The most striking and epic piece of music this year might not come from any ‘band’ in the traditional sense. You know why? Because Hans Zimmer has beaten everyone to it and has only gone and made one of the best film soundtracks of the last few years. I’m sure most of you will have [...]
Posted on August 10th, 2010 by Max
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Field Music are a musician’s band. Their music is so immaculately crafted and arranged that it makes other so-called ‘musicians’ pale in comparison. None is this more evident than on the Sunderland four-piece’s most recent album – a double album in fact – Field Music (Measure). Over the course of about an hour or so [...]
Posted on June 17th, 2010 by Max
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For quite a while now, Kele from Bloc Party has been threatening to release something on his accord that reflects his love for dance. Now with Bloc Party on an indefinite hiatus, he follows the footsteps guitarist Russell Lissack (who is currently alternating between his own band Pin Me Down alongside touring with childhood heroes [...]
Posted on May 2nd, 2010 by Max
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It’s been a good three years since Interpol released their last album, the slightly disappointing Our Love To Admire. Whilst it seemed like a natural progression for Interpol to move from post-punk revival to a more epic brand of rock, it felt like they only partly succeeded in making an album as worthy as their [...]
Posted on May 1st, 2010 by Max
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Expectations surrounding the new 65daysofstatic album, at least on this blog anyway, are mammoth. We Were Exploding Anyway, the Sheffield quartet’s fourth LP gets released on the 26th April. I was going to use post-rockers on that sentence but that might not make sense anymore. In the three years since their last effort, the disappointingly [...]
Posted on April 1st, 2010 by Max
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