Added on January 12, 2013
Everett True
Everett True , Flying Nun , Seattle , Song Of The Day , The Bats , Zebra Hunt
It’s like having your own personal Bats, your own personal Clean, your own personal Jesus, in your living room
Added on September 28, 2011
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Brisbane , Feathers , Kindling Records , The Bats , The Clean , The Deadnotes , The Legend , Thick Syrup , Vivian Girls
Like the carton of Coopers Sparkling Ale I’m currently investigating, this post knows no end.
Added on March 11, 2011
Everett True
ATV , Best Coast , Blank Realm , Brisbane , Dunedin , Eddie Vedder , edgy , Eternal Soundcheck , Flying Nun , Hamish Kilgour , MGMT , Neu! , Panel Of Judges , Pavement , post-punk , Robert Scott , Songs , Sonic Youth , Spiral Stairs , Tally Ho , The Bats , The Clean , The Clientele , The Deadnotes , the Dunedin Sound , The Go-Betweens , The Laughing Clowns , The Legend , The Thin Kids , The Velvet Underground , The Vine , The Zoo , Turn It Up , Yo La Tengo
I doubt if there’s a single person here who undervalues The Clean’s beauty, their vivid guitar storms punctuated by trebly guitar excess and bursts of down-home, deprecating humour.
Added on December 4, 2009
Everett True
Bo Ningen , Goran Bregović , Hugs And Kisses , Joseph Spence , Karen O And The Kids , Munster Records , Playground , Ray Rumours , Rodrigo y Gabriela , Songs , Tap Tap , The Bats , The Clean , The Thin Kids
This was written for Spanish website Playground a couple of days ago. I dutifully sent it off, and received a return email stating the column had been pulled, financial considerations. Damn. They could have told me that before I wrote it! Anyway. Thought it was too good to waste. Hugs And Kisses The Strangely Muted […]
Added on November 3, 2009
Everett True
Beaches , Electrelane , Galaxie 500 , John Cale , Songs , Sonic Youth , Spacemen 3 , Straitjacket Fits , Television , The Bats
Yep, Songs. Their debut album – due out in November – is quite honestly the greatest record I’ve heard all year. Full stop, end of story. It might well be the greatest record I’ve heard this decade but a) it’s still not a competition, and b) my memory does play tricks on me, and c) I’m […]
Added on July 22, 2009
Everett True
Pitchfork , The Bats , The Go-Betweens
Fuck it. I can’t stop listening to this album. It creeps up on me, catches me unawares. It’s so gentle, deceptively unobtrusive. It’s so sweet and full of subtle magic and intricate guitar motifs and lines that never revel in their own cleverness, just melt. It doesn’t shout, no it never shouts. I have no […]
