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Have you been watching… Stewart Lee’s Comedy Vehicle? - March 2014 The Guardian - By Julia Raeside - March 20th, 2014
If you have been watching this weekly half hour of droll polemic (now in its third glorious series), you’re either a dedicated fan of the standup comedian Stewart Lee or you hate his smug, sing-song delivery and smirking repetition and you just enjoy being angry. There seldom seems to be a middle ground where Lee’s…
Belfi/Grubbs/Pilia – Dust & Mirrors - March 2014 March 17th, 2014
Italian electro-acoustic composer Andrea Belfi once recorded himself shaking the contents of a house. His countryman Stefano Pilia played punk before discovering drones. Kentucky’s David Grubbs blasted underage Eighties hardcore with Squirrelbait and is now a professorial presence on the experimental scene. Dust & Mirrors combines tonal minimalist repetition with hanging cadences of back-porch guitar…
Various Artists – Wayfaring Strangers : Darkscorch Canticles - March 2014 March 17th, 2014
You don’t need this record. No-one needs this record. These sixteen low-fidelity self-released tracks by ’70s American teens in thrall to Sabbath, Zeppelin, Tolkein, and weed are a desperate attempt to tickle the palettes of jaded hipster know-alls, and Numero Uno records knows it. And yet, and yet… the school doodle satanic imagery, basement boogie…