Slowing Time Again

Fuzzy Lights have just released a new digital only single from their excellent 2010 LP ‘Twin Feathers‘. ‘Slowing Time’ is undoubtedly one of their songs which most reminds me of Aussie band the Paradise Motel. In some ways it’s a typical Fuzzy Lights song, shifting from quiet to loud in a few bars. But whereas…

Manic Pop Thrills meets Alastair Reynolds Part 1 – Cloudcast by manicpopthrills

Welcome to the first proper podcast of 2011. You can’t have failed to notice the novels that litter the posts of this blog, mainly SF novels at that. This may have been a little frustrating for the people who come here for the music but I suppose it’s just an illustration of the selfish nature…

Isolation

I confess that I’ve found it difficult to make time for reading recently. Which partly explains why it seems to have taken me weeks to read ‘The Windup Girl’ the debut novel by Paolo Bacigalupi. ‘The Windup Girl’ is speculative SF in that much of the technology is either here today or very close to…

Set The Angels Free

The idea of a Thurston Moore acoustic album still seems to be a surprise to some people. And to some extent you can understand why given that Thurston has spent much of his musical career exploring noise to varying degrees. Yet, there’s been plenty of evidence recently to identify this as a natural progression –…

Burns Unit Back

Slightly late with this news (sic) but the Burns Unit are basking in the plaudits following a successful outing on Later with Jools Holland the other night. We were slightly curious as to what they were going to play but it makes sense to have played a couple of songs from the LP rather than…

Funny Birds

Mercury Rev / Chameleons Vox – Queen’s Hall, Edinburgh – 19th May 2011 Mercury Rev have never followed a predictable course as the album at the heart of this tour illustrates. It’s sometimes hard to remember now but ‘Deserter’s Songs’ was very much seen as a last throw of the dice by the band. Yet…