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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)

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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Snow Palms
Intervals Village Green

Article written by Michael H - Nov 24, 2012

This Snow Palms album is a charmer. On a first listen it’s sweetly unassuming but slowly crawls under your skin and stays there. 'Intervals' comprises a series of Reichian miniatures; all softly cycling woodwind and incrementally shifting melodic contours. The real stars of the show are the constantly chiming struck marimbas, xylophones, glockenspiels and vibraphones. This fidgeting activity complements perfectly the more sustained strains of violin and other stringed instruments.

I find this sort of minimalist instrumental music so soothing that sometimes I’m barely aware it’s playing. That’s not a criticism; I found it so easily and naturally enthralling that listening to it feels like an entirely passive experience. That said, each track is engaging in itself. ‘Snow Light’ is beautiful in its melodic simplicity; a gentle tour around calming gamelan and poignantly placed piano chords. ‘Atoll’ has a phased and fidgeting quality that is complemented by the sweeping strings. ‘Index of Rivers’ is almost indecently pretty, its arrangement of xylophones and plucked violins so perfect, concise and organically realized.

‘Intervals’ is one of those albums that you might put on in the background only to find yourself stilled and calmed by its pristine polyrhythms and emerging from a hypnotized trance once its finished with you.

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