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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)

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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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Motorama
Calendar Talitres

Article written by Ged M - Dec 19, 2012

Motorama are from Rostov-on-Don in southern Russia but their take on post-punk on their second album Calendar sounds more like the sort of records released in Scandinavia. They're rooted in the Cure, Echo and the Bunnymen, U2 and Joy Division except for those times that they sound like Interpol. Their guitars chime, their keyboards swell majestically, Vladislav Parshin’s etiolated vocals grumble gothically like Ian Curtis: “we've been sharing one saddle for several years/ but I still don't know where we are going” (‘During The Years’). And lyrically, the words evoke elemental forces, both emotionally and in the Russian landscape – it’s all quite epic.

It’s quite hard for the listener to get over the 80s sound – the band doesn’t seem to be able to put it aside either. Where it’s good – the riff-tastic ‘To The South’ for example – it’s stirring and super-catchy. But much of the rest rehearses well-tried musical routines to limited effect.

Links:
http://www.wearemotorama.com
http://www.talitres.com
http://wearemotorama.tumblr.com/