Hevy Music Festival have released their first batch of bands set to make an appearance over the weekend. With over 60 acts yet to be announced, including the main stage headliners, Hevy is already shaping up as the place to be this summer.
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Guitar music is dead….or so the papers say. As we move into 2012 every music publication is waiting for the next big guitar band, the next Libertines or Arctic Monkeys, a band that can change the landscape of music, a real ‘game changer’ and Tribes have been atop many peoples list including my own. But are Tribes really the saviour of the British guitar band?
One of my biggest problems with modern guitar bands is ‘over production’. I dont know what it is but producers seem to be adamant to strip a band of all of its raw edge in favour of making everything a little too radio friendly and the first positive for ‘Baby’ is that the production is spot on and nothing has been taken away from those scrappy demo’s I heard last year. If anything many of the songs have been enhanced by very sparse production and changing very little from all the original demos.
‘We Were Children’ and ‘Himalaya’ have been elevated to new heights on the album they both have an incredibly anthemic feel without feeling in anyway cliché. To me ‘We Were Children’ has the feel of a ‘I bet you look good on the Dancefloor’ it just demands your absolute attention.
I think its really hard to pick out a favourite track on this album because I like them equally and all for different reasons, I think if I was pushed then album opener ‘Whenever’ would be my favourite, it reminds me of Pavement without ripping them off and the lyrics are so catchy that I’ve had them swirling in my head all day.
Too often bands try too hard to live up to there own hype and very often their debut album is a major disappointment, thankfully that is not the case for ‘Baby’ it’s a stunning album that left me hungry for more from Tribes…and they said guitar music was dead!
9/10
It really takes a special something to be able to produce a purely instrumental based album on the acoustic guitar and keep the listener so engrossed.
…”It’s really nice to have someone that successful at our shows”.
The drums instantly sound vintage and sampled, but this is all original material, and the duo’s aim for an old-school, retro sound compliments the actual musical content of this track perfectly. This is a track that is bound to be enjoyed by everyone.
When I first saw Alestorm a couple of years ago it was the only time in my life I can safely say I felt uncool not wearing a pirate costume.
This charming, woozy little daydream of a song is the musical equivalent of a tiny patch of blue sky on a cold, grey day.
To support the release of his debut solo album on Monday, Craig Finn, the front man of The Hold Steady, will perform tracks from the album, which is called ‘Clear Heart Full Eyes’ at a special show at the Rough Trade East record store on Wednesday 25th January. The gig starts at 7pm and the [...]
Through the ether of the dark room cuts the melancholic bluesy voice of Liam O’Donnell
The All Tomorrow’s Parties festival promoters have announced that US indie-giants The National will be curating this year’s ATP festival at the Butlins Holiday Centre, Minehead, Somerset. The National will be making their only UK appearance at the festival in December. Having enjoyed mainstream success in their native United States, the band headlined last year’s [...]
Woody on vocals, Mr Cheeks on guitar, Rog the Postman and Dazzler on Drums; four self confessed reprobates make up You Save You. They describe themselves as a low down deviant garage rock band and reckon they’re destined for the doldrums. I spoke with lead singer James Wood and I’ve gotta say, I reckon they might be destined for a whole lot more than that….
Fans of the brash party electro made popular by Wolfgang Gartner will be on familiar ground with this first single from Moguai’s forthcoming LP.
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Charles Dickins wrote of ‘Hard Times’ in 1845 , fast forward to 2011 and it seems ‘Abel Tesfaye’, also known as the lead singer in the enigmatic Candian based group The Weeknd, is finding it extremely easy to relate to the title of the book. When it comes to reviewing a record which has had [...]
Autoheart are a London Indie band, lead by soft-voiced Jody Gadsden. They were formerly called The Gadsdens, whos’ biggest hit was The Sailor Song, a piano – driven and shamelessly tender piece of Indie-pop. It was Q Mags’ song of the day and was played on Radio 2. Control is from their forthcoming album and follows [...]
January 11th saw big wins for the UK’s Anna Calvi and Ireland’s James Vincent McMorrow at the European Border Breakers Awards, which was held at the Eurosonic Noorderslag music festival in Groningen, the Netherlands. Coincidently, the awards ceremony was presented by Jools Holland and is a celebration of the best new talent in pop music from [...]
Son Of Eagle are back with more tour dates and a free mp3 for you to get your ears around.
I am sure the weather is now going to get colder and if possible wetter
Hailing from Zurich & Munich, the ‘girls of BOY’ laid down their new material in their producer’s childhood nursery-turned-studio
She Says: ‘I’m going take to the sky on this crazy cloud of mine.”
Altitude Festival offers an alternative experience to that of Snowbombing – comedy and snowboarding? Yes please!
Hailing from Zurich & Munich, the ‘girls of BOY’ laid down their new material in their producer’s childhood nursery-turned-studio
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