Author: manvmusic
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What makes Radiohead’s “In Rainbows” so great?
Widely regarded as the bands best, In Rainbows defies all odds in the creation of an achingly beautifully album. But why do many see it as the best? If you want to get a good understanding of how his album was regarded, you needn’t look further than its numbers in sales. A true personification of…
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Pop Punk’s Not Dead: why people have a problem with it…
Pop Punk’s a pleasure. A guilty pleasure. I’m an advocate for pop-punk. Like a big slice of chocolate cake from the fridge in the middle of the night, pop-punk is my guilty pleasure. No matter how simplicity cheesy it may be, you can’t argue how heinously addictive it is. Fast and simple chord patterns, frantic…
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Fever Ray: “Radical Romantics” Album Review – a plunging into the unknown
BEST IN NEW MUSIC A shape-shifting electronic pop trope of icy atmosphere bent out of shape from Karin Dreijer – a wanderer lusting for unrequited love. Listen to Fever Ray and Plunge into the unknown. A dark, icy embrace at times. A warm fire-flirt touch to many. The promiscuous half of sibling duo The Knife…
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The Angles – “The Angles” album review – NYC collective bring glow to contemplative power-pop
You’d be surprised to know that Brooklyn-based jangly-pop outfit of The Angles is just solely written by one man. That man goes by the name Ashwin Prasanna, who has quite a year. Forming a composite site of a distinguished live precedent in New York, he’s taking his work to new angles, so to speak. Cringe…
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slowthai: UGLY album review – frenetic third from the vexed British artist
“People have told me I wasn’t good enough to do this.” What his recent project shows, is the true contrasting argument to this very statement. A compartmentalisation of agony and ecstasy, Tyron Frampton (coined as slowthai for his slow, slurred speech) captures an artful self-revelation and a complete purity to blind self-righteousness on unravelling UGLY.…
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