Everyone fell in love with ‘Hoppipolla’ when it was first released. However, the people who really fell in love with it were the incidental music people at the BBC, who didn’t feel it was appropriate to let thirty minutes pass without playing it as an accompaniment to a some programme about badgers they were trying [...]
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Sigur Ros frontman in ‘very Sigur Ros-like’ solo project shocker. But how can we be angry at him when it’s as good as this?
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Tradition. It’s a wide and varied concept which means many different things to many different people. For some, it’s a proud and disciplined code, a link back to happier times, before credit crunches and Alan Carr. For others, it’s a millstone, a nostalgic excuse to indulge in sepia-tinged memories of situations that didn’t actually exist. [...]
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Tonight sees ELM decamp en masse to see Dengue Fever, a strange little Jazz-pop combo who are fronted by a Cambodian lady and who, appositely, have a lot of songs with Cambodian lyrics. Now, pop music is very English-language dominated. How many times have you watched a German or a Lithuanian go 15 rounds with [...]
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Photo courtesy of Heidi Kuisma An eagerly awaited sold out gig and one that finds the Icelandic quartet at a crossroads of sorts. New album ‘with a buzz in our ears we play endlessly’ was something of a progression for the band, drawing from the acoustic work the band produced for their recent DVD as [...]
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By Vespertine Quite a term: Post rock. What exactly is it? What does it do? Can music be post anything? Or is just a term I like to bandy about to make myself appear more musically sophisticated than the people I’m talking to? Well it is partly that of course, but…. In the first instance [...]
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Many moons ago, there was an Office of Fair Trade (OFT) investigation into the price of CD’s. Older readers – most of you, frankly – will recall that the CD, from its inception, was a pretty pricey piece of kit. I vividly recall being charged £13.49 for Nevermind way back in 1992, and that was [...]
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And so it came to pass that it was the final day of Connect, and by Christ, was it biblical in terms of weather. The rain fell and fell and fell all night all morning and all afternoon. Add to that a lunchtime TV football match featuring Rangers and Celtic – and remember, we are [...]
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