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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

Metronomy
Late Night Tales Late Night Tales

Article written by Michael H - Sep 27, 2012

The interesting thing about compilation albums is that it provides a window on to how someone listens to music. If that person, or group, sits in the post-Peel ecletica camp of music fandom, a compilation can draw unlikely lines between very different styles. The latest instalment in the Late Night Tales series, selected by Metronomy, does a great job of this.

Starting out with the space lounge love psych of Outkast’s ‘Prototype’, the album then takes the listener through jazz, hip hop, pop, The Alan Parsons Project, and on to the rawer territories of Herman Dune and Cat Power. The wide eyed non-irony of the selections is admirable. Placing Autechre’s ‘Fold 4, Wrap 5’ after ‘Seabird by the Alessi Brothers was a brilliant idea, it reveals a shared sense of yearning that wouldn’t be entirely obvious when listening to them both at a distance. Likewise, the sequence of Alan Parsons Project, Geneza Jacuzzi and the excellent ‘You Are…’ by Two Lone Swordsmen provoked a grin.

Any album that can cram all this together deserves a recommendation. The main question now is: how do you get invited to one of Metronomy’s parties?

Links:
http://www.myspace.com/metronomy