Category: indie anthem
James – Born Of Frustration
If I wasn’t so old and busy I’d be dragging my lard to see the bands that kick-started me on this road. Legends like the Happy Mondays and the Inspiral Carpets who play a double-header in the Olympia next week. […]
Deerhunter – Desire Lines
Despite initially sounding all the world like a geriatric ‘Rebellion (Lies)’ Deerhunter’s ‘Desire Lines’ does an about turn to instead fall into the arms of Sonic Youth. And for all that the band I most associate with them is Pavement […]
The Constellations – Setback
To call them the US Kasabian could be to damn the Constellations with faint praise but then I’m sure they’d put up with that in exchange for some of the former’s gazillion sales. It hard not to get suckered into […]
Rudely Interrupted – Close My Eyes
In an era of overwhelming homogenisation Melbourne’s Rudely Interrupted certain corner a previously unregistered angle. I won’t go into because you can read what it is via pretty much every other dispatch about the band. Besides before I altavista’d them […]
The Boo Radleys – Lazarus
I wrote this review about 10 years ago, roughly 7 years after I first fell in love with ‘Giant Steps’, the phenomenal sprawling epic from Liverpool’s the Boo Radleys. The album has just been reissued by Cherry Records so to […]
Wildlife Control – Ages Places
The thing that distinguishes Pennsylvanian brothers Neil and Sumul Shah from the rest is not just that their music crackles with frenzied activity but moreso that it contains soul. So while you will headnod like a good thing something inside […]