I'll Be Your Mirror Yeah Yeah Yeahs: the DiS review
Yeah Yeah Yeahs were great, but I'll Be Your Mirror never felt like a ‘real’ festival.»
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lukowski has written the following articles:
Austra - Olympia
Austra come across as something different, the scale of Katie Stelmanis’s vocal too big, too earnest and too other to really comfortably in any given scene. »
R.E.M. - Green (25th anniversary edition)
Green sounds like innocence: a sense of youth and light and simplicity and clumsiness and play.»
Deerhunter - Monomania
Monomania is kind of sloppy, but it also sounds pretty astonishing cranked up load, and it’ll surely find its calling this summer as Deerhunter's most fun album.»
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Mosquito
A blazingly enjoyable record, the most purely fun album the Yeah Yeah Yeahs have made since Fever to Tell.»
Suede - Bloodsports
For all the vigour and discipline, every note on Bloodsports feels polished to virtual sterility.»
David Bowie - The Next Day
The Next Day is only a little better than its two predecessors and probably only David Bowie’s best album since Outside, but that’s not to knock what is easily the best mainstream art pop record of recent times.»
Atoms For Peace - Amok
Amok is, above all, a very pleasurable listen, basically just the sound of some talented middle aged dudes enjoying themselves. Let it wash over you, and you’ll enjoy it too. »
Festival preview: five reasons to go to Croatia's Garden
If you're still at the planning stages of that special summer trip, consider heading over to fair Croatia's gorgeous Garden Festival this July for a week (or a weekend) of unalloyed house-y joy, nice weather and general awesomeness. And here is a list of reasons to back this up.»
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Push the Sky Away
Nick Cave’s schtick these days is less demonic preacher, more old guy railing self-mockingly against the dying of the light.»
My Bloody Valentine - m b v
There are three My Bloody Valentine albums. And they’re all just peachy.»
Indians - Somewhere Else
While there are some lovely sounds on Somewhere Else... but it’s hard not to yearn for something more.»
Where Was He Then? David Bowie's Not-So 'Lost' Decade
The current received wisdom is that following the tour for 2002’s Heathen he fell off the map, but the weird thing about Bowie’s ‘lost decade’ is how little of it was lost....»
Manic Street Preachers - Generation Terrorists (20th anniversary legacy edition)
Some of Generation Terrorists is good, some of it is bad: only a lunatic wouldn’t say it was overegged.»
Bob Mould - Silver Age
They DON’T make ‘em like this anymore, they really don’t.»
Radiohead, Caribou at The O2 Arena, London, Tue 09 Oct
Other bands play arenas like a big version of a normal gig; Radiohead do something else.»
Godspeed You! Black Emperor - 'Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend!
If ‘Allelujah! Don’t Bend! Ascend! is a relatively minor record, it’s one that affirms Godspeed You! Black Emperor still have a place in this world.»
R.E.M. - Document (25th anniversary edition)
REM’s breakthrough album Document may not be the unlikeliest record to crack the Billboard top ten, but it’s one of the more subversive»
Animal Collective - Centipede Hz
It’s Animal Collective for fuck’s sake: if you don’t get some joy out of their records you should possibly give up.»
Yeasayer - Fragrant World
This is a record of adventure and texture, an attempt, musically, to conjure up a future we may never actually have. Maybe that is kind of nerdy, but Yeasayer carry it off with style to spare.»
Various - Just Tell Me That You Want Me: A Tribute To Fleetwood Mac
Indie’s only fractionally ironic love affair with Fleetwood Mac is long lasting and well documented.»
Blur - Modern Life Is Rubbish ('21' reissue)
If the Modern Life Is Rubbish b-sides are the sound of a band coming into peak form as musicians, then Modern Life Is Rubbish is them deciding what to do with that form.»
Smashing Pumpkins - Oceania
The songcraft is back, but the romance is still missing.»
Field Day 2012: the DiS Review
It may have moved back by two months, but Field Day wasn't going to fool DiS reviewers Andrzej Lukowski and Mark Ward - they caught up with its sixth edition last weekend and these were their thoughts.»
Japandroids - Celebration Rock
Perhaps the highest praise anyone can offer Japandroids is to say they make worrying about rock'n'roll sound like the most rock'n'roll thing, ever.»
Damon Albarn - Dr Dee
Yet another musical genre ticked off the list with studious accomplishment and loving care.»
Jack White - Blunderbuss
Jack White has been around for aeons now, is responsible for not one but two Dead Weather albums, was in a film with The Edge and your dad probably likes him. These are all perhaps reasons to assume the worst for Blunderbuss, but the weirdo still has it, he really does.»
Moonface - With Siinai: Heartbreaking Bravery
Why we can’t just have another Sunset Rubdown record I am not sure, but it’s Spencer Krug’s prerogative to do whatever he pleases, and as unexpected career diversions go, this is a pretty good ‘un.»
Bruce Springsteen - Wrecking Ball
The times they are a-hard and it’s good to have this old guy around, warts and all.»
Shearwater - Animal Joy
Like nature itself, Shearwater simply continue, serenely untouched by vagaries of fashion. »