Times New Viking @ Tone, Sydney, 25.08.11
The crowd watched attentively, on the precipice of joyous and spontaneous engagement.
Shabazz Palaces – Black Up (Sub Pop)
I gave it name. “Oblique hip-hop”: angular but open, unkinked but unlinked
Song of the Day (guest editor) – 1: Those Darlins
The store where I bought the record called it “Redneck Ramones”.
6 (and a bit) favourite musical encounters from the first half of 2011, around which the miscellany of life lies
Most are gigs. Music lives in open air.
Iceage – New Brigade (What’s Your Rupture?)
Iceage have the wisdom to be brief: what they evoke is too much to bear for too long.
Fucked Up – David Comes To Life (Matador)
Woah, what the? Fucked Up? Monochrome?
Manifest This – Collapse Board exists to prove nihilistic fucktards like Morrissey wrong
So, Morrisey. Collapse Board exists to prove nihilistic fucktards like you wrong.
Micachu And The Shapes and The London Sinfonietta – Chopped And Screwed (Rough Trade)
This album makes me want to sell my guitars.