Reviews

Tracks Of The Week, 21.07.14

Whilst Lucky Elephant are a pretty international collective, new single ‘Old Kent Road’ focuses on the dying working class culture of South East London. Perhaps inspired by keyboardist Sam Johnson’s roots in Deptford, the single forms part of Lucky Elephant’s…

Clean Bandit LIVE @ Somerset House 19.07.14

“So you think electronic music is boring? You think it’s stupid? You think it’s repetitive? Well, it is repetitive”  No, not the words of this reviewer, but the smug opening line from Clean Bandit’s breakthrough single ‘Mozart’s House’; a house…

Little Dragon LIVE @ Somerset House 20.07.14

Last night Little Dragon provided the final musical escapade of Somerset House’s Summer Series, and it certainly felt like summer was a somewhat edging away from us. You know what they expected when they planned the event, a beautiful summer…

Sleaford Mods LIVE @ The Lexington, London 18.07.14

Rating: This sold out gig would appear to be the antithesis of everything this duo stand for. Hipsters with sleeve tattoos, wispy beards destined to be on the cutting room floor by Christmas, imbibers of nothing but craft ale. However,…

ALBUM REVIEW: Jungle – ‘Jungle’

Rating: Once only known as the secretive duo of ‘J’ and ‘T’, it took a while for Jungle’s true identity to be revealed. Being unknown at the beginning is becoming the in-thing to do; it’s worked for Superfood and now…

TEEN – LIVE @ The Hope, Brighton, 18.07.14

Rating: The Ronettes. The Shangri-Las. Heart. The Bangles. The Breeders. Haim. From the sixties to the present day, the sister act remains a staple motif in pop music. Brooklyn quartet TEEN (capped up to boost search engine optimisation, techies) boasts…

Chvrches LIVE @ Somerset House 17.7.14

Rating: When a ticket tout offered the lead singer of Scottish electro three piece Chvrches, Lauren Mayberry, a ticket to go and see ‘The Churches’ play at London’s iconic Somerset House as she made her way to perform alongside bandmates…

Klaxons vs Clean Bandit LIVE @ Oslo, Hackney 16.07.14

Presented by Xfm’s Jo Good, the final of the DieselOnTour mix competition took place at Oslo, Hackney and having beaten off competition from the likes of Benga, Waze and Odyssey and Duke Dumont, Klaxons (represented by Jamie Reynolds) and Clean Bandit (represented by Neil Amin-Smith) took to the decks…

TRACK REVIEW: Get Hot ‘Drugs’

This is a completely fubar mix of ambient fuzz, Hefti guitar, weapons grade snark, and everything else inbetween.  The first collaboration between electronic underworld figures FTSE and Jakwob weighs in at a giddy 2:35, and punches you in the face…