January 2011
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My Bloody Valentine - The New Record By My Bloody... →
The New Record by My Bloody Valentine marks the point at which the band started to experiment with pop music and noise; the buzz saw/ ’60s pop sound on most of its tracks reveal strong influence from the Jesus and Mary Chain. It’s a vital point in the development of their sound, falling before the addition of Bilinda Butcher during the Ecstasy and Wine period, but making a clean break...
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Jacuzzi Boys – No Seasons (2009) →
After a string of successful 7-inches, and a full US tour with King Khan and the Shrines, these Miami boys bring you their first full-length and they don’t disappoint. Twelve tracks of good time summer psych jams. Truly capturing the top-down beach-cruising essence of Miami. Recorded at the Living Room in Atlanta, the same studio where the Black Lips recorded Good Bad Not Evil. ~...
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Minks – By The Hedge (2011) →
Fantastic record!!!
New York duo Minks operate a picture-heavy blog that announces a band equally in thrall to American scuzz punk and classic British indie, but it’s the Anglophile side that dominates their debut album ‘By the Hedge’.
Multi-instrumentalists Sean (sometimes Shaun) Kilfoyle and Amalie Bruun have pitched up with a slightly greater than lo-fi production which...
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Smith Westerns – Dye It Blonde (2011) →
Every song in this record is just great. I recommend!
Smith Westerns haven’t conquered the world yet, but they’re set to release their second album before most bands have even settled on quitting their day jobs to pursue the whole music thing. Dye It Blonde, which drops on January 11 on new label Fat Possum (switched over from Chicago-based HoZac), steps away from the scratchy haze...