Tag: wild beasts
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Hannah Peel
Behind the curve on this one. I’ve been hearing Hannah’s name for ages used in the same breath as Anna Meredith who is a composer I love greatly, so mentally noted that I needed to check her out. I wasn’t disappointed, her music-box creations (called Rebox) covering electronic and indie songs are well worth it.…
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Return to the Cloud: Clams Casino, Trill and the new D.A.I.S.Y. age
A few years ago I was all about what later got called ‘Cloud Rap’ – Main Attracktionz, Babe Rainbow, Odd Future – I saw it as the hip hop successor to witch house and an extension of IDM. I tuned out, partly because the lyrical content wasn’t there, and listening now to the more recent…
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East India Youth
I went to the Wild Beasts Brixton gig a few days ago. It was strangely schizophrenic in feel, like the crowd and myself love the older songs, there’s obviously a shift in the audience, with Tom Fleming asking ‘who was here when we first played this song 10 years ago?’ to utter silence he responded…
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RC 256: I Have No Name For This (Fix It In The Edit)
[image: John, Hackney 2013] The same rappers say they’re trooping the frontlines, and casually use the word ‘Faggot’ as a punchline. That’s not a man, that’s not a tough guy. That is a sucker and a fraud to the culture! Hip Hop is folk music grown from the struggle and half these fools could put…