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Album Review: Lightspeed Champion, ‘Life Is Sweet! Nice To Meet You’

February 9, 2010 by Lachy 0 Comments

Dev Hynes, recording under his pseudonym Lightspeed Champion, produced one of 2008’s most memorable debuts in ‘Falling Off The Lavender Bridge’, and his sophomore album ‘Life Is Sweet! Nice To Meet You’, due out February 16th via Domino was one of my most anticipated albums of 2010. Hynes has always been a law unto himself. […]

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Album Review: JJ ‘Nº3’

February 8, 2010 by Lachy 1 Comment

When JJ’s second album (no prizes for guessing the name) found its way onto the internet, very little was known about the band apart from the fact that they were associated with label Sincerely Yours, which of course was formed by The Tough Alliance. It was met with a resounding response from bloggers and music […]

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Album Review: Yeasayer ‘Odd Blood’

February 5, 2010 by Lachy 0 Comments

Next up in my long list of albums to review is Yeasayer’s second LP ‘Odd Blood’, due February 9th. I did enjoy the  band’s debut, ‘All Hour Cymbals’, but at times found it a bit too inaccessible and experimental, so I was looking for something a bit different in its followup.

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Album Review: Shearwater ‘The Golden Archipelago’

February 4, 2010 by Lachy 0 Comments

‘The Golden Archipelago’, Texan outfit Shearwater’s sixth full-length effort, due February 23rd, is a difficult album to review. It opens with a choir of islanders singing the national anthem of Bikini Atoll, and straight away you know you’re not in for a normal record.

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Album Review: Girls ‘Album’

November 2, 2009 by Lachy 0 Comments

San Francisco drug-pop outfit Girls have the dubious honour of being one of the most difficult to Google bands of all time. Not only is the band name a rather popular term for Google, but they even called their first album… ‘Album’. But really, who cares, when it’s this good? Somehow, in a world full […]

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