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Sep16

Junip – Fields (Review)

Junip

Fields

Released by Mute


Rock trio Junip is Swedish indie folkster José González’s reunited band. The band formed back in Gothenberg in the late 90s' as a teenage hardcore group, and they have released a few singles and EPs. They got together for their new record Fields after a 5-year break where Sony used González’s cover of The Knifes “Heartbeats” to sell TV's back in 2005, and with the international success of Veneer and selling a million records he toured his solo material for a few years. This is the ...
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Apr02

Lou Rhodes – One Good Thing (Review)

Lou Rhodes

One Good Thing

Released by Motion Audio


Manchester’s most cherished female singer Lou Rhodes is back with her third album One Good Thing. For the first time in six years, she was again working with Lamb partner Andy Barlow and the album heralds the first release from Motion Audion, Cinematic Orchestra’s new label. During the recording process, Rhodes was dealing with the suicide of her sister, the ending of a relationship, and moving out of the city and into countryside isolation. The result is her finest, most reflective and brutally raw record to date. It was recorded solely in live takes, and with just one sensitive guitar, one romantic vocal and backing of baroque strings. That is all that is required for this honest and stripped down record.
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Feb12

New Radio Department! Free MP3. (MP3)

INTERVIEWER: “People see Rock and Roll as youth culture, and when youth culture becomes monopolized by big business, what is the youth to do — do you have any idea?”
YOUTH ON THE STREET: “I think we should destroy the bogus capitalist process that is destroying youth culture.”

Sounds nice, but of course, history and human nature have proven that, even though Big Biz is fucked up, even in a world without the profit motive to blame,  you’d still have to destroy the cult of personality, and the (unintentionally ironic) tyranny of the herdspeak created by rebelling, identity-seeking youth, in addition to the inherent fetishism of fame which can bring out the worst in us and, as has been said, makes a man take things over, and which can eff up even the best-laid plans of artist. But I digress…In any case, thus begins the latest from Radio Department which you can download for free… …MORE