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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)

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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The Implosion Quintet
I Don’t Hear A Single EP Cookshop Records

Article written by Ged M - Oct 12, 2009

This has a weird soundtrack quality, as if it belongs in an obscure European movie you stumble over late one night on Film Four, then can’t stop watching because it has a hypnotic strangeness of sound. It’s the oddest blend of Eastern European folk, prog rock, electronica, sampled-pop and opera, as if Beirut had co-opted John Barry. Yet it’s more satisfying than James Baker’s ‘The Future Sound of Yesterday’ album, released earlier this summer, mainly because the four tracks share a common sound, even if each song combines different styles. The excellent ‘Jalopy Peppers’, for example, starts like a Balkan folk song with wheezing accordion before it drops in dramatic snatches of opera, and then stoner rock. That mixture of grand design and playful touches makes this EP a satisfying, if eccentric, listen.

Links:
http://www.implosionquintet.com
http://www.myspace.com/implosionquintet