Archives for the ‘Avant Garde/Noise’ Category

Young Widows – Settle Down City

By Andrew Duncan • Mar 18th, 2010 • Category: Avant Garde/Noise, Categories, Greatest Album In The Universe

ZapTown