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THIS WEEK'S ALBUMS
Here's what the team are reviewing this week.
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FENNESZ
From Wikipedia:
Christian Fennesz (born 25 December 1962) is an Austrian producer and guitarist active in electronic music since the 1990s, often credited mononymously as Fennesz. His work utilizes guitar and laptop computers to blend melody with treated samples and glitch production. He lives and works in Vienna, and currently records on the UK label Touch.
WHITE DENIM
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From Wikipedia:
White Denim is an American four-piece rock band from Austin, Texas, United States. Their music is influenced by dub, psychedelic rock, blues, punk rock, progressive rock, soul, jazz, experimental rock with home-based recording, jamming approach, intense looping work and unusual song structures.
Mosaic
LAUREN MAYBERRY
From Wikipedia:
Lauren Eve Mayberry (born 7 October 1987) is a Scottish musician who is the vocalist and percussionist of the pop band Chvrches. In Chvrches, Mayberry co-writes and co-produces the songs with Iain Cook and Martin Doherty, and sings as the lead vocalist. She also plays drums and keyboards. Mayberry is a soprano. She is also an active feminist and philanthropist.
NIA ARCHIVES
Silence is Loud
From Wikipedia:
Dehaney Nia Lishahn Hunt (born September 1999), known professionally as Nia Archives, is an English record producer, DJ, singer and songwriter. Born in Bradford in West Yorkshire, she moved to Leeds aged seven, out of the family home aged sixteen, and then to Greater Manchester, during which time she was inspired by jungle documentaries and their women participants.
Vicious Creatures
CLASSIC ALBUM OF THE WEEK
Emmy The Great and Tim Wheeler - This is Christmas
From DIY Magazine:
Wonderfully, the whole darn record reminds me of the Christmas period in it’s full extent. Moments of sheer, unbridled, childlike joy, confused, bewildered, stressful sections and a tone or two of disappointment, all accompanied by moments of melancholy and the occasional slapdash comedic oddity. It’s mostly a beautifully composed collection, beginning with a soaring string introduction that recalls classic Christmas tracks from the likes of Bing and Nat before dropping into a rumbling cover of ‘Marshmallow World’, a standard saccharine ode to snow. The two go on to avoid the pitfalls of the traditional holiday record by jumping to pop punk riffs, on ‘Christmas Day (Wish I Was Surfing)’, and creepy, jarring indie pop, on ‘Zombie Christmas’. The latter track is exactly what it sounds like, with Emmy sweetly crooning about a Day of the Dead state of affairs during the celebratory season, with such beautiful sentiment as ‘All the angels singing, Christmas time is here, oh man you better run, run, run”.
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