Daily Archives: 17 October 2010
Groove Armada – White Light
17 October 2010 | aaamusicAfter the acclaimed Black Light and seven moths later, Groove Armada release a new album, White Light. It’s obviously linked to the previous one, in fact as you read the tracklist you find that all the titles belong to … Read More
Our Broken Garden – Golden Sea
17 October 2010 | aaamusicGolden Sea is simply a beautiful album. Beautiful vocals, beautiful lyrics, beautiful soundscapes. While some musicians have trouble maintaining a mood throughout the entirety of an album without falling into repetition, Our Broken Garden manage to overcome this issue, … Read More
Grand Central – My Star
17 October 2010 | aaamusicIf you told the Hannan brothers that we’re not in the 1990s anymore, they could probably react like Hiro Onooda, the Japanese soldier who fought the World War II and surrendered only in 1974 in the Philippine Islands.
This … Read More
The Phantom Band – The Wants
17 October 2010 | aaamusic‘The Wants’ is brand new album from ‘The Phantom Band’, full of soft experimental instrumentals and soothing powerful male vocals similar to that of Simon Neil (Biffy Clyro).
The opening track ‘A Glamour’, is soft and soothing but still … Read More
Cloud Nothing – Hey Cool Kid
17 October 2010 | aaamusic‘Hey Cool Kid’ is the new Ep from Cleveland’s finest ‘Cloud Nothing. The Ep consists of two tracks; ‘Hey Cool Kid’ and ‘Old Street. The vocals are similar to that of Jon Philpot’s (Bear in Heaven) and are teamed … Read More
Jon Thorne & Danny Thompson – Watching The Well
17 October 2010 | aaamusicCinematic, evocative, dreamlike. I thought I should give you the three adjectives that will inevitably be used in describing ‘Watching The Well’, a classically-influenced instrumental album by Jon Thorne and Danny Thompson. Feeling like the soundtrack to the most … Read More
Fallacies – Searching For Conviction
17 October 2010 | aaamusic“Hardcore” is a much-maligned genre, it has to be said. Stemming from a trailblazing pedigree of Fugazi and Minutemen, it has somehow become synonymous with angsty teenagers playing questionable metal very fast. However, from Wolverhampton come Fallacies, with a … Read More
Killer Shrimp – Whatever Sincerely; Tales from the Baltic Wharf
17 October 2010 | aaamusicKiller Shrimp is a super jazz band that lurks in the alleys of London but dreams about the streets of New York.
The trumpet of Damon Brown (Specials, Desmond Dekker), the saxophon of Ed Jones (US3, Incognito), plus the … Read More
Chocolate Genius Inc. – Swansongs
17 October 2010 | aaamusicIt’s very complicate to categorize an artist such as Marc Anthony Thompson, a.k.a. Chocolate Genius Inc., especially after an accurate listening of his fourth album Swansongs.
Here the crude energy of indie rock meets the sensual desires of soul … Read More
Superhumanoids – Urgency
17 October 2010 | aaamusicWhat I particularly like about ‘Cranial Contest’ is that it is undeniably simple and, in honesty, just darn good. The perfect modesty of the first forty seconds bursts into this huge sounding chorus that could have been made even … Read More