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29 March 2013 - Brixton, London

Viv Albertine, VuVuVultures, Left Leg, Mickey Gloss, Big Wave, No Cars, Arthur Gunn, Simon Love (Pictures)

8 March 2013 - Lexington, London

R.Ring, Golden Grrrls, Slushy Guts and Equinox (Pictures)

On Our iPod

Parquet Courts - Light Up Gold (album)

Hard Skin - Why Do Birds Suddenly Appear (album)

Black Angels - Indigo Meadow (album)

Thee Oh Sees - Floating Coffin (album)

R Ring - Fallout and Fire 7”

Royal Headache - self-titled (album)

The Mariner’s Children - Sycamore EP

Can’s Ege Bamyasi played by Stephen Malkmus and Friends(album)

The Fall - Sir William Wray 7"

Lord Huron - Lonesome Dreams (album)

Kid Congo and the Pink Monkey Birds - Conjure Man 7”

Lightning Bolt - Oblivion Hunter

Robyn Hitchcock - There Goes The Ice (2x 12")

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Allah Las
Allah Las Innovative Leisure

Article written by Ged M - Nov 19, 2012

Some great artists inspire you to write interpretive reams; some like the Allah Las can be more simply summed up but the music is just as good. The Californian four-piece are simply besotted with the 60s without you ever feeling like you’ve stumbled across bodysnatchers. The band all worked in Amoeba Records in San Francisco so have excellent 60s-attuned senses, while Nick Waterhouse’s excellent production catches the analogue simplicity and warmth of the folk, garage and psych records with which you’d compare them.

These songs aren’t over-complicated; there are some great riffs and some sweet melodies, and you have the sense that you’ve heard it before but not quite like this. The awesome ‘Sandy’ is mournful pop with some great twangy guitar, ghostly backing vocals and great hooks that accompany the tale of loss and regret: “you flew too close to the sun”. ‘Don’t You Forget It’ has the jangly folk-rock rhythms of the Byrds while ‘Tell Me (What’s On Your Mind)’ is pure Nuggets garage-rock. ‘Sacred Sands’ is a fabulous surf instrumental and ‘Ela Navega’ offers up some bossa nova moves. But the tone shifts at times from California towards Christchurch; the slightly melancholic feel of songs like ‘Vis A Vis’ have all the pop sensibility but cooler tones of Flying Nun bands like the Chills. It’s simply but brilliantly done, retro without being a replication, and late candidate for one of the year’s best records.

Links:
http://allah-las.com/
http://www.innovativeleisure.net/
http://www.facebook.com/allahlasmusic