Tag: tv on the radio
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Kleptones – AD
If I was to choose one word to describe The Kleptones fourth album in the ‘quadtriptych’ it would be angry. Not a misplaced or random anger, but a righteous one about the state of the world at the moment. Starting with hypnotic Alan Watts quotes and strange spoken word about reality, truth and cake, it…
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Jungle – Platoon & The Heat
Again, playing catch up on 2013, but an article in Vice about all those Sound of 2014 list (yah know how I hate those, how they tend to pick dead cert mainstream label-backed artists, ones that get the push so they know they’ll have something to crow about next year – no-one saw XX or…
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Return of the new ambience
Researching a lot of the ‘best of half of 2011’ list albums, I have to say it gets harder and harder, especially getting older but also as niche marketing gets more and more insistent to find the truly new or interesting sounds. They are out there, but you wade through a lot of ‘haven’t-I-heard-that-before?’ before…