If melody and the avant garde are strangers, then the dreaded Fairlight synthesiser and good music are claws out, blood letting foes, never to be reconciled. There is an exception that proves this rule. Produced by the incomparable Bill Laswell, ‘Mister Heartbreak’ contains jaw droppingly beautiful melodies and a palette of sounds varied enough to 
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An astonishing album from Shearwater is not exactly newsworthy, in fact it’s the norm for this exceptionally gifted outfit.. Following up the critically acclaimed Rook, was always going to be a challenge, such was the impact of that collection, but in The Golden Archipelago, an album themed around a remote collection of islands and their Take Oboes, Clarinets and Bassoons, a pinch of hip hop, a generous helping of Killing Joke and Bauhaus and season with a healthy disrespect for prevailing trends. Wilful experimentation is something we see too little of these days. These New Puritans have risen to the challenge with gusto, producing an album that is as wonderful The bartender wordlessly slides a tumbler of cheap whisky across the counter. In a corner, the blonde puts a quarter in the jukebox. Her hips sway to a skeletal beat. On the cramped stage, the bass player nods, picks up his instrument and softly at first, joins in. Frowning, he leans into the beat, as And passing that difficult second album test with flying colours we have Vampire Weekend, first out of the blocks this new year. This is a better album than the first, less frantic and less self conscious. Some critics have drawn tenuous links to the Clash, based on a fondness for culture clash musicality and a Produced by John Cale, this is arguably one of the most influential albums ever made, introducing a startled audience to the sound of high art colliding with garage band aesthetics a full twelve months before Malcolm McLaren invented the Sex Pistols. Patti Smith, Keith Richard lookalike extaordinaire, and Lenny Kaye, compiler of the garage band City smart, moody with a whiff of sulphur, Interpol snatched their influences from the new wave. The music of Joy Division, Bauhaus, Television, The Psychedelic Furs and Magazine was ingested and polished to a diamond hard intensity. Spaces were opened up in the arrangements, the lyrics of Paul Banks drew breath and the results, the [...] Psychedelic Furs – Talk Talk Talk (1980) |
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