Delorean – Subiza

Delorean - Subiza

A lesson in both history and geography, then. Suitably named, this Spanish outfit have pointed their stainless steel time machine at a certain white island in the Mediterranean and set their flux capacitor for the moment when it was at the height of its power, the beating heart of time and space – that mythical high ahead of the inevitable fall, before it became just another “place where the wave broke and rolled back” that Hunter S Thompson spoke of in relation to another counter-culture hub. … Continue Reading

The Fiery Furnaces – Take Me Around Again

Fiery Furnaces - Take Me Round Again

Heard it all before? It all sounds the same is a common complaint, and one often thrown at folk-tinged garage bands. The Fiery Furnaces do at least try to do things a bit differently – from the throb of electronic beats they sometimes sneak into their output to the bizarre cut and paste approach taken to last year’s live album Remember, which had about three years’ worth of gig recordings spliced together into an odd aural patchwork. But there is a reason their latest effort seems familiar. … Continue Reading

Beach House – Teen Dream

Beach House

Stuck in a perpetual reverse-Narnia where it’s always summer, the aptly named Beach House produce an aptly named woozy album that like liquid sunshine poured into your ear.

The economy’s still fucked and, unless things have changed dramatically since I wrote this, the Northern Hemisphere has plunged into the bitterest winter of recent memory. This might explain the excitement currently being generated by anything that could fall into the Glo-Fi bracket – you can’t afford to even think about a holiday so pour some cheap liquid sunshine into your ear hole instead. Lie back and think of anywhere but England.

While calling Beach House bright hopes for 2010 three albums into their career might belittle what they’ve already achieved and the praise they’ve received for it, if there’s ever a moment when they stand to capitalise on all that, it’s now. And this effort goes a long way to fulfil the promise.

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2004: Danger Mouse, the unremembered-’80s revival, bestiality and Britney’s two-day marriage

2004 got 99 problems but this (comically cut) video ain’t one of them.

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