Stars – Good Weather for an Airstrike
There seems to be an awful lot of music if this genre rattling around right now- the vaguely drone-y, slightly ambient with a touch of post rock about it. When it doesn’t come off, its all rather dull and dispiriting, … Continue reading
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Tagged Erased Tapes, Good Weather for an Airstrike, HIbernate Records, Tom Honey
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A Winged Victory for the Sullen – South Street, Reading
As if the album itself wasn’t already enough of an extraordinary, moving suite of music; seeing and hearing A Winged Victory for the Sullen play (most) of it live raised it yet further into an almost spiritual experience. What is it that can turn some music into … Continue reading
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Tagged A Winged Victory for the Sullen, Erased Tapes, Gig, Sleeping Dog
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The Best of 2011
I still know its a bit naff but I am still going to do it – here, in strictly alphabetical order, are my albums of 2011 (followed by my favourite gigs his year) I will instantly regret not including a … Continue reading
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Tagged A Winged Victory for the Sullen, A.A. Bondy, Ólafur Arnalds, Bill Callahan, Bon Iver, BravoBraveBats, Erased Tapes, Jon Hopkins, Justin Vernon, King Creosote, Koko, Low, Mono, Nils Frahm, Okkervil River, Scott Matthews, The Boxer Rebellion, Thekla, Trinity Centre, Turin Brakes, villagers, White Denim
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Nils Frahm – Reading Minster
It was as cold as charity inside the admittedly rather lovely interior of Reading Minster and the pews are scarcely made for a long sit. So well done me for being super early and nabbing not only a seat up … Continue reading
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Tagged Erased Tapes, Leven Muster Collective, Martyn Heyne, Nils Frahm, The Pawnbroker, Trygghet
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Felt – Nils Frahm
Although it is only fourteen months since I first heard him play his extraordinary music at the St Bonaventure’s in Bristol alongside Shearwater, it feels like I have known the music of Nils Frahm for a long, long time. The … Continue reading
Living Room Songs – Ólafur Arnalds
I have been following Ólafur Arnalds project all week, it has been a touching, intensely human experience with a rare intimacy. Each day he has created a new song, recorded a download mp3 and and accompanying video and made them immediately … Continue reading
A Winged Victory for the Sullen
We live in difficult, and in some ways terrible, times : wars, a shattered economy, social unrest; turn on the wretched TV and its there all the time. Some will rail and rage against it all and in the … Continue reading
