Fast tracks #1: Ikonika

Every so often a song can jump out and grab you by the backside, give you a little squeeze on your right cheek and make you feel like everything is going to be ok – this one from Sara Abdel-Hamid, A.K.A. Ikonika, is one such track. It’s a bleeping chunk of dubstep with a nice [...]

24 albums I enjoyed and a list that excludes a good few other albums I’ve enjoyed too. Exciting.

Difficult to do these things when you have listened to (and missed) such a huge wealth of music this year. But, just to throw my hat in the ring, here are some albums I enjoyed alot this year. Enter your disgust at my exclusion of Dirty Projectors at the bottom. For the record, I like [...]

If it ain’t broke, then BREAK it and record a 7″ single, bitch

If the whole no-fi/lo-fi thing is a bit too ‘P4k‘ for you then look away now. I’m a big fan. All the bad recording, tinny sound, hard-to-decipher vocals and homemade t-shirts/album covers/everything makes me feel like I’m back in school listening to Bleach again. There seems to be very few bands from the Captured Tracks/ [...]

A gentle reintroduction through the medium of summat new…

If there’s a blogeur equivalent of ‘doing a Pink at the VMAs’ and metaphorically dangling myself upside down from a buff acrobat, banging away on the keys of a keyboard thing to impress you, the agog reader, then this is it. Shiny and new like the Ceann Comhairle’s expensed, and expensive,  Pringle jocks (no little [...]