Reviews
These New Puritans – Field of Reeds
For their third album the band make something unfamiliar and thrilling, with added sincerity.
More Recent Reviews
Mount Kimbie – Cold Spring Fault Less Youth
A confident and assured follow-up, showcasing a group that is not afraid to cross genre-borders and cast aside the meek post-dubstep moniker.
Emorie – Never Goes Away
Emorie’s debut album is pop and experimental, electronic and organic in equal parts.
Honeyslide – Drippin’ / Deep Architecture EP
Another new band from Critical Heights comes bearing nascent allure and strong signs of future importance; this time built around a well-designed wall of new-gaze sound.
Casual Sex – Stroh 80 7″
Like their early 80s forefathers, Casual Sex makes nervy, unpolished art punk steeped in nostalgia.
Interviews
Interview with David Baker (Variety Lights, Shady and ex-Mercury Rev)
After the best part of two decades away from visible active duty, erstwhile Mercury Rev co-founder David Baker returned in 2012 with his new electronically-slanted Variety Lights outfit. Nearly a year since the debut Variety Lights album, Baker was tracked-down in and around a recent UK tour with Peru Ubu, to share his candid and absorbing thoughts on his past, present and future activities.
Features
Q&A with Lost Animal
Jarrod Quarrell gets straight to the point about his island-vibed debut album and distinctive sound and vocals.
Artists On Albums: AOA#37 (Colleen on Moondog 2)
Cécile Schott (AKA Colleen) acknowledges her inspirational debt to the eccentric percussive magic of Moondog’s numerically monikered 1971 minimalistic opus.
Short Takes on 2 Albums and 2 EPs
Reviews of albums from Steve Kilbey & Martin Kennedy and Lost Animal and EPs from Bloody Knives and Ka Mate Ka Ora.