In 2007 65daysofstatic came to a shuddering stand-still with an album called The Destruction Of Small Ideas. After two solid albums of frenetic post-rock (2004′s The Fall Of Math and 2005′s One Time For All Time) they seemed a bit too lost. Fragments of intriguing small ideas were to be found but it was overbloated [...]

Posted on April 22nd, 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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Happy new decade! The Musical Chairs is back, recharged and refreshed for 2010 with lots of exciting things to happen throughout the year. They’ll be known to year when the time is right but for today I want to focus on the albums that I’m looking forward to in 2010. Last year provided us with [...]

Posted on January 4th, 2010 by Max
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The post-rock kings of Sheffield, 65daysofstatic, are set to return next year with their fourth album, which has just recently been finished and looks set to be with us in the first few months of 2010. The good news for us is that this means another batch of live dates as the songs they’ve road-tested [...]

Posted on December 9th, 2009 by Max
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It seems that right now everyone is going collaboration crazy. In this week’s NME there’s a joint interview with Ian Brown and Jay-Z, which possibly outweirds Jay-Z’s friendship with Coldplay’s Chris Martin. There’s also the news that Brown and multi-band guitarist Johnny Marr are making a soundtrack for a TV show, and Radiohead’s Thom Yorke [...]

Posted on September 30th, 2009 by Max
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