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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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Single/Download Review

Lupen Crook
Treasons to be Beautiful The Preservation Society Presents

Article written by Ged M - Oct 18, 2012

Lupen Crook can aim his outsider-folk thunderbolts a little too wildly at times but he’s on target with new single ‘Treasons To Be Beautiful’. It’s a passionate, barbed and bilious attack on the status quo – “we need a spirit over a scene/ I’m sick of all of these cunts with all the gear/ but no idea of what it means”. It’s jagged and jerky but also handsome and rousing, challenging us: “are you not living off the crumbs that the big dicks leave?” When he’s at his best like this he’s a little bit Strummer, a bit Ray Davies and a touch Pete-Doherty-without-the-smack. But yin comes with yang with the live cover of ‘The Whole of the Moon‘ where existential aloneness shines through his simple slowed down version, replacing Mike Scott’s “big music” with something sombre and intimate, an elegant answer to those who think him only capable of anguish/anger.

Links:
http://www.lupencrook.com
http://www.thepreservationsocietypresents.com
http://www.facebook.com/lupencrook