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Young Colossus is the new project from Maccabees frontman, Orlando Weeks. It's a concept album made up of six tracks, each one relating to a different section of the accompanying graphic novel, illustrated by artist Rob Hunter.»
"I hadn't really noticed that times were so hard for guitar bands. I guess we are a guitar band, but I would never think of us in that way; a guitar band is much more straight forward. I don't think this sounds like a guitar record. Maybe it's just because I don't play guitar very well…" - Orlando Weeks»
Los Campesinos! are just lovely. They're so engaged that I can't tell whether the journo before me who is interviewing them is a mate or not. Eventually, she says thank you and shakes their hands, so I sidle over. But before we get beyond pleasantries, a »
It’s hard to know what to expect when you meet DJ Shadow. I mean, I had to Wikipedia his real name; always an awkward introduction when an artist is better known by their stage-name – particularly when that’s prefixed with the letters D and J – and not what their mom used to call them in to dinner with. »
It’s a record that remains true to the Cause but is different enough to make even the biggest Rodney Smith head reconsider. »
Sean is a Proper Musician, and this is a Proper Musician’s album. »
For all its lightness, the sum of the parts feels like it means something. »
If hip hop has taught us nothing else it’s to keep… it… real, but Cypress Hill seem to have forgotten lesson number one. Hmm, must be all the shit they’ve been smoking… »
You know Bonobo, right? Even if you think you don’t, you do. The simian soundsmith’s songs will have seeped into your subconscio»
One imagines Joe has many friends who like him very much, for, if his music’s anything to go by, he’s intensely likeable. »
Die-hard John Parish fans aside, the soundtrack won’t quite attain an independent existence for most. It is, however, a proper piece of art in its own right; a thinker. »
There’s giving props and there’s being propped up.»
In short, it certainly has swagger but not so much you’ll want to punch it in the face: Chew Lips have planted a carefully selected crop and, for that, they deserve to reap the rewards…»
