MYPET – Pays To Know
It’s impossible not to be seduced.
4th September 2012, 3:21pm
It’s impossible not to be seduced.
4th September 2012, 3:21pm
‘Palace Garden’ whizzes by in a haze of chillwave sonmambulance.
30th August 2012, 4:02pm
Interview
Colm McAuliffe speaks to Michael Gira about the release of Swans’ twelfth studio album.
29th August 2012, 10:30am
Their overwrought presence seem like forced attempts to solder a bit of soul on to the machinery.
25th August 2012, 4:02pm
Feature
Colm McAuliffe encounters James Yorkston in the iconic surroundings of the British Library.
13th August 2012, 8:42am
A fine exercise in pearly, bleary eyed acid pop.
11th August 2012, 12:03pm
Interview
Brothers Conor and Neil Adams, John Higgins and Kev Curran talk Colm McAuliffe through the new album.
21st July 2012, 7:58am
Live Review
Less an exercise in doleful introspection, more a celebration of the band’s restraint.
17th July 2012, 1:23pm
Dizzyingly uplifting, as camp as a weekend at Butlins and effortlessly iridescent.
14th July 2012, 2:02pm
A masterful album, aligning lyrical nous with the most lissom and lithe of musical charms.
14th July 2012, 9:59am
There’s a playful spirit at work throughout the ‘Sadness Of Remembering’.
16th June 2012, 12:02pm
‘Tucson’ feels life an afterthought, lacking in the kinetic intensity and corrosive experimentalism of earlier releases.
11th June 2012, 2:58pm
Live Review
Nothing less than a staggering display of sonic dynamics.
10th April 2012, 11:14am
A beacon of craftsmanship and invention coated in marvellously empathetic collection of pop tunes.
19th March 2012, 1:02pm
A gleeful mishmash of restless, bleeping synths, glitch-infused histrionics and searing shards of white noise.
5th March 2012, 5:03pm
Polished, feel good, sun-drenched pop music.
23rd February 2012, 5:59pm
Whether this is simply a re-treading of colonial impulses is open to debate.
13th February 2012, 12:08pm
An altogether more stripped back affair.
8th February 2012, 4:03pm
No one does impending death quite like Mark Lanegan.
4th February 2012, 2:07pm
‘Hymns’ is so inoffensive and pleasant sounding that it barely registers.
23rd January 2012, 7:36pm
Heavenly harmonies and wistful string plucking. Nothing on ‘The Lion’s Roar’ sounds remotely out of place.
23rd January 2012, 3:02pm
Will this signpost the way for jazz to take over?
21st January 2012, 2:01pm
Unashamedly pop, and unashamedly wonderful.
12th January 2012, 6:08pm
What’s unique about this EP is that it features four markedly different versions of the same song.
12th January 2012, 9:42am
Featuring SOFT PLAY, Corinne Bailey Rae, 86TVs, English Teacher and more!