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• The Morning Benders - Big Echo woensdag 07 juli 2010

  An easy-going, superbly summery second album from the Californian quartet.

  If it’s a pleasantly summery sound you’re after while the sun beats down – best not get too used to it, eh? – then you could do a lot worse than seek out the second album from Californian quartet The Morning Benders. Splicing Beach Boys harmonies with the indie-folk mutterings of Grizzly Bear – imagine the New Yorkers had recorded Veckatimest on the west, rather than the east, coast – Big Echo is an immediate, inviting listen. It’s not breaking any boundaries of inspired expression, but for what it is it’s a fine set indeed.

• Scissor Sisters - Night Work dinsdag 29 juni 2010

  When these New Yorkers debuted in 2004, their flamboyant glam pop made them stars in Europe – not to mention a welcome new queer voice in rock. Three albums in, the Sisters are as gleefully hedonistic as ever: The beats still have that mirror-ball gleam, the slinky tunes still lodge themselves in your cranium, and Jake Shears' lyrics are still laced with not-quite-subtle sex talk ("Sting me like a bee/I want you to funk me"). Every song sounds like some other band, from the Bee Gees disco of the title track to the Talking Heads-y paranoia of "Running Out." But that's no reason to hate on this good-natured party.

• Kele - The Boxer maandag 28 juni 2010

  Terwijl de rest van Bloc Party het voorbeeld van Wouter Bos en Camiel Eurlings volgt en zich richt op het eigen leven en gezin, gaat Kele als een muzikale Jack de Vries aan een artistieke buitenvrouw.

• Surfer Blood - Astro Coast donderdag 24 juni 2010

  Surfer Blood is een bandnaam die stiekem al veel verraadt over de stijl en herkomst van de groep. West Palm Beach in Florida is hun standplaats, een plek waar surfen op zijn zachtst gezegd geen uitzondering is. Met de albumtitel Astro Coast wordt nogmaals een linkje richting hoge golven gelegd. Zou de muziek dan ook meteen in de surfhoek vallen? Olijke Beach Boys klanken wellicht? Of iets totaal tegenovergesteld? De bandnaam bestaat namelijk ook nog half uit de term "Blood". Dit kan op donkere klanken duiden, zeker in combinatie met de albumhoes waarop een bloederige bek van een witte haai te zien is. 

• Alejandro Escovedo - Street Songs of Love woensdag 23 juni 2010

  Alejandro Escovedo is a classicist, weaned on punk verities, schooled in American roots music. Now pushing 60, he's making some of the fiercest music of his career. His latest evokes Eighties heartland rock: "Anchor" feels like a long-lost radio hit; Ian Hunter adds scruffed harmony on "Down in the Bowery," and Bruce Springsteen duets on "Faith," a swaggering New York Dolls-ish rocker about rock & roll survival, something the two men know a bit about.

• Surfer Blood - Astro Coast woensdag 09 juni 2010

  A synthesis of all that’s prevalent in today’s all-conquering US indie-rock invasion.

  If people still do as Blue Peter used to and plant time capsules in their garden in order to give future generations a glimpse of what life was like in ye good olde days, then Surfer Blood’s debut record is a strong candidate to represent US indie-rock right now. Not because it’s a mind-expanding example of new music, or indeed the best thing we’ve heard this year. But simply because Astro Coast sounds so very like a synthesis of all that’s prevalent in today’s all-conquering US indie-rock invasion.

• Nevermore - The Obsidian Conspiracy zondag 06 juni 2010

  Het is even wachten geweest op een album met werkelijk nieuw Nevermore materiaal, maar nu het dan eenmaal zover is, heb je ook zeker wat.

• Foals - Total Life Forever donderdag 06 mei 2010

  Foals’ second album discovers the missing Z, the heart, to their rigorous X and Y axes.

  Second albums, as John Lennon once famously remarked, are what happen when you’re busy making other plans. Just ask Oxford five-piece Foals, whose career to date has been distinguished by colossal doses of hype and the sort of niggling pomposity which led frontman Yannis Philippakis to declare his ambition to write a “ballet with beats”. Foals, he seemed to be suggesting, were in the Future Business.

