‘Alex Zhang Hungtai’s hot property at the minute, and following on from a barnstorming mid-afternoon showing at Saturday’s I’ll Be Your Mirror, Dirty Beaches here unleash the scatty brood that is Casino Lisboa. Hungtai’s vocal incomprehensible, so high is the reverb piled it’s one of several instances lifted from the first half of a forthcoming double album, Drifters, which functions as something of a lucid continuation of breakthrough LP Badlands as its author shrieks, moans and groans over and over a mantric throb, minimalist thuds, synth freakouts and so forth. Bury your head below…’
Drifters / Love is The Devil is anticipated May 20th via Zoo Music.
‘I sit outside a moment, squinting toward a London splayed out across a belatedly verdurous horizon. The Shard, scarcely perceptible against a nebulous blur of sky pallid as Anika herself, scratches stanzaic capitalist mantras into the clouds overhead although the spindly thing seems a world away from ATP geographically, as well as ethically. For ATP is an organisation that, over the past ten years or so, has become synonymous with innovation and ingenuity in the live arena. It’s an ethos its architects Barry Hogan and Deborah Kee Higgins have clung to come what may and whatever its cost: for better or worse; for richer or for poorer, they’ve kept to it immovably. Valiantly even, and believe you we – the newly announced concluding of their holiday camp shebangs this coming winter is something of a seismic catastrophe in the world of independent music.’
Dots & Dashes review the Yeah Yeah Yeahs-curated I’ll Be Your Mirror.
‘Less an expressively monomaniacal recording and more another of Cox’ egomaniacal escapades, sounds as though the Georgians are still to orchestrate that obligatorily seismic shift in Pundt’s favour…’
Dots & Dashes review Deerhunter’s misdiagnosed Monomania.
