The Dada Weatherman – The Green Waltz (Jamendo) It’s one of the best bits of Creative Commons music, the fact that you can randomly download something simply because you like the bands name. In fact you can download a dozen albums a day without pausing for a second to think about […]
Yearly Archives: 2012
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Mr. Racoon – Katy (Delhotel Records) This is the first album I’ve gotten around to reviewing from Mexican Net Label ‘Delhotel Records’, which is something to a surprise given the rather hefty back catalogue they can boast and the element of novelty entailed in finding a Mexican Net Label in […]
Chewbaska – The Shape of Ska to Come More Ska Punk? Why yes, yes indeedy. Well, almost yes at any rate given that today’s offering actually leans more to the side of the Ska than the Punk which is unsurprisingly no disappointment to me at least. Hailing, like Guarapita, from […]
Guarapita – Si Hay! (Jamendo) Reviewing albums that are nearly 4 years old? Yeah, bleeding edge folks, expect me to regress even further and start extolling the virtues of 1990’s Indie some time soon. Well, don’t actually because it was largely shite. Anyway, Guarapita have a couple of newer albums, unsurprisingly […]
S.U.N. – The One (Jamendo) Consciousness Rap or Political Rap, or whatever you want to call it. Funny sub-genre really, supposedly a noble alternative to the tedious Gangsta musings which took control all those years ago but for the most part it’s all bland as fuck. There are few styles […]
The Wind Whistles – Window Sills (Aaahh Records) Even more Folk today with Aaah Records prolific tourers ‘The Wind Whistles’, stable mates of the indifferent Keyboard Rebels and the really rather good Entertainment for the Braindead this Canadian duo fit somewhere in the middle of the bunch. Window Sills is overall […]
William Elmore – I fell in love… and all I got was this lousy broken heart EP (Jamendo) As I was downloading this I was feeling rather hopeful, the list of influences on Elmore’s MySpace left me with dreams of a Donovan-esque psychadelic Folk adventure which seemed like the perfect soundtrack […]
SCLWN – Everything is OK (Hool-A-Hop Records) It’s an odd task reviewing foreign language Hip Hop. The genre is built upon its lyrical qualities at least as much as its musical ones and trying to rate the value of what’s being said in a language you have absolutely no understanding […]
Keyboard Rebel – Pop Grenade (Aaahh Records) Billed, apparently, as Indie Mavericks by both themselves and the Aaahh Records NetLabel (also home to the rather better Entertainment for the Braindead) Keyboard Rebel are a Pop Folk outfit hailing from the barren North, or Manchester, as it’s otherwise known. Pop Grenade, their […]
Dockta Valkus – Skybase (Neferiu Records) Hmh, from Professor Kliq to Dockta Valkus, less of a brave leap into the abyss and more of a sideways shuffle. Dockta Valkus is another one not quite fitting into a clear slot, or rather he is but he’s not sure how he’s doing it. […]