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Rex Or Regina – Close The Gap
Gainsville band Rex Or Regina don’t go in for exhaustive bio’s. In fact so extreme are their views on the subject that they’ve dispensed with one altogether, leaving bloggers whose fancy has been taken left with no choice but to […]
Her Vanished Grace – Fade Away
22 years on from their faithful meeting in a New York museum Charles and Nancy Nieland show no signs of hanging up their boots on their Her Vanished Grace project. To have lasted this long in the industry takes some […]
The Da Vincis – Bobsledding
Sometime about now, somewhere, fluffy snow is falling and if that matches your outside you’ll most probably enjoy this wintry track from the Da Vincis. Even if its reaching for the mid-teens here in Dublin we can appreciate too, albeit […]
A Beacon School – Invitation
Whenever we return to A Beacon School (and that includes their previous incarnation as the Seascape as well their various jollies as part of Midi and the Modern Dance) they have moved forwards, while never straying that far away from […]
Last Dinosaurs – Repair
If you are going to plunder shamelessly from the past you’d better make a good fist of it. Especially if you want to impress grizzled old music bloggers who were actually around when the past was the present. Funny then […]
Vaadat Charigim – Its OK To Be Afraid
Being someone who is not overtly bothered by lyrics or worldly events it is perhaps predictable enough that the Hebrew worded outfit Vaadat Charigim should take my breath away. I’ve lost little but gained so much thanks to their mid-90′s […]
Amandine – Redemption
Hardly surprising that Wichita Linemen sought to change their name to Amandine given that Fat Cat Records were sniffing around. Really wouldn’t have looked that good to be saluting the competition. The band come from a Swedish outpost but theirs […]
Branches – Silent Night
Last year UNESCO declared the traditional carol ‘Silent Night’ an ‘intangible cultural heritage’. Coming as it did a year after L.A. band Branches decided to cover the classic one could easily put two and two together. In truth that’s probably […]
A Great Big Christmas Post
It’s really happening now, the feeling that Christmas is finally here. This blog will soon be powering off but for the next couple of days we promise to turn this page into a giant snowball full of Christmas songs. Not […]
Emmy The Great and Tim Wheeler – Home For The Holidays
This already has the feel of a sleeper classic, the way those Waitresses and St. Etienne/Tim Burgess songs have appeared from nowhere to become perennials on Best-Of Christmas comps. The song was the standout from last year’s impressive collaboration, called […]
The Shins – Wonderful Christmastime
In what could have been a serious case of eggnog all over their collective faces the Shins have gone and taken on the endlessly cheery ‘Wonderful Christmastime’ by Paul McCartney. Thankfully they’ve decided to spice things up by styling it […]
Indoor Voices – So Smart
Not sure why but 2013 has started out on a decidely shoegaze, or dreamgaze on this occasion, bent. Perhaps it’s the haze and near delirium caused by another Christmas in the recycle bin and the realisation that it won’t be […]