Filed under: Narc, Reading | Tags: Band of Holy Joy, Cassette Store Day, Destruction Unit, Evil Blizzard, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Hey Colossus, Joanna Newsom, King MIdas Sound, Laetitia Sadier, Luminous Bodies, Midnight Doctors, Pentecostal Party, Pine Hill Haints, Pokey Lafarge, Richard Hawley, Sleaford Mods, Sunn O))), Teeth Of The Sea, The Delines, Tusk
Yeh, Yeh – I’ve been really slack uploading various Narc articles over the last few months, apologies. So here’s lots at once.
Filed under: Narc | Tags: a Singer Must Die, Band of Holy Joy, Box Records, Eleventh Dream Day, Haiku Salut, Heavy Trash, Jenny Hval, Morton Valence, Narc, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Otis Gibbs, Rev Peyton's Big Damn Band, Sleaford Mods, Sly & The Family Drone, Test Dept
June 2015
July 2015
Filed under: Gigs!, Narc | Tags: Aidan Moffatt, Girl Sweat, Mogwai, Nina Persson, Rob Newman, Sleaford Mods, Sunn O))), The Tiger Lillies, TJ Muller, Ulver
Lots of my stuff in Narc this month. I’m pretty pleased with how the Tiger Lillies and Band of Holy Joy features came out
07. Sleaford Mods – Austerity Dogs (Harbinger Sound)
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“The original blueprint (of Sleaford Mods) from 2006 still stands and I have adapted it from album to album. It helps that Andrew sorts the music. His tastes are different to mine but I like what he brings to it. It’s given it a new life. We aren’t a hip hop act at all. We are closer to rap I think, and rap’s got a planet all of its own.. Hip Hop relies on a stern beat structure and it’s become an historic medium. Rap, for me, is still fresh – it looks after Grime and the Rant and still has uncharted territory.” As for comparisons for his vocal delivery, names like John Cooper Clarke, Mark E Smith and Steve Ignorant from Crass get bandied around a lot. Just don’t compare him to Mike Skinner: “I don’t like the Streets comparisons much, a lot of Mike Skinner’s work has dated really badly… he didn’t take care of it very well. People always use the excuse that when you make it you run out of things to say. I disagree, I ain’t made it so to speak, but the struggle never ends. No amount of reward can bury that surely? There is hell in everything and it needs to be pointed at.” – Narc interview, November
Filed under: 2013 Albums Of The Year, Uncategorized | Tags: Great Pop Supplement, Handsome Family, Kraak, MGMT, Sleaford Mods, Spacemen 3, Spectrum
New levels of nerdgasm abound as I introduce the inaugural (and very short) Packaging Of The Year Chart
03. Sleaford Mods – Jobseeker (Kraak)
It’s the combination of the cheap photocopied sleeve (with arch knob Gallagher being a knob on the front) and the none-more-crustpunk accompanying cloth patch. I wish I had a studded, painted, filthy leather jacket to sew this onto.
The Jobseeker cover was designed by the chaps from Kraak, I suppose they took on board the attitude we have about Noel. He took the money and he ran and the people hate the bastard. The people that made him rich have been abandoned by him fully and Money has become his music. When the man who wrote Supersonic claims that Kasabian are brilliant you know in your heart he is not to be trusted anymore. Noels dead mate.” – from my Sleaford Mods interview in Narc
02. Spectrum / Spacemen Three / MGMT
(Great Pop Supplement)
GPS releases are always beautiful artefacts but this is extra special. That said, I’ve never managed to put it back together properly since the day I first opened it.
01. The Handsome Family – Wilderness
(Carrot Top Records)
Okay, it wasn’t cheap but sometimes it’s worth spending that bit more. Inside a chunky box there’s the album and lyric sheet, a poster, a set of six postcards and a book of art and essays. All using the words, pictures and lyrics of Rennie Sparks.
Filed under: Bands, Narc, Reading | Tags: Broken Family Band, Dum Dum Girls, Future Of The Left, Los Coyote Men, Narc, Silver Mt Zion, Sleaford Mods, Sweethearts Of The Radio, Tara Jane O'Neill
the usual reviews, interviews and nonsense.
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