Those Darlins
Here’s the next batch of our favourite albums, singles and downloads of 2009. We’re hurtling towards the top 20, as today we give you our selections from 40-21.
40: Yeah Yeah Yeahs - It’s blitz
New York trio’s guitarless innovations strike just the right kind of chord on their third LP.
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The Lovvers album! Scuzz rocking, ear drum splitting punk rock genius, or just a shitty unpleasant noise? We have two reviews for you, and a download link so you can make up your own mind.
In the red corner, we have Ben Munden. He no likee. Read Ben’s review.
In the blue corner, we have Dave Taylor. His ears are still ringing but there’s a...
New vid from the Lovvers. It’s like David Lynch directing the Blair Witch Project, with a soundtrack by The Exploding Hearts.
Their debut album is due out soon. Should be a corker.
“If you have a barrier, look past it, fuck the barrier, deal with it.” Words to live by from Shaun Hencher, frontman of Nottingham-based kerblammo rock princes Lovvers. It’s not a metaphor for anything, he’s talking about an actual barrier, as in one that Lovvers might find between them and the audience. The fucking is probably a figure of speech too, but if you’ve...
So, we had songs for lovvers lovers recently and now we have a taster of the real thing.
AXTXTXIXUXDE is a sneak preview mp3 from the new Lovvers album and it’s very tasty indeed.
The LP, "OCD Go Go Go Girls" is out on August 10th, preceded by the very similarly titled "OCD Go Go Girls" ep (spot the difference) on August 3rd
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In a little less then the month you are going to be bombarded by an album called Dissolver from a band called Iran. People will try and tell you that this band is a side project of TV On the Radio’s because it includes Kyp Malone in the band and because Dave Sitek twiddled the knobs. All of this sort of makes sense, but if you delve a little deeper you will learn that Iran pre-dates TV On...
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Lovvers are loud. Lovvers are filthy. Lovvers have churned out a debut EP of cruddy (in the best way!) punk jams that get the likes of Jay Reatard and Wipers in simultaneous full nelsons. Does that sound like a feat of strength? It is. "Wasted Youth" is about ninety seconds of such derring do, below and free of charge. Above is the...
Without the veil of atmosphere and showmanship which marks Lovvers gigs as raucous, electric events, they have lost their greatest asset and on their album ‘OCD Go Go Go Girls’ they are a significantly diminished prospect.
Lovvers have produced a record true to their relentless and almost principled Lo-Fi ethic, yet despite their undoubtedly punk charm, I...
Venue:
The Macbeth, London
Teaser:
They’re remorseless… they’ve evil… and they’re too fast to be photographed! Amy Rich braves the mullets of Hoxton to bring us this report on Saturday’s Lovvers gig.
Pull quote 2:
expecting them to stay still long enough to ‘say cheese’ for our photographer is out of the question…
First para...
The Lovvers album is a sonic assault. It’s not lo fi exactly - that suggests a kind of slap dash, no care attitude that Lovvers clearly don’t have. It’s just… very loud. It’s so far in the red it could be my bank account. It sounds like the band burst their speakers and the studio engineer’s ear drums with the first guitar chord. They...
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Singles for the week beginning December 17th
Label:
various indie schmindies
Teaser:
It’s been a quiet week for singles this week - but nobody told Lovvers to turn the volume down. They’re back with beastly slab of rock ‘n’ roll, and Cindy Suzuki’s here to take us through that, and the rest of the week’s releases… hit it...
After 3 hours sleep I found myself in Glasgow Airport buying an overpriced tuna cheese melt and iced coffee combo for breakfast, after being given a ticking off for bringing a half-empty deodorant...
The Jim Jones Revue
From: London, United Kingdom
London rockers The Jim Jones Revue have risen from the ashes of legendary UK garage rockers Thee Hypnotics to deliver the world from the computer...
Freedom or Death
From: Toronto, Canada
With a name like Freedom or Death, the war cry for the people of Greece during the 1820’s Greek War of Independence, I was expecting a cacophonous,...
transmittens
From: Lawrence, Kansas, United States
With a name like transmittens and tracks called Balloons in the Sky and Meet Me At The Swings it doesn’t take a genius to guess that...
I’ve really grown to love the album ‘Gemini’ by Wild Nothing over the past few weeks. Jack Tatum’s home recorded dream pop draws from lineage of sounds stretching back to...
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CD Review: Network DVD soundtrack CDs
A recent ‘sale’ on the Network DVD website tempted me into getting around to purchasing the soundtrack DVDs for Man In A Suitcase...
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Concert Review : Mark Mathews and the One T's, Clapham Grand, 07/08/08
My good friend Kieron of The Dilemmas tempted me south of the river to experience singer/songwriter Mark...
If Stephen Malkmus had formed fIREHOSE with Mike Watt and George Hurley, they may have made music akin to Glasgow’s COVERGIRLS. Yes, they’re that good.
One of the most visually stunning festivals in the UK is Scotland’s Wickerman Festival. Not to be confused as a copy of Burning Man, Wickerman was inspired by the classic 1973 cult movie with...
Following on from our time spent with the magnificent Pulled Apart By Horses on their album release tour, we’ve got a full photo gallery of delights from Stephen McLeod to give you an insight...
One of our favourite bands at Artrocker.com has always been The Black Keys. Currently promoting their new album Brothers, we’ve got these exclusive pics from last night’s show at London...
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Festival Review : EuroYeYé 2010, Gijón, Spain 29th July to 2nd August – Part 2 of 2
On Saturday night back at the Oasis, the main gig venue for...
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Festival Review : EuroYeYé 2010, Gijón, Spain 29th July to 2nd August – Part 1 of 2
Took up a long-standing invite back to Gijón to enjoy some...
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TV/Media
Review: Sherlock, BBC1, 26/07/10Well
the BBC did an excellent job of hyping up their 21st century
adaptation of the Sherlock Holmes character, with appearances on...
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Review: The Prisoner (2009) – episodes 4 to 6After
my review of the first 3 episodes I received other peoples’ thoughts
and interest as to what I would make of the...
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Review: Primitive Festival Volume 7, 02-06/06/10, Rotterdam Holland
(www.primitive-festival.nl)I
had the great honour of co-hosting the final Primitive festival in...
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Event
Review: Fan Fest 2010 Review (24-25/04/10)3
months ago the London Film Museum played host to an ambitious array of
Bond girls, Bond villains, film technicians and...
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On the road and in the studio with Glassglue (myspace.com/glassglue)
On hearing that my friend
Matthew’s band Glassglue were going to do some recording in Germany
I was...
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Show
Review : Marketing Week/Insight Show, Olympia 29-30/06/10Popped
into this ‘four shows in one’ marketing event to see what was new.
First I went into one...
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Festival
Review : Southend Film Festival April/May 2010Not
sure who reasoned that a seaside town with occasionally nice weather
might be worth holding a film festival at,...
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TV Review: The Prisoner (2009)
Caught up with the 3 starting episodes of this courtesy of my friend Tony Reeve. God knows the world needs more opportunity for paranoid self-...
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