Forum: uk.music.alternative
Again, after recommendations from Ant and other ukmaers, I bought the Whale album ‘All Disco Dance Must End In Broken Bones’ (Hut CDHUT52) the same day I bought Moloko’s ‘I Am Not A Doctor’ (Echo ECHCX21).
Both albums are, in their own ways, bloody bonkers. This is their greatest similarity and the rather [...]
Archive for September, 1998
Forum: uk.music.alternative
I bought Belle & Sebastian’s ‘The Boy With The Arab Strap’ the other day and didn’t like it enormously. I know that’s tantamount to treason round these parts and I’ll get lynched at dawn but I have to be honest.
It starts well with ‘It Could Have Been A Brilliant Career.’ This is [...]
(Warp/Skam Warpcd55 / skald1)
Forum: uk.music.alternative
Well, after many endorsements from Mark and toe, I ordered this from Soundclash and….
It’s amazing. I can honestly say that this record is the closest I’ve heard in terms of aesthetic to Kraftwerk. Unlike Komputer, BoC don’t pastiche K, but they share the same melodic sensibility and sonic freshness. Each [...]
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(sorry for the repost - pipex is being arse)
I’ve finally got round to following some of the recommendations in the bzangy groinky thread and have bought:
We Are Reasonable People - Warp
…which is another Warp compilation. It’s brill, and I think I even prefer it to the old Artificial Intelligence comps. Beautiful tracks by Boards [...]
(Now that I’ve moved to Norwich, I have access to all the hip hop I’ve been wanting to buy for ages…)
Finally got that Jurassic 5 album and it’s good. The obvious first comparison is to De La’s ‘3ft High’ period but there’s other things in there as well. Some of the early Del (TFH) stuff [...]
Oooh, this ties with the Warp comp for being my fave today. Apparently FB got bored with doing house so they decided to go insane with a couple of guitars and a load of samplers and then release the bugger. Which is exactly what I want more bands to be doing. This is where today’s [...]