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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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Tyvek
On Triple Beams In The Red

Article written by Ged M - Dec 19, 2012

The third album from Detroit punks Tyvek is hard-edged but with killer tunes. Some of it is pretty hardcore, like the ramshackle construction of ‘Sea Walls’ which explores weird pastimes that pass for fun in the Motor City (“stealing sand from the stone company/ filling up bags at night”) and the scratchy staccato rhythms of ‘Little Richard’. ‘City Of A Dream’ is very English melodic punk which sounds like it could have been knocked off at the Roxy in 1976, while Kevin Boyer has the half-sung, half-chanted delivery of Wire’s Colin Newman, most notably on the brilliant lo-fi punk-pop ‘Scaling’. ‘Efficiency’ breaks the mould with a 6 minute shronky free jazz with wailing sax that combines Beefheart and the Fall but the standout tune is the anthemic ‘Wayne County Roads’. Not, as first hoped, a tribute to the paths followed by the transsexual punk-rock performer in the 70s, it’s a hymn to escaping by road along the byways of an Illinois district. The result is almost classic drive-time rock without the clichés, addictive enough to make you want to scream out the chorus.

The production (by Saturday Looks Good To Me’s Fred Thomas) captures the rawness of the band without sounding too polished, combining the buzzsaw rhythms and visceral punk scrunch of previous records with a massive melodic kick. It’s a cinch for punk fans but works just as well for fans of great independent music too.

Links:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Tyvek/147665385291158
http://www.intheredrecords.com/pages/tyvek.html
http://www.myspace.com/tyvekmusic