Category: Reviews
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Review: Egyptian Blue – High The Hyena
Slightly psychedelic indie is pretty trendy right now, so it takes alot to stick out. Egyptian Blue certainly seem to be taking a good stab at it with this track, which comes complete with a distorted and coloured video to go with it. Distorted rythmn is layered with overly reverb soaked lead guitar, the vocals…
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Review: Fortunato – Black Laces
With a quiet start, this new track from Bury-St-Edmunds based Fortunato is a bit unsuspecting for the first few seconds, the vocals taking everything up a notch pretty quickly. The excellent harmonised vocals lead into a sudden increase in volume as distorted guitars and drums kick in. In places it reminds me of bands like…
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Review: Superglu – Horse EP
Just over a year as a band and Superglu are already hitting poppy-rocky indie tracks right out of the park. Previous singles showed promise but Horse, their debut EP, shows off some of the glory of their live set with slightly smoothed edges and a bit of polish. First single Rounder set the tone quite…
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Live Review: Love Love Records Anti-Valentines Day Ball
‘Eclectic’ doesn’t really do this insane lineup justice; the bill featuring djs, bands of assorted genre, a grime preacher, interpetive dance. Ridiculous. By the time I get there a dj set is in full flow, slightly glitchy music filling the room. It’s a short wait before we’re greeted by μ2, who’ve somehow grown in size…
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Live Review New Town Kings’ New Years Eve Celebration 2015
Live music on New Years Eve can usually be a bit of a downer; it’s a big earner for covers bands, certain pubs knowing that inoffensive not-quite-as-good renditions of well known songs for some reason draw a crowd. The Arts Centre wouldn’t commit such offense though; they know full well that the only way to…
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Review: Roy (Supporting Superglu) House Show, 21/12/2015
There’s not whole lot of things that’ll get me over to a house party on a Monday night the week before Christmas but, having seen a single video on Facebook of part of a Roy track, and having heard the hype recently, I had to go and see their first show. For those of you…
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Islam Chipsy, Dead Rat Orchestra, μ2 Colchester Arts Centre, 11/12/2015
It seems like Colchester has been doing a good job of bringing the weird and wonderful world of music home recently, but I was still fairly surprised to read about Islam Chipsy and E.E.K, an eclectic keyboard player performing with two drummers, playing improvised pieces. Watching a few videos online, I was sold; it looked…
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Sam Duckworth, Recreations Three Wise Monkeys, 09/12/2015
Quietly, in the last month, Sam Duckworth has reinvented his Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly. moniker. Lacking an outlet for his more electronic oriented music, Recreations is the new name for Sam and his laptop, performing a mixture of songs from his back-catalogue, as well as newer tracks with a beat. Opening with a Recreations…
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Review: Kitech & Sleeper Cell – Arachnid
With Kitech confirmed for Love Love Records’ alternative Valentine’s party on February 13th, and this new split with Sleeper Cell released earlier this month, it’d be rude not to give it a listen! Creepy synth lines are met by hard bass as Brink of Evolution builds up, the drum ‘n’ bass beat driving the track…
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Off The Wall – Marvel Superhero/Hard To Sack
Big riffs. The opening of Marvel Superhero kicks like a Rage Against The Machine track, a simple yet effective heavy hitting beast of a track springing to life. Sort of ironically, despite the chorus being “I’m not a Marvel Superhero” I could imagine this kind of thing being used to soundtrack one of the films.…
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