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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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Album Review

Philippe Petit
Hitch-Hiking Thru Bronze Mirrors Aagoo Records

Article written by Michael H - Dec 12, 2012

An unsettling weirdness hangs over this album. It wouldn’t be an enormous surprise to read that it was recorded at the Overlook Hotel during a period of winter janitor work. It comprises 10 movements of creeping surrealism, dread-filled electro-atmospherics, alien melodies, odd tunings and prepared instruments.

Philippe Petit’s ‘Hitch-Hiking Thru Bronze Mirrors’ is the final part of a trilogy depicting a “Lemon girl’s nonsensical journeys through oneiric lands.” Supposedly, on this album, the Lemon Girl returns to reality; luckily for the listener, this reality is full of deep strangeness. Occasionally, a piano will waltz your ears through rolling open spaces only for a crashing noise and a rapidly fluctuating taut string plucking to throw you back into confusing twisting corridors of sparse horror full of electronic drone, creaking paranoia and walls of unseen watching eyes.

Twentieth century ‘New Music’ is undoubtedly an influence on the albums dissonance, atonality, machine repetition, minimalism and drones. Philippe Petit’s interpretation of this period of post-war musical experimentation is impressively mad. No overarching theme seems to present itself, just an unfolding vista of unpredictable sound.

This surreal brain-shaking tooth-lined rabbit hole of an album offers up a rewarding trip through the sublime and uncanny, often detouring into periods of tense horror. It grips from beginning to end.

Links:
http://www.philippepetit.info
http://www.aagoo.com