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HEAR is the enema your iTunes needs. Bringing you the most thought-provoking and up-to-date music reviews this side of Lester Bangs, HEAR sifts through the ever growing mountain of press releases and promos to only feature albums, EPs, LPs and mixes that we want to, not that we have to. Also, we try and make things make sense in 200 words or less so that you can just listen to the music.
The Besnard Lakes, 'Are The Roaring Night'
Sometimes I wish I didn't have to tell you about music via a flashing computer screen.
I wish I could just play you something at a party. Or make you a mix CD. Some things are better if you find them out by accident, or from a friend. The Besnard Lakes have too much personality for the impersonality of a computer screen.
Houlette, 'Bless Bless'
Houlette is the sugar cube in your Stockholm Blend tea. Their French-pop, country-esque folk minimalism reminds you of better times, of simpler times when salt came iodised and men rode horses.
Bless Bless (which translates to ‘farewell' in Icelandic) is the band's debut album, following the successes of their precursor releases.
Spoon, 'Transference'
The fact that this is the first self-produced Spoon album was a surprise to me. They've always been so ridiculously full of sound-purpose and sound-awareness. As you might expect, it sounds just as good as anything that they might pay some dude with a massive beard and a concerned look on his face to record.
Kitchens Floor, Self Titled 7"
Brisbane's very own band of doomed youth takes timeout from dwelling in apathy and distressing furrow-browed mothers to deliver a three-song 7" record. Their first foray into vinyl sees Kitchen's Floor continue to carve out dank and mould-ridden outsider pop with a raw, primitive temperament.
John Waters interview
American auteur John Waters' early films involved overweight drag queens eating fresh dog poop, and singing anuses. His recent works include Tony Award winning Broadway musicals and Hollywood A-list stars. In John's one-man show, This Filthy World, he explains his unbelievable career trajectory in his inimitable, frank, sardonic, style.
Four Tet, There is Love in You
Kieran Hebden has had a good time of it just lately. The guitarist turned much-feted producer and DJ has continued along the rosy path of critical adoration, and he's done so by consistently straying from his comfort zone. Along the way, he has shed the long-standing ‘folktronica' tag that dogged his early Four Tet and effectively reinvented himself.
Golden Staph Cassette Tape
For those who found a cassette walkman to be an item of private humiliation at the dawn of the Discman, never fear because Golden Staph are here. Resurrecting an all but obsolete technological artefact in magnetic tape, the lightning bolt band of do-it-yourself Perth luddites are one of many independents snubbing the digital era in favour of good old-fashioned tangibility.
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