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Stoner/metal/drone/whatever band Boris get a reworking from trendy remix type Todd Edwards.
Excellent.

Soz

I've been abandoning the blog recently. The dream, the glitz and the glamour of the student life has taken my focus off what truely matters: Beef.
By way of apalagy, have an album of a sorta up and coming electronic artist.

Nosaj Thing is a glitch electro artist from L.A., specialising in building up layers of warbly electronics with acid tight drum beatz. Drift, his full length debut, showcases the shimmering blip artist at work, creating suitable lounge beats and also atmospheric tunes. Enjoy.



Nosaj Thing- Drift

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Ubar Tracklistz

* 1. “Quest”
* 2. “Fog”
* 3. “Coat of Arms”
* 4. “IOIO”
* 5. “1685/Bach”
* 6. “Caves”
* 7. “Light#1″
* 8. “Light#2″
* 9. “2222″
* 10. “Us”
* 11. “Voices”
* 12. “Lords”

Pygmy Lush - Mount Hope

Mount Hope

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Tracklist:
1) Asphalt
2) No Feeling
3) Dead Don't Pass
4) God Condition
5) Red Room Blues
6) Mount Hope
7) Frozen Man
8) Hard To Swallow
9) Concrete Mountain
10) Dreams Are Class
11) Butch's Dream
12) Tumor

Pygmy Lush are an odd bunch. As one of these pretentious music types I like to think that a few samples of a song off a band's myspace or a few listens of their last.fm page will tell me all I need to know to make a fairly quick judgement that will decide whether I will or won't listen to that band again. Never before however have I gone to a band's myspace and not known whether I will be treated to eight minutes of folk bliss or two and a half minutes of screamo.

Mount Hope, you may or may not be pleased to hear, is completely void of the latter, and spends three quarters of an hour treating the listener to what can only be described as blissful acoustic lullabies (I've got time, though, so i'll try and describe it as something else as well). I generally don't have any time for folk music, too often I personally find it slightly meandering and pointless, (says the Post-Rock fan) but Mount Hope is pretty much spot on. There's moody guitar rumbling in the likes of Asphalt, the one man and his dog anthem of Dead Don't Pass, and the backroom bar shuffle of the album's title track. Where Mount Hope shines, though, is in it's extended pieces, the likes of Red Room Blues, which starts out standard enough and descends into a Pink Floyd esque haze, and the frankly flawless album closer, Tumor. Everything on offer here is brilliantly emotional, but still retains some subtlety. More importantly, everything on offer here is beautiful. I'll not pretend to know the reasoning for a screamo band branching out into lo-fi folk music, but it could have been so easy to make a half baked Tom Waits pastiche here. Instead, Pygmy Lush (what a great name, by the way) have maken an album that is unique, brilliant and beautiful, and borrows elements even from the folk artist everyone can get behind; Bon Iver. Even at that, though, vocals are muffled, dark, and the acoustic guitars are wonderfully forlorn.

As previously mentioned, or not mentioned but what you should have taken from this, Mount Hope isn't really going to get the party started. It's one to stick on late at night, after one too many glasses of wine, when you can feel your cheeks getting a bit red. Or play it in iTunes and have a lie down. Or put it on after watching Forrest Gump.

I'll review something happy soon, I promise.

8.7/10

The blogs back, makes over the top claims about The Antlers.

So these guys are pretty fuckin good. Like, best band with a :( of the last 10 years. I frothed over Hospice a while back, and still nothings come along to convince me that it isn't still the album of the year. Plus, some beefy new live footage shows the band in all their crashing majesty. The quiet bits are heartfelt, and the loud bits are apocalyptic. If you haven't checked out one of the despairingly best albums of the year so far, do so. Live links below.

GIEF MEH.

New MGMT video - Kids

Jesus. It's back. The new shit/freaky/child torturing video of Kids is what you'd expect from MGMT.......scary and surreal. There's no way that kid in the video's not going to have issues when he's older. See the 6 minute freakout below. Now....can we please let this song die?

Jesu - Silver EP

Jesu is the post metal droneage of Justin Broadrick, former member of industrial band Godflesh. After suffering a nervous breakdown in 2002, Broadrick disbanded Godflesh and formed the one man band Jesu, taking on all guitar, bass and programming duties. Silver EP is a wonderful journey through some seriously loud metal drones and occassional crunching electronics. Silver EP, considered to be one of Broadricks' more melodic releases, has gained comparisons to MBV and bands such as Pelican and ISIS. This music, however, more than speaks for itself. Enjoy.

Tracklist:
1.Silver
2. Star
3. Wolves
4. Dead Eyes

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Banjo Or Freakout - Bootlegz

Banjo Or Freakout is the solo psychedelic fuzz folk of Alessio Natalizia, an Italian based in London. I'm really excited about this guy.....instead of gloomy shoegaze we have ambitious bedroom swathes of guitar and optimism. It's pretty incredible for one guy, and even more incredible given the code by which he records: everything must be done in one take. I'm still trying to get a hold of his latest Upside Down E.P., but these tracks should be enough to keep us going. He also has a penchant for covering other people's songs....I've taken two officially released songs, (Mr. No and the DFA approved cover of LCD's Someone Great) and a handful of cover versions that I could find.

1. All I Need (Radiohead Cover)
2. Archangel (Burial Cover)
3. Atlas (Battles Cover)
4. Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa (Vampire Weekend Cover)
5. Mr. No
6. Someone Great

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This is soaring stuff. Archangel in particular is turned from the moody, rainy at 3am sounding twostep shuffle into a humble fuzz folk effort, and his psychedelic tendencies translate especially well on Atlas. Nothing really compares to the last two tracks however, and I would urge you to listen to them first. I'm waiting frustratedly to get a hold of his latest E.P. Until then, this should tide you over, and one thing's for sure; we should be seeing a lot more of this fellow in the future.