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It has always perplexed me that The Cure’s most commercially successful record has been out of print on vinyl for 30 years, while the likes of Faith and 17 Seconds seem to get a new release every four or five years. Word was that the remastering of the record had been done for some time, […]
London’s Sorry would probably bristle at being simply described as “post-punk” – their glitchy, groovy, art-rock has so much more going on than that – but there’s no denying there’s a strong through-line from their sound and the experimental aesthetic of that original ’80s scene. Plus it justifies me posting about it, so I’ll go […]
Dry Cleaning have a pretty set formula – nonsensical, oft-hilarious observationals delivered in Florence Shaw’s deadpan sprechgesang overtop muscular rock guitar riffage – so you’d be forgiven if, when listening to this second preview of their forthcoming second album Stumpwork, you find you’ve spent the whole five minutes waiting for the muscular rock guitar riffage […]
The year of Wet Leg continues, as the duo are wrapping an Australian tour and will come straight back to North America for a short North American run – their Toronto club debut sandwiched between major festivals – before more fests in Europe and back to North America for more shows through October, then back […]
I’ve only just started the latest season of Stranger Things, but already know that Siouxsie & The Banshees’ “Spellbound”, the lead single from their 1981 album Juju, gets a sync in one of the final episodes. Will this be the band’s “Running Up That Hill” moment and net them a 40-years-later #1 and multimillion-dollar windfall? […]
Every once in a while I think about would-be supergroup Minor Victories and wonder why I didn’t love their 2016 self-titled debut more than I did. I listened to it a lot on its release, and it certainly hit a lot of sweet spots for me, but didn’t end up having the shelf life I […]
Interpersonal tensions aside, the passing of drummer John Lever in 2017 pretty much put an end to hopes for any kind of follow-up to The Chameleons‘ fourth album, 2001’s Why Call It Anything. Fans have done alright with finding things to buy thanks to a steady stream of reissues of their studio albums and ’80s […]
Wire’s penchant for revisiting and reconstructing old material is a topic I’ve meant to go deeper into for a while, but it’s not happening here or now. Instead, a selection from their latest official release, which is a wide release of a former limited release which was a re-release of a decades-old unofficial release. Not […]
Typically, releasing one of the best records of the year and then touring the world despite a pandemic would be enough to keep a band busy, but somehow London’s Dry Cleaning have also found the time to record the follow-up to last year’s New Long Leg and will release Stumpwork on October 21. According to […]
I spend an inordinate amount of time researching what kind of equipment players who were so skint they played whatever the could find and afford. It’s not healthy. Case in point, the delicious clangy tone that Daniel Ash got on those early Bauhaus records – not some meticulously crafted tone recipe involving sacrificial blood or […]
