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March 7, 2016 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 740
V/A, Texas-Mexican Border Music Vol. 9 – Canciones de Ayer Part 4 (1977) I guess it was Ry Cooder that hipped me to this sort of stuff, him and one or two others (Los Lobos too I guess)…I love this Border music. Huge sing-songs, such wonderful singing. And these Latino folk standards (I guess we […]Archive
April 7, 2014 by Simon Sweetman
Teebs: Estara
Teebs Estara Brainfeeder/Border Mtendere Mandowa returns – as Teebs – with sophomore album, Estara. And though you may mourn for the adventurousness of his debut, this shows a thoughtful progression from yet another Flying Lotus protégé. Okay, so there’s still plenty to suggest the album’s sound was formed from the wind beneath the wings of […]Archive
December 17, 2013 by Simon Sweetman
Boards of Canada: Tomorrow’s Harvest
Boards of Canada Tomorrow’s Harvest Warp Records Way back in the middle of the year I previewed the new Boards of Canada album and then promptly forgot to follow up with a review. So I listened to the album stream a bunch of times just before the album was released – and I was digging […]Archive
September 26, 2013 by Simon Sweetman
Oneohtrix Point Never: R Plus Seven
Oneohtrix Point Never R Plus Seven Warp Records/Border Daniel Lopatin’s latest as Oneohtrix Point Never won’t surprise people already enticed to his sound – a strange new world of non-dance music or head-music constructed and created from elements that might otherwise make dance music; he’s Aphex Twin as art gallery soundscape curator. This time around […]Archive
September 13, 2013 by Simon Sweetman
Olivier Libaux: Uncovered Queens of the Stone Age
Olivier Libaux Uncovered: Queens of the Stone Age Inertia Records/Border Here the main man from Nouvelle Vague does the decent thing – an act of kindness for humanity – and makes a wee set of silk purses from the sows’ ears Queens of the Stone Age call songs. If you know his trick, his Bossa […]Archive
September 13, 2013 by Simon Sweetman
Jackson And His Computerband: Glow
Jackson And His Computerband Glow Warp/Border Jackson Fourgeaud – as Jackson And His Computerband – made waves some eight years ago, seemingly appearing from nowhere. Then it’s been remix duty until now, a new album. Bit of it are very cool too – a strange retooling of French house music as powerpop, you might even […]Archive
September 11, 2013 by Simon Sweetman
Nightmares on Wax: Feelin’ Good
Nightmares On Wax Feelin’ Good Warp/Border What’s odd about the new Nightmares on Wax album is that even as I think about trying to describe it, on paper it is so much of what I should despise. I mean, Now Is The Time is what I might think of as reggae-inflected big beat, Give Thx […]Archive
August 12, 2013 by Simon Sweetman
Congo Natty: Jungle Revolution
Congo Natty Jungle Revolution Big Dada Records Congo Natty is the latest in a long line of aliases offered up by Michael West – best known perhaps as Rebel MC; best known too for his early group Double Trouble and, after stepping out away from the group, a series of albums in the early 1990s. […]Archive
June 14, 2013 by Simon Sweetman
Tosca: Odeon
Tosca Odeon !K7/Border Richard Dorfmeister (also, of course, of Kruder & Dorfmeister) returns as Tosca (with Rupert Huber) and it’s a long game now for Tosca but they’ve never bettered Suzuki in my opinion. And Odeon doesn’t really come close to the class of that but if you’re (still) the sort to want to look […]Archive
April 4, 2013 by Simon Sweetman
Etta James: Etta Is Betta Than Evvah!
Etta James Etta Is Betta Than Evvah! Ace/Border This reissue sees the first CD release of Etta James’ final album for Chess. Her time on the label was one of tumult, her personal life – and addictions – spiralling out of control. But there was some incredible music. It’s great what time can do – […]Archive
April 1, 2013 by Simon Sweetman