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• Junip - Fields woensdag 22 september 2010

  An expertly constructed debut LP from the José González-fronted trio.

  Junip are perhaps most widely known for having amongst their number Swedish singer-songwriter José González, but their short history (this is their third physical release in five years) is rather rich in its own right. Quietly intense, occasionally foreboding songs (including an utterly stellar cover of Springsteen’s The Ghost of Tom Joad as the B side to an old single – Spotify it if you’ve a spare moment and a hanky) that González is known for are beautifully fleshed out by his bandmates Elias Araya and Tobias Winterkorn. On Fields the combination produce their strongest work yet.

• We Love - We Love vrijdag 03 september 2010

  Instrument-making Italian duo reveals a downbeat electro debut of some heart.

  Say what you like about The xx ("Cheer up miseryguts, it might never happen!" is my preferred suggestion), but in dressing old Morcheeba songs up in the neighborhood Goth’s hand-me-downs, they’ve done a sterling job in repopularising the sort of adult-orientated easy listening the lawyers in This Life used to have sex on the sofa to circa 1996.

• Fidelity! maandag 23 augustus 2010

• Lost In The Trees - All Alone In An Empty House maandag 09 augustus 2010

  Via de VPRO Luisterpaal is weer een nieuwe CD te beluisteren. Dit keer is het de CD 'All Alone In An Empty House' van 'Lost In The Trees'. De track lijst is als volgt.

• The Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream donderdag 05 augustus 2010

  The Pumpkins’ best album contains one of the greatest guitar-pop songs ever.

  The Smashing Pumpkins are… were… are? Sorry. The Smashing Pumpkins were not a grunge band. (Billy Corgan’s current outfit truly isn’t worthy of the name.) They were always Stadium Rock Behemoths that had to wait a while to actually become Stadium Rock Behemoths. Their debut LP, Gish, might have emerged in 1991, year zero for grunge with the release of the world-conquering Nevermind. But any similarities to Nirvana’s chart-topper were slight sonic parallels courtesy of sharing the same producer, Butch Vig. The bands came from very different places, and took very different directions. For Kurt Cobain fame and fortune was seen, publically at least, as an aside to his art; Corgan, meanwhile, had his sights on setting the music world ablaze however he could.

• I Heart Hiroshima - The Rip maandag 26 juli 2010

  Via de VPRO Luisterpaal is weer een nieuwe CD te beluisteren. Dit keer is het de CD 'The Rip' van 'I Heart Hiroshima'. De track lijst is als volgt.

• M.I.A. - Maya maandag 19 juli 2010

  De controversiële zangeres Maya Arulpragasam, alias M.I.A., is terug met haar derde album, Maya (op de hoes geschreven als /\/\/\Y/\). Waar de critici voorheen eensgezind waren over de albums Arular en Kala, zijn de meningen sterk verdeeld over Maya.

• Bombay Bicycle Club - Flaws donderdag 15 juli 2010

  Difficult second album syndrome neatly avoided by north London indie kids.

  There was a vogue last year for second albums that were markedly different to the artists in question’s debuts. Jack Peñate, The Maccabees and The Horrors all changed direction, and mostly for the better. The latter in particular earned praise for their about-turn, from mediocre goth-rock to a tantalising blend of krautrock and post-My Bloody Valentine drone.

• M.I.A. - Maya maandag 12 juli 2010

  Joe Strummer would be proud. Maya Arulpragasam, the British-Sri Lankan hip-hop art-punk guerrilla, has his genius for stirring up trouble, his wide-eyed humor, his zest for turning fury into wonderfully fucked-up music. But not even Strummer could piss people off with what he had for lunch. Three years after sampling the Clash in her hit "Paper Planes," M.I.A. is still outraged, proclaiming, "I didn't choose a struggle but a struggle chose me/So I'm dancing on the rubble permanently." And her third album is her most aggressive, confrontational and passionate yet. These songs go heavy on electro-punk buzz, with help from producers like Rusko, Switch, Blaqstarr, Diplo and her brother Sugu. M.I.A. packs every track with left-field surprises: the ghostly Suicide organ on "Born Free," the gospel chant of "Tell Me Why," the Bowie-style robot sheen of "Space." There's also a strange cover of a 1982 Dutch synth-pop oddity, "It Takes a Muscle to Fall in Love." M.I.A. loves noise more than anybody since Public Enemy and N.W.A – she has a voracious ear for alarms, sirens, explosions, turning every jolt into a breakbeat. Some people resent the way M.I.A. refuses to forget where she's been, which means war zones, refugee camps and housing projects, but also art school and dance clubs. Yet that's what makes the music so expansive as she rants about sex ("XXXO"), drugs ("Teqkilla") and bombs ("Lovealot") between goofy jokes ("I drink alcohol/Know the words to 'Wonderwall' "). She covers so much ground because it's all part of who she is. And from the sound of , she's capable of anything – except being dull.

• The Pretty Reckless - The Pretty Reckless dinsdag 29 juni 2010

  star Taylor Momsen has a voice that sounds older than her 16 years – a throaty wail that suggests somebody's been buying her loads of cigarettes. It's the most interesting thing about this debut EP, which is long on generic hard-rock riffs and gothic poetry. "Goin' Down" is a minor standout: Momsen plays a bad girl ("Do you mind if I take off my dress?") over chugging guitar, making for Hole-ish alt-rock that could have charted right around the year she was born.

• Walls - Walls vrijdag 14 mei 2010

  A soundtrack to lift the heaviest of heads from narcotic slumber.

  Morning-after electro from a pair of London-based sorts with previous form in underground outfits, the debut album from Walls is the kind of woozy fare designed to soundtrack the haziest of dawns, to lift the heaviest of heads from narcotic slumber. It’s a collection – brief at less than 30 minutes in length – that shifts from fuzzy drones to gentle beats and synths as spied through gauze of stripped circuit boards and old CPUs. But such is its lightness of touch that the listener may struggle to remember any aspect of it once the curtain’s fallen.

• LCD Soundsystem - This Is Happening dinsdag 11 mei 2010

  Despite occasional flashes of brilliance this is a patchy, derivative work.

  Every album is to an extent the product of its creators’ record collections. That’s brazenly been the case with LCD Soundsystem since their arrival in 2002 with Losing My Edge, on which James Murphy at once mocks and vaunts the faultless alternative credentials of his own. This arch narrative plays out above a punk-funk groove that spawned a genre’s worth of copyists and, with fitting irony, set LCD Soundsystem on the path to joining the pantheon the song described.

• Rufus Wainwright – All Days Are Nights: Songs For Lulu vrijdag 23 april 2010

  Rufus Wainwright is een man van het grote en vooral theatrale gebaar. Zijn laatste studioalbum Release The Stars refereerde uitvoerig aan Broadway en vorig jaar schreef de Amerikaans-Canadese artiest zijn eerste opera, zeer toepasselijk getiteld Prima Donna.

• K's Choice - Echo Mountain dinsdag 06 april 2010

  Zeven jaar nadat Sarah en Gert Bettens K's Choice vaarwel zeiden, zijn ze terug met een nieuwe plaat. Een dubbelaar nog wel. De eerste cd bevat zeven uptempo nummers, de tweede zeven ballads.

• Kids in Glass Houses - Dirt vrijdag 26 maart 2010

  The Welsh rockers introduce a pop immediacy that could propel them into the mainstream.

  “This is not the way we planned it.” So reads the first line of this second album from Welsh quintet Kids in Glass Houses. But despite the concession that the future looked radically different during the days before their debut left a considerable dent in the domestic rock scene, this young band can’t be displeased with where they find themselves in 2010. Dirt is poised to take them from support slots with Lostprophets and Paramore to headline performances at the nation’s larger venues.

• Jónsi - Go donderdag 25 maart 2010

  His voice remains one of modern music’s most readily identifiable instruments.

  Long-term fans of Sigur Rós could be forgiven for feeling a little nervous about Jónsi Birgisson’s new project. The quartet he usually fronts possess many admirable qualities, but their international success owes much to a mystique greatly enhanced by lyrics that are gobbledegook to most. Singing in Icelandic has the useful effect of making you sound like the house band from a science fiction film, an in-built benefit Birgisson has decided to eschew with his first solo record, which is sung mostly in English. If the Sigur Rós spell is ever to be broken, this might be the moment.