For the love of music
It’s always tough to narrow down a list of favorites, especially to a Top 3, but I’ve finally prevailed instead of failed. I’m also looking forward to several 2012 releases including albums by Blood Red Shoes, Queens Of The Stone Age, The Twilight Sad, Little Boots, Steve Kilbey & Martin Kennedy, Rykarda Parasol, Maribel, Therapy?, Lana … [Read more...]
Hello Martin! You’re no stranger to the DOA musical universe, where we’ve written reviews about your band/project All India Radio and your collaboration with Steve Kilbey of The Church. Since you reside in Australia, I was wondering how the weather was with you (kinda a Crowded House reference…). Here in Melbourne it can literally be … [Read more...]
Continuously evolving his sounds, Tunnels has been the moniker for musician Nicholas Bindeman for quite some time now. At first a droning experiment that reached into psychedelia with mixed results, Bindeman was always someone known for chasing a wide-open world of sounds. And now with a pulse on the bass lines in his music and with a varied … [Read more...]
All India Radio’s Martin Kennedy on… Brian Eno and Harold Budd’s – Ambient 2: The Plateaux Of Mirror (E.G. Records, 1980) Track 1. “First Light”. We all open beers as the song slowly fades in. The stunningly beautiful combination of Budd’s gentle piano arpeggio and Eno’s shimmering ambience manages to hush an otherwise … [Read more...]
A simple approach is sometimes the best option. When dealing with aspects that cover everything from relationships to art to life, the simplistic divide is definitely a well-versed topic. Still, no matter how basic, or rudimentary for that matter, something appears to be: simple never automatically means subtle. Tomorrows Tulips’ Alex Knost and … [Read more...]
Dead Leaf Echo has taken its previously released songs “Act of Truth,” “Half-Truth,” and “Woolgathering” and warped them, stretched them out, submerged them, and otherwise manipulated them to create the new EP Verisimilitude. For this effort, the band has enlisted other artists to put their own spin on these songs. Each version has a … [Read more...]
Its been almost three years since Zomby released his debut album Where Were You in '92, a rave album paying homage to early 90's dance culture. With antiquated gear such as the Akai S2000 and Atari ST, he impressed critics with his production skills as well as his enthusiastic authenticity. Most Americans may not know or care but its an … [Read more...]
Ever wonder what happens when an intelligent post-rock/metal outfit runs out of creativity? They disband, that's what. ISIS realized it was time to stop and thankfully so. I think they realized it a bit late but "better late than never". Much to the dismay of their dorky young male cult following, the first related project release is not … [Read more...]
Art rock, by its very name, implies a certain level of pretention not common to other subgenres and categorical demarcations. Bubblegum pop, acid house, chillwave, folktronica, you name it – none of these styles have that uncanny ability to evoke highfaluting snobbery like those tagged with the “art” prefix. Brian Eno – famed … [Read more...]
Steve Kilbey and Martin Kennedy, of The Church and All Indio Radio respectively, pull another rabbit out of their collective hat on sophomore collaborative album White Magic. The 11 atmospheric songs follow and lead off the path of predecessor Unseen Music, Unheard Words, treading (or is that floating?) understatedly through acoustic guitar … [Read more...]