Reviews | AAA Music - Part 254
Two Spot Gobi – The Sun Will Rise
6 February 2011 | aaamusicThere is a small smattering of euphoria in Two Spot Gobi’s material. In fact, “small” is an understatement. Blending shining-eyed stadium attitudes with dance frills and easy jazz, the instantly accessible indie pop on their five-track release ‘The Sun … Read More
Cults – Go Outside
6 February 2011 | aaamusicUp and coming in the American music scene, New York duo Cults release their first UK single Go Outside this month. Even coming from a city where tens (if not hundreds) of great musical acts are emerging all the … Read More
Sugarland – The Incredible Machine
6 February 2011 | aaamusic‘The Incredible Machine’ is Sugarland’s fourth studio album and demonstrates a self-described “creative rebirth” – a rebirth which sees the American duo audaciously jump from one mainstream genre of music us Brits don’t give a damn about to another … Read More
Sea Of Bees – Songs for the Ravens
6 February 2011 | aaamusicSongs for the Ravens is the charming debut release from Californian singer and multi-instrumentalist Julie Ann Baenziger, a.k.a. Sea of Bees. The record provides listeners with an enchanting brand of atmospheric indie-folk that forms a clean and polished sound, … Read More
Chairman Kato – Wildfire
6 February 2011 | aaamusicChairman Kato is definitely an experimenter, exploring a little known genre defined “chubstep”, a kind of dubstep with dirty and fat beats. Wildfire, his 5-track EP, focuses on his research of a sound that attempt to turn into melodies … Read More
MEN – Talk About Body
2 February 2011 | aaamusicI was really looking forward to this release. I love Le Tigre albums, I danced to their tracks so many times and their music will be part of my life forever, as the soundtrack of my early years in … Read More
Pushking – The World As We Love It
1 February 2011 | aaamusicA real dream team joined the Russian band Pushking to record their new album titled “The World As We Love It”. The list of guest star is impressive: from Alice Cooper and Billy F. Gibbons (ZZ TOP) passing through … Read More
Matthew Chapman – Trainsong: Guitar Compositions 1967 – 2010
1 February 2011 | aaamusicRight, I’m not going to lie to you, dear reader. When I read the description for this, I was worried. I was about to listen to an entire album, nay, an entire double album, entirely consisting of folk and … Read More
Jones Street Station – The Understanding
1 February 2011 | aaamusicIt’s difficult to write carefree, lo-fi folk pop without sounding like a bunch of stoned sixth-formers with too much time on their hands, but Jones Street Station seem to have it down pretty damn perfectly. The song starts out … Read More
Super Distortion – Resonating World
1 February 2011 | aaamusicHmm. I’ve heard a good few confusing records in my time. Enter Shikari’s debut, Icky Thump by The White Stripes, anything by Dillinger Escape Plan, but this… occupies a space entirely on it’s own when it comes to oddness, … Read More
