Another week gone by and its getting bloody colder here in the UK. Whats with that? Anyway, to warm up your cockles we have a serious bunch of features this issue along with the review of the highly anticipated and hyped James Blake album - which I personally have no opinion on, its just average. Alongside that we have an epic giveaway for Round House Rising, see below for more details.
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Twin Shadow - Forget
Terrible Records / 4AD | 87%
As Twin Shadow successfully expresses, there is no harm in revisiting the past. And he is a classic example of when it's done right, it can be magical.
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Crowbar - Sever the Wicked Hand
Century Media | 91%
The more I listen to Sever the Wicked Hand, the more it grows on me. The entire album is crushing and it doesn’t matter if the tempo is slow or fast…Crowbar will annihilate you.
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Intronaut - Valley of Smoke
Century Media Records | 84%
Metal pummelling at its best. The technical precision that metal often wears extremely gaudily, is on beautiful show on Intronaut’s vast, multi-hued adventure in heaviness. But Intronaut are impressively egoless, only rarely veering into anything resembling self indulgence or vacant shredding wank-a-delica.
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James Blake - James Blake
Atlas / A&M Records | 90%
James Blake puts his lyrical and vocal ability on show, as well as showcasing his production capabilities to the mainstream audience – and who says men can’t multi-task?
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Noah And The Whale at The Garage London
January 27th 2011 | 83%
It is always great to see bands play in a place where you could tell that they're comfortable, in this case Noah And The Whale took advantage of the venue and provided a polite yet warm interaction with the audience. As a result their performance was notoriously sincere and direct.
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Polly Mackey & The Pleasure Principle – Higher
The Playground Records | 83%
“Higher” is a resilient and yet intriguingly fragile song; like a sturdy house but with a haunted history that’s forever lingering.
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Build a Band | Issue 2: The Bassist
Ladies and Gentlemen: On Bass we have...
Naturally the response for the position of bassist in probably the greatest band to ever play together didn’t come in huge roves. The likelihood is that this feature may have got old already but let’s remain positive and just put it down to the fact that bassists are, nine times out of ten, the most lamest, nerdy, boring people in the world of music. On equal regularity however they are the most intelligent, musical, much needed members of any group.
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The Lowdown | Neaera bassist Benjamin Donath
As for the experience... cold and snowy as fuck, hahaha...
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New And Noteworthy | Issue #01
Welcome to New and Noteworthy, where unsigned and small-label bands will get a chance to show their stuff. Local music is always a toss-up, where you can be faced with one of two things: a group that tries too hard and falls too flat, or a group that’s “it” – whatever “it” is. Charlotte band Beyond the Fade has definitely got the mysterious “it” factor.
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What Have I Been Listening To? Step Inside My Music Crypt - Issue #20
Hello, everyone, and welcome to Issue #20 of Step Inside My Music Crypt! Glad you dropped by. I just got home from work not too long ago. I’ve been outside enjoying the unusually warm January weather here in Mississippi. It will be freezing cold again in a few days, but that’s how things go here. It’s been yet another madhouse week, and I’m anxious to hear some music. Come on in the house and let’s step on down into the crypt to enjoy some music.
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Famous and Infamous Live Performances...
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The Lowdown: Tahiti 80
"I guess UK journalists know what they're talking about (!)"
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The Lowdown: Steve Senes
"I never know what's gonna come out: eliminating musical ideas because they don't fit a certain criteria could result in some good music"
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File-O-Facts: Burn The Fleet
When it comes to filling out a profile-like questionnaire about yourself, it’s difficult to ensure that that silly side of you doesn’t creep out and take over. However, this is exactly what we want here at AltSounds. We are glad to see that this was a little too much for the Burn the Fleet lads to contain when they filled out the below AltSounds File-O-Facts. Andy, Jack and James took some time out to give us here at AltSounds a little sneak peak at their personalities, which definitely translates over into their energetic and furious experimental/rock music.
Andrew Convey - READ HERE
James Swabey - READ HERE
Jack Spurway - READ HERE
Roundhouse Rising Festival Competition
Roundhouse Rising is a new week-long festival from the Roundhouse presenting the best in new music across a variety of genres. Programmed in partnership with some of the UK’s hottest promoters (including Eat Your Own Ears) as well as Featured Artist Coalition, Rising is a place for cutting edge music, unique performances, international artist collaborations, music industry seminars alongside showcases for emerging talent from within the Roundhouse family.
AltSounds.com is giving away a pair of tickets for each night.
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