• Clogs - The Creatures in the Garden of Lady Walton woensdag 05 mei 2010

  Embraces the listener with a silken touch, seducing them with beguiling beauty.

  Padma Newsome’s Clogs – the group he co-founded with fellow member of The National, Bryce Dessner, back in the late 1990s – have long defied easy pigeonholing, delivering four albums of ambitious chamber-music-meets-jazz, via post-rock instrumentals between 2001 and 2006. This, their fifth long-play set, arrives after a four-year break in releases – and, more pertinently, represents the ensemble’s first foray into material with vocals.

• Broken Social Scene - Forgiveness Rock Record donderdag 29 april 2010

  The group’s first album for five years features some expectedly great moments.

  Given that most albums suffer from a woeful dearth of ideas, it may seem somewhat perverse to criticise one for flourishing too many. However, Forgiveness Rock Record – the fourth album by Canadian collective Broken Social Scene, and their first for five years – would have benefited immensely from brisk editing. It’s not that the umpty-dimensional indie-prog melange presented here is objectionable – far from it – but that it’s so unfocused that it becomes difficult to perceive Broken Social Scene as anything but the musical equivalent of a chimpanzee typing pool: when they do come up with something lucid, it feels like it’s rather more by accident than design.

• The Radio Dept. - Clinging to a Scheme maandag 12 april 2010

  Measured Swedish outfit come up with new material most definitely worth the wait.

  It’s been a head-scratchingly long time since we last heard from The Radio Dept. – four get-a-bloody-move-on years to be exact And despite being together in one form or another since the mid-90s, the group has only put out three records, including this one. Doesn’t usually bode well, does it? But as a return, and a hugely anticipated one at that, Clinging to a Scheme quickly proves that we’re safe as ever in the Swedish outfit’s slow-to-create, yet intent-on-perfection hands.

• We Have Band - WHB maandag 12 april 2010

  The electro-pop Londoners score as many hits as misses on their debut.

  We Have Band may be a manifestly ridiculous name to operate under, but the buzz around the London electro-pop trio since their formation has been substantial, with the former EMI employees managing to wrangle their way onto an opening slot at last year's Glastonbury Pyramid Stage by dint of winning that festival's emerging talent competition. A record deal, plenty of hard work and several months later we find ourselves with their effectively eponymously titled debut, WHB.

• The Tallest Man On Earth - The Wild Hunt zondag 11 april 2010

  Iedereen die in het afgelopen jaar oor en oog enigszins open heeft gehad, moet hem voorbij hebben zien komen, The Tallest Man On Earth.

• The Tallest Man on Earth - The Wild Hunt woensdag 07 april 2010

  A heady and enthralling work full of charm and confidence.

  Sweden’s Kristian Matsson – The Tallest Man on Earth to you and I – is an old-fashioned success story of sorts. Following his posting of a few primitively recorded tracks to MySpace a few years ago, it wasn’t long before a local label head came knocking and he was touring the wilds of his native country, barely enough songs behind him to carry a set list.

• Liars - Sisterworld maandag 05 april 2010

  After tearing up the New York post-punk scene in the early 2000s, the Liars reappeared as Berlin electronic experimentalists and L.A. industrial groove things. Their fifth album lays claim to L.A.'s pulpy occult mythos with glowering noise brutalism and evil chant-singing that suggest TV on the Radio as a hippie death cult. Angus Andrew intimates violence everywhere: There are dead-souled stoners on "The Overachievers," and he's blasé "counting victims one by one" on "Here Comes All the Peo...

• MGMT - Congratulations donderdag 01 april 2010

  After a debut of sing-along hits, the duo takes refuge in druggy experimentalism.

  There is a stock interview quote given by artists following up a wildly successful album, explaining the new direction they’ve taken.

• Marina & The Diamonds – The Family Jewels zondag 28 maart 2010

  In tegenstelling tot wat de naam doet vermoeden is Marina & The Diamonds een soloproject van Marina Diamandis. Vorig jaar liet ze van zich horen via de singles Obsessions, Mowgli’s Road en I’m Not A Robot, nu ligt er een volledige plaat: The Family Jewels.

• 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.