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• Peaking Lights - 936 dinsdag 13 december 2011

  Captivating grooves abound on the west coast duo’s first UK LP.

  Smorgasbord albums can be trying listens, attempts to mesh a mishmash frequently resulting in missteps undermining what might’ve otherwise been a solid and satisfying collection. Ambition is to be encouraged, sure; but when acts think of themselves too highly, assuming that if they can nail rudimentary indie-rock riffs then a little electro aside segueing into some half-arsed mimicking of something avant-garde is fair game too, end products are rarely worth the polycarbonate plastic they’re presented on.

• Nickelback - Here And Now vrijdag 02 december 2011

  Het gladgepolijste Canadese rockkwartet Nickelback is alweer toe aan zijn zevende album, waarop de groep begrijpelijkerwijs rustig voortbouwt op de formule die haar in het verleden geen windeieren heeft gelegd: het schrijven van pakkende blije liedjes.

• Peaking Lights - 936 zondag 20 november 2011

  Amerikaans echtpaar Aaron Coyes en Indra Dunis maken onder de naam Peaking Lights trippy lo-fi popmuziek met duidelijke dubinvloeden. Een ietwat bizarre mix die in de basis verrassend prima werkt. 936 is hun tweede album.

• Widowspeak - Widowspeak zaterdag 12 november 2011

  Stel je voor, de romantiek van Chris Isaak in zijn hang naar de jaren vijftig uitgevoerd met de charme van Catpower. Verleidelijke lo-fi met vrouwelijke vocalen. Dat is het geluid van het gelijknamige debuut van Widowspeak.

• Sonic Youth - Hits Are for Squares vrijdag 04 november 2011

  A gentle point of entry into the influential band’s sprawling back catalogue.

  If you affiliate yourself in any way with punk, grunge, alternative or avant-rock and haven’t yet familiarised yourself with at least a handful of Sonic Youth recordings then there’s something sorely wrong. They’ve shared stages and labels with your favourite bands be they Swans, Black Flag, Nirvana or Merzbow and influenced more nerdy teenagers to experiment with alternate tunings and feedback than you could possibly shake a stick at. Without them we most likely wouldn’t have ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead, Mogwai or The Men and a whole generation would be fuddling around in the dirt wondering where to take rock music next.

• Lisa Hannigan - Passenger dinsdag 11 oktober 2011

  A second LP from the Irish singer which feels unforced, spontaneous and timeless.

  County Meath’s Lisa Hannigan once harboured theatrical ambitions but first came to public attention not as a thespian but as the counterpoint voice (and occasional lead) in Damien Rice’s band. Quitting that successful, but for a fledgling songwriter, increasingly frustrating franchise in 2007, Hannigan’s hastily recorded solo debut of 2008, See Sew, gained her a Mercury Music Prize nomination and platinum sales. With the release of Passenger, Hannigan, now 30, seems to be drawing a line under all that, or at least signalling the end of a lengthy apprenticeship and the arrival of a mature singer-songwriter possessed of an idiosyncratic yet thoroughly accessible gift.

• The Smiths - Complete zondag 02 oktober 2011

  Muziek / CD-recensies

• Blink-182 - Neighborhoods vrijdag 30 september 2011

  An unexpectedly great sixth LP from former fun-time punks turned introspective souls.

  When a band announces an indefinite hiatus, as baggy-shorted pop-punk funsters Blink-182 did in 2005 after five LPs and a few circumventions of the globe, they usually never return. (Yes, we’re looking at you, Fugazi, and still waiting.) And when tragedy strikes that band, those chances of a comeback become slimmer still. In 2008, Blink drummer Travis Barker, at the time a member of +44 alongside fellow 182-er Mark Hoppus, was in an air crash, and only just survived. His accident happened less than a month after regular Blink-182 producer Jerry Finn died of a brain haemorrhage. That sixth album was looking ever more distant.

• Drugstore - Anatomy donderdag 29 september 2011

  Indie band’s comeback LP is a fine document of like-it-is affairs.

  Fronted by UK-based Brazilian singer Isabel Monteiro, Drugstore emerged in 1993. But their slow, yearning songs were at odds with the primary colours of Britpop. In fact, they never really fitted into any particular category and, despite high profile fans like Thom Yorke and Jeff Buckley and a top 40 album, they drifted towards the margins until announcing a hiatus in 2002.

• Tori Amos - Night Of Hunters zondag 25 september 2011

  Muziek / CD-recensies

• Tori Amos - Night of Hunters dinsdag 20 september 2011

  Hard work, but this is an album which reveals rewards.

  This album is hard work. Night of Hunters is billed as a "21st century song cycle inspired by select classical pieces spanning the last 400 years". "The protagonist", as Tori Amos describes the character she plays here, is "a woman who finds herself in the dying embers of a relationship". During the course of a single eventful night, she experiences "an initiation of sorts that leads her to reinvent herself" – apparently "allowing the listener to follow her on a journey to explore complex musical and emotional subject matter".

• Blue October - Any Man In America zaterdag 03 september 2011

  Muziek / CD-recensies

• Muse - Origin of Symmetry woensdag 17 augustus 2011

  A second album of impressive ambition that changed everything for its makers.

  To give Origin of Symmetry some context, it was the album that pushed Muse into upper echelons of the charts; a set that marked Matt Bellamy’s lyrics out as speaking defiantly, ponderously, on behalf of Muse’s ever-growing fanbase. During interviews in the run-up, they talked of this album marrying their equally-divided love of Rachmaninoff and Rage Against the Machine, and a growing number of fans lapped it up.

• The Weeknd - House of Balloons donderdag 14 juli 2011

  A startling debut from a young Canadian RnB artist with huge potential.

  The Weeknd is 21-year-old Toronto resident Abel Tesfaye. House of Balloons is his debut album, distributed freely online, and it’s quite unlike any other RnB collection to have emerged in 2011. Thanks to a Twitter leg-up from fellow Toronto artist Drake, Tesfaye has seen his underground tracks edge towards the mainstream, and earlier this month House of Balloons made the shortlist for the Polaris Prize, Canada’s equivalent of the Mercury. Come 19 September Tesfaye could be both $30,000 better off – that’s the prize money on offer – and in a position to genuinely vie for album-of-2011 top spots.

• Point Venture, WA - Handsome Orders woensdag 13 juli 2011

  Via de VPRO Luisterpaal is weer een nieuwe CD te beluisteren. Dit keer is het de CD 'Handsome Orders' van 'Point Venture, WA'. De track lijst is als volgt.

• Limp Bizkit - Gold Cobra dinsdag 28 juni 2011

  Wie had dat ooit gedacht: Limp Bizkit is terug. En dat niet alleen, nieuwe plaat Gold Cobra is het eerste album met alle originele leden sinds 2000. Maar heeft Limp Bizkit anno 2011 nog wel bestaansrecht?

• The Doors - The Doors maandag 20 juni 2011

  Took popular music into areas previously thought impossible.

  Sgt. Pepper’s bestrode 1967 like a kaleidoscopic colossus, but another album arguably even more revolutionary appeared that year. The eponymous debut of The Doors took popular music into areas previously thought impossible: the incitement to expand one’s consciousness of opener Break on Through was just the beginning of its incendiary agenda.

• The Antlers - Burst Apart donderdag 16 juni 2011

  De vakantie staat voor de deur. Een periode waarin vele liefdes zullen ontbloeien, eerste kussen zullen vallen en harten worden gebroken wanneer de tent weer wordt opgeruimd voor de volgende camping. Aan The Antlers opdracht al dit leed met schoon te verzachten. De soundtrack bij de hoop op open eindes, bij elk gesloten boek.

• Simian Mobile Disco - Delicacies maandag 20 december 2010

  Via de VPRO Luisterpaal is weer een nieuwe CD te beluisteren. Dit keer is het de CD 'Delicacies' van 'Simian Mobile Disco'. De track lijst is als volgt.

• 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.