“There’s some cool coming out of Chicago. It’s abrasive, it’s messy, it verges on lo-fi, it’s cohesive by its lack of cohesion…”
Indie
“Whatever your take on disco punk Dada, maybe make sure you’re ready to change it. Trade your Hot Chips for cash, collect all Chk Chk Chks, and tune into Sex Pizzul weirdness…”
“There’s so much in the sonics and bones of ‘Believe’ that it’s hard to know just where start. It’s frustratingly clever, emphatically catchy, and just so damn easily accessible…”
“Every sound in this EP is bolder. More fluid, more set and more certain. Minaxi’s music has grown and they’ve grown along with it, it’s a pleasure to ride along with them…”
“Tin Woodman have gone and resurrected the synthesised camp scifi souls of Midnight Juggernauts, Bondage Fairies and The B52s, and produced this it-thing of a single…”
“30 minutes of music gets split through two tracks with a cut for Side A and Side B. There’s prog, dreamwave ‘tronica, evolving progressions over space-disco pulses, and twists in surprising directions…”
Here be B-movie tones, old school punk n’roll, New York mess, indie gems and a sack full of trouble-sludge sounds.
“There’s the matured calm and chill of solo Ray Davies, the jangle of late Teenage Fanclub. All the twists and connections explain the not-shy nods in a song packed with Easter-egg aurals…”
And once more it’s a bumper sized playlist. This time split into A-side and B-side…
“Let’s pretend it’s a decade and then some ago. !!!, Fischerspooner, Hot Chip and The Rapture are pumping their polyrhythmic pulchritude. Daft Punk is playing at Everybody’s House and New York once again is in vogue…”
