Dots & Dashes

‘Rather ironically, in revisiting previous releases in full, with setlists consequently dictated by tracklistings, the live shows have become less predictable and, ultimately, more pleasurable.’

Live Review: Manic Street Preachers, Royal Albert Hall.

‘These contemporary symphonies are forces of nature, and are surely to be reckoned with...’

Live Review: Explosions In the Sky, Royal Albert Hall / Rough Trade East.

Blog: Weaves, Candy.

‘Not since Feels have Animal Collective visibly been “feeling [this] good,” with their characteristically refractory tunes sounding considerably better still...’

Live Review: Animal Collective, Troxy.

‘In spite of its intrinsically contrasting tones, there is an unlikely fluidity to tonight’.

Live Review: Liima, Rich Mix.

First Transmission: Gypsum, Follow Me.

First Transmission: Fluida, Jambu.

Blog: Arthur Beatrice, Every Cell.

‘Fear of Men now need to better adjust the contrasting blacks, whites and in-betweens of their back catalogue in order to successfully calibrate past and present, and to ensure their future is brighter than that of their native Britain...’

Live Review: Fear of Men, The Victoria.

‘Battles, tonight, make a little bit of a meal of it. Which, as auteurs of some of my very favourite (re)releases of recent times, really is surprisingly painful news to swallow...’

Live Review: Battles, Electric Brixton.

Blog: Andy Shauf, The Magician.

First Transmission: Swimming Tapes, Souvenirs.

Blog: Weaves, One More.

Blog: Gabriel Bruce, Metal Soul.

‘If [Kristine Leschper’s] feeling “crushed by the weight of [her] own ego” in life, as she ostensibly shall do in death, then never does it show...’

Live Review: Mothers, Rough Trade East.

Blog: Chris Cohen, Torrey Pine.

First Transmission: Man & The Echo, I Don’t Give a Fuck What You Reckon.