The Monitors
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He’s been on the road with Bright Eyes, Howler and Broken Social Scene; Skateboard company Element even voted him best new artist of 2009. A little while later, he’s picking up fans as he tours his one man show off the back of his debut self titled EP. AKA Nile Marr, his emotionally driven late 80s grungey guitar vibe really [..]
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With a couple of London gigs making some people very excited at the moment, we thought it time to check out this four piece. And can’t say we’re disappointed. This track is a promising start to the project; sumptuous vocals promises youthful love via romantic keys and laid back instrumentation in the vein of Vampire Weekend. They play the Wheelbarrow in Camden this [..]
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Plenty of new bands around in 2012. That NME cover prophecy from this time last year (just the wrong bands to attach it to, sadly) is becoming true… kind of. Anyway, there’s plenty of decent music from otuside the world of UK guitar bands to enjoy. And I haven’t featured any minimal house in a while. So here goes…
As the cover art, depicting a red lighted bar with lots of single people drinking bottled beer eludes to, this is one to either start the night, or to end it. Heavily panned light synth effects rainbow their way from one ear to another, while the deep, dark basslines boom throughout.
Released on the new Ware records, the fifteen year old Cologne based techno/house label, and their concentration on amazing production values hasn’t dimmed. Throughout this album drum skitter, crack and vocal samples are cut up and broken out in wild spasms.
One for the nodding heads then, but deffinitely a must have release for those of you who are scared by all these wooden things with trings attached, or for times when they’re justa bit too loud.
