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Pictures from some recent gigs we've hosted:

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)

Antony Harding - Why Do Birds Suddenly Appear (album)

Black Angels - Indigo Meadow (album)

Thee Oh Sees - Floating Coffin (album)

Still Corners - Strange Pleasures (album)

Savages - Silence Yourself (album)

Mikal Cronin - MC II (album)

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

Victoria and Jacob - Festival 7"

Vampire Weekend - Modern Vampires of the City (album)

Sauna Youth - False Jesii Part II 7”

Lightning Bolt - Oblivion Hunter

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

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Album Review

Brokeback
Brokeback and the Black Rock Thrill Jockey

Article written by Michael H - Jan 5, 2013

Brokeback is the product of Tortoise’s Douglas McCombs and his fertile musical imagination. Opening with ‘Will Be Arriving’, the album immediately establishes its prevailing sound: a deftly unfolding melodic horizon comprised of soft thumps of percussion and steadily building guitar lines that flex and expand to incorporate loud reverb-heavy rumble as much as sensitively clustered flurries of notes. This album is alive with understated action and purpose; tracks like ‘The Wire, The Rug, and the Payoff’ and ‘Don’t Worry Pigeon’ unwind organically and intuitively, the musicians exploring different avenues in which to take each song. There is a very effective use of space throughout; ‘Who is Bozo Texino?’ has some great ringing gaps between sparsely plucked guitar strings.

The highlight is the brilliant ‘Colossus of Roads’. Beginning with a repetitive humming riff over an increasingly thick knot of percussive ambience, the drumming eventually breaks out and wraps a patiently heavy frame around the guitar which embarks on ten minutes of hypnotic desert psych-rock.

This is an album for closed eyes. It seems effortlessly visually evocative of Edward Hopper late-night diners, abandoned dusty gas stations, threatening but melancholy dive bars and long exhausting empty roads.

Links:
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