Month: January 2005

Our own and the future’s love affair with the 1980s continues in solid style with the release of the hugely enjoyable and retrotastic ‘Phantascope’ by the inevitably New York centered ‘Anubian Lights’. Brought together in 1995 by Tommy Greñas and Len Del Rio through a mutual love of Kraftwerk, Cabaret Voltaire, Warp and Factory Records the band made their debut in 2001 with Nazbar via the now defunct Disc Hot Wax! Label. This time, however, the boys have brought in Continue Reading

To nit-pick, or not to nit-pick; that is the question. Or it’s my question at least in respect of Feeder’s fifth studio album, ‘Pushing The Senses’ whose ruminative introspection threatens to plod like an elephant over thumping tigerish efforts like ‘Buck Rogers’, and leave big, baggy pools of melancholy in its wake. Many would argue that it was previous album, ‘Comfort in Sound’ that really marked the departure from the razor-sharp power-pop of breakthrough album ‘Echo Park’ – but the Continue Reading

Comparable to the likes of Amp Fiddler in her tenacious and eclectic pursuit of a nu-soul groove through the jittery ravages of drum and bass and the smooth, fluid heartaches of classic r n b, Oakland, CA born singer, songwriter, and spoken-word artist, Jennifer Johns at the very least manages to wrestle with innovation and complexity even if she doesn’t completely master it on first album, ‘Heavyelectromagneticsoularpoeticjunglehop’. The Eastern backdrop to the graceful and hypnotic ‘Heavy (808-jungalastic afro freak) even Continue Reading