It feels ridiculous to say it now, but early reports concerning the debut (and presumably sole) album by Neon Neon could easily have suggested a project ready to deliver horrific results. Gruff Rhys has produced two wonderful solo LPs over the past decade, proof that he is at his best when in control instead of a co-pilot; Super Furry Animals are a band for which democracy does not work, seeing as...
via Mitchell Stirling @ Acclaimed Music Forum Uncut Magazine - Top 50 Albums of 2009 1. Animal Collective – Merriweather Post Pavilion 2. Super Furry Animals – Dark Days/Light Years 3. Dirty Projectors – Bitte Orca 4. Bob Dylan – Together Through Life 5. Wild Beasts – Two Dancers 6. XX – The XX 7. Wilco – Wilco (The Album) 8. Grizzly Bear – Veckatimest...
NME ‘s Top 100 Albums of the Decade : 1. The Strokes – Is This It 2. The Libertines – Up the Bracket 3. Primal Scream – xtrmntr 4. Arctic Monkeys – Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not 5. Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Fever to Tell 6. PJ Harvey – Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea 7. Arcade Fire – Funeral 8. Interpol – Turn On...
A 2 minute slice of SFA pop rock ... just before they play a "Best of" Creation set featuring their first 3 albums at the Coal Exchange tomorrow night.Lovely aye
Look look look, we've all had a drink or in some cases a double day and night nurse.....we can argue all day about the various merits of all the genres of comedy, but I'll tell you this and I'll tell you no lie; I never want to live in a world were dressing up in furry animal costumes isn't funny. The moment those barmy Army lads in Pink Panther and Sylvester outfits drinking their beer through the...
The folks over at Baeblemusic have posted a full concert from Super Furry Animals that was filmed in New York this past September. I don’t think I’ve ever lost interest in a band as quickly as I did with Super Furry Animals – loved everything they did up to and including Rings Around The World, but [...]
The Strokes' 2001 debut album 'Is This It' has been called 'Album of the Decade' by NME. The top 50 can be seen by clicking read more. Check back soon to Alter The Press! where will be giving our Top 25 albums of the decade. 1. The Strokes – 'Is This It' 2. The Libertines – 'Up The Bracket' 3. Primal Scream – 'XTRMNTR' 4. Arctic Monkeys – 'Whatever People Say I Am, That's What...
Bowerbirds play a tiny desk concert at NPR Music. The Guardian profiles comics legend Osamu Tezuka and his creation, Astro Boy. Tezuka's comics look outward to the world, too: his influences are decisively international. Individual frames, as McCarthy points out,...
Pitchfork may have usurped everyone with their best-of-the-decade list, but the floodgates are open now and many other publications are printing their nominations. Today (Nov. 17), the NME has produced a list of the albums they consider to be the best of the decade, and there are very few surprises. The paper was one of the earliest champions of the Strokes when they emerged at the beginning of the...
I'd agree with most of the choices, maybe not the order. 1. The Strokes - Is This It 2. The Libertines - Up the Bracket 3. Primal Scream - xtrmntr 4. Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not 5. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Fever to Tell 6. PJ Harvey - Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea 7. Arcade Fire - Funeral 8. Interpol - Turn On the Bright Lights 9. The Streets - Original Pirate...
The NME has published its 50 Greatest Albums of the 2000s. It's such a boring, predictable list. Would any of my readers care to better it? I might give this some thought over the next few days. To make things easier, shall we say Top Ten, rather than 50, in the comments box below? Alright then. Here's the NME list 1. The Strokes - Is This It 2. The Libertines - Up The Bracket 3. Primal Scream - xtrmntr...
Welsh electronica wizard Jakokoyak - aka Rhys Edwards - clearly doesn’t have a particularly strong work ethic if his sparse discography is anything to go by. It’s been six years since his 2003 Welsh language debut album Am Cyfan Dy Pethau Prydferth (no, I have no idea what it means), which curiously picked up more critical plaudits in Japan than anywhere in the UK outside Wales, courtesy...
This is not the only album closing, techno/rock epic of Super Furry Animals’ career. Come to think of it, it’s very much an older, subtler version of The Man Don’t Give A Fuck in tone. It’s the one that integrates the two to most astounding effect, though, and makes the most cutting use of very few words indeed. It takes intriguing new turns at every stage, throwing everything...
“Separado! follows Gruff’s journey through the Welsh community in Patagonia in search of a long-lost relative who happened to be a 1970s Argentine pop star (who sang in Welsh). In an insightful piece in the Guardian, we learn that in the film, Rhys plays music for a gathering of senior citizens while wearing a red Power Rangers-style helmet. According to the Guardian, there is also “a...
While Snow Patrol recently released their ‘Up To Now’ best of album, members Gary Lightbody and Tom Simpson also unveiled their ‘Late Night Tales’ compilation album. The mix album features music from, TV on the Radio, Super Furry Animals, Arthur Russell, A Tribe Called Quest, as well as Snow Patrol’s cover of the INXS [...]
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