If you’ve ever been bewitched by London noir outfit Phantom, you’ll be delighted to hear that frontwoman Elsie has been having a bit on the side. The result is Atom Eye, and it’s mental. In an age where most people seem to think ‘experimental’ means another guitar player, it’s refreshing to hear something genuinely out [...]
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You can’t beat a bit of thrift in times like these. Esperi agrees, which is why he’s put all of his previous EPs together into one super EP for release on 4 August. This comes ahead of a new album later in the year. Here he is with ‘My Tear Dissolved the View’. Let us [...]
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We told you about Indian Red Lopez a couple of years ago after catching an incendiary live show at King Tuts. They’ve been honing their craft since and we’ll hear the fruits of their labour on 4 August with the release of their debut album Empty Your Lungs and Breathe. It’s one we are very [...]
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If you like your music loud enough to strip the enamel from your teeth then Flats may be just what you are after. Officilally the seond loudest band reviewed by ELM – the honour remains with the Fall - Flats bring their own brand of thrashy punk to King Tuts. It may be cold outside [...]
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Visuals can be distracting. Music is about the ears, not the eyes. The sights can distract the brain from what you are hearing and influence how you are perceiving the audio signals. Take this single from Grouplove. ‘Colours’ is a corking song, a wonderful start to 2011. But, on the other hand, they look like [...]
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Tango in the Attic release their second single ‘Sketch by Quentin Blake’ this week. Those of us who were once in thrall to the sort of effervescent guitar pop that made Johnny Marr the King of Indie guitarists will find a lot to like here. Great title, too.
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This is a great name. Even if you can’t stand the music, you’ll have to give it up for a band called What Would Jesus Drive. They’ve been touring with Dirty Pretty Things and The View and making a few new friends with their raucous, lo-fi pop. This is their track ‘The Girls are in [...]
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Cliches. Horrid things. Especially when they are used to pigeonhole people. You may not know much about Roky Erickson apart from his very real mental health issues. But there is a lot more to the man than the received wisdom suggests. Main man of seminal garage band the 13th Floor Elevators, Roky’s idiosyncratic writing style made [...]
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A cracking EP called Ladies and Gentlemen landed on ELM’s desk the other day from a band called Johnny and the Giros. The name suggests punk, but it’s more a marriage of electro and what we quaintly term indie. Spidery synth riffs over Gang of Four-style agit-funk guitars, it’s also imbued with that searing ambition which Scottish [...]
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It’s freezing, you are skint, you are back at work and you are stone heavier than you were three weeks ago. Your liver is currently speaking to lawyers to see if it can legally divorce you on the grounds of cruelty and you’ve had to accept that you have just wasted another year, watched as [...]
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