MUSIC
December 2006
Múm The Peel Session (FatCat, album)
Glitchy records have a habit of being too clever for their own good. It’s all very well enjoying the intricacy of the micro-surgery but what about the melody?
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February 2007
My Device Eat Lead/Slamming Doors (Shifty Disco, single)
Adrenaline-fuelled distortion bouncing off walls, yup, slamming doors and eating lots of sugar and other white stuff it probably shouldn’t.
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March 2007
Dirty Diggers The Pleasure Is All Mine (Zebra Traffic, album)
The diggers are one of the best acts on Zebra Traffic, which we decided pretty soon after 2005’s For The Haters appeared.
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April 2007
Dr Octagon The Return Of Dr Octagon Buttercuts
Kool Keith finally returns his attention to the moniker that has won him the most post-Ultramagnetic recognition.
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May 2007
Foals Hummer (Transgressive, single)
It’s a genius idea – electro played by an indie band. And we’re not talking about synths and guitars á la new rave; this is serious Germanic electronic music coming from a traditional band set-up.
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June 2007
Blood Red Shoes It’s Getting Boring By The Sea / Box Of Secrets
(V2, limited 7”/download single)
BRS are on bloody V2 now. Nice work. It’s Getting Boring is a typically energetic bit of minimal indie punk about how terrible it is living here, when everyone knows everyone so you can’t get away with naughtiness.
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July 2007
Me & You Floating Heavy (Tru Thoughts, CD album)
Surely TM Juke and Rob Luis have enough on their plates with their day jobs, yet somehow they’ve found time for a whole album of dancefloor fodder.
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August 2007
The Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster
In The Garden (No Death, CD EP)
Since Eighties Matchbox (it hurts to even say the whole name) invented The Horrors and the whole neo-goth, scary garage rock scene, you’d think now’s the time to be cashing in.
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September 2007
Fink Distance And Time (Ninja Tune, album)
The best of this month’s pile of acoustic albums is Fink, which is a bit annoying because SOURCE “senior management” is such good mates with the Ninja Tune folkie, it would’ve been well fun to give him a kicking.
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October 2007
Metronomy Radio Ladio (N.N.F.R. CD single)
Now defining themselves firmly as the live trio lineup, Joe Mount’s shithot quirky and squonky dance band Metronomy have scored supports on two of the hottest tours this autumn, with Foals and Kate Nash.
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DEMOS
December 2007
Zettasaur (myspace demo)
Righteous spiky white-noise fury from another era, Zettasaur are as awesome a prospect as looking up at a Jurassic carnivore.
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February 2007
Nick Hopkin In The Absence Of Anxiety (Demo)
The opening two tracks of Nick’s second demo sound like the Gin Blossoms and Belle & Sebastian having a dance-off, until S.A.D. and Somehow turn the lights lower and things start to get emotional.
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March 2007
Revenge Of Shinobi (Myspace demo)
The four tracks on this demo are at once mournful and euphoric. R.O.S. sound like clouds perpetually parting, the untitled tracks play like streams of sun breaking onto your face.
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April 2007
Reuben’s Thread (feat. RachaelRachael)
Colour Me Blue (CD demo)
Despite checking the Cocteaus and Boards Of Canada, this boy/girl singer and guitarist duo make early 90s soft pop MOR that owes more to The Lighthouse Family.
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May 2007
Razorface (CD demo)
Razorface deliver seven blisteringly fast songs in just under 20 minutes. By grind standards that’s pretty epic, and that’s a good summation of their sound.
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June 2007
Maths Class (CD demo)
Cocksure new scamps on the local block, Maths Class have somehow shot right to the top of our fave new bands chart.
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July 2007
The Miserable Rich (CD demo)
Another supergroup of the Brighton folk scene, TMR contain members of Shoreline, Conrad Vingoe and The Fair Few, which is probably why they’ve produced such a sumptuous demo.
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August 2007
The Rylics (myspace tracks)
The Rylics are making a big deal about their age, even writing 15, 14 and 13 next to their names but really it’s better to just get on with it, than force a gimmick.
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September 2007
Godzilla Black I Don’t See Any God Up Here (CD demo)
From Here To Clare is one of the most unsettling tunes to have graced my ears in some time.
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October 2007
Ack Ack Ack (Myspace tracks)
Ack Ack Ack count Charlottefield/Skill 7 Stamina 12 drummer Ashley among their ranks and are therefore immediately leagues ahead of any other band you’d care to mention.
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