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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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Shana Falana
In The Light self-released

Article written by Ged M - Feb 12, 2013

Shana Falana are a shoegazing band from Brooklyn whose self-released EP makes a big impression. It’s drone-pop dreampop, a muscular sound that soars, with elements of the Cocteau Twins and Les Mysteres des Voix Bulgares plus a little Brian Jonestown Massacre. ‘Dizzy Chant’ creates a sumptous atmosphere with Shana Falana’s voice – making ecstatic sounds packed with feeling - reminiscent of Elizabeth Frazer in her prime, while ‘Light The Fire’ is a wordless, breath-shaped lullaby. Other songs are more decipherable, like the sweet-voiced and emotional ‘In The Light’, while ‘Tragic’ adds the snagging violin of Jane Scarpantoni to the shoegazey rhythms, until the EP ends with ‘Yeah Yeah’, a woozy electropop song with those words the only lyrics. Produced by Kevin McMahon (Real Estate, Titus Andronicus), this is oversaturated indiepop full of drones and chants, that overwhelms you in waves of warm emotion.

Links:
http://www.shanafalana.com/
http://www.facebook.com/shanafalanamusic