However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are. It looks poorest when you are richest. The fault-finder will find faults even in paradise. Love your life, poor as it is. You may perhaps have some pleasant, [...]
Yeah, I know, I know, three days late on this and in the blog world, three days might as well be three weeks. I actually just got back this morning around 3am and didn’t really have a chance to think about and reflect on what made this year’s Pitchfork Music Festival so much fun [...]
On first listening to Printer’s third full-length, I Can Take More I wasn’t sure if I wanted to dance or sit idly and listen to the album in its entirety. The layers of synth chords and drum beats scream to be released on the dancefloor, but the Roskilde, Denmark quartet is patient to get [...]
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Alloy Mental’s debut, We Have Control harks back to the golden era of hard-hitting breakbeat techno, recalling acts like Leftfield, The Drum Club, and The Prodigy.
Check out the video above for the Belfast group’s savage stomping “God Is Green” and try not to let yourself bounce out of your seat. It’s like Ascii Disko [...]
Chalk this one up to the album art catching your eye before you even hear a note of music. I picked up Ben Klock’s “Czeslawa” 12” (b-side “Warszawa”) solely based on its Sailor Jerry-esque cover art which reminded me of the “Rose of No Man’s Land” tattoo. The tattoo’s roots lie in a [...]
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back in january, I did a couple of posts on “overlooked” albums or albums I missed in 2006. one of these records was motor’s powerful debut klunk. less than a year after the release of klunk, the london duo of mr. no and bryan black are back with their throbbing sophomore effort, unhuman. [...]
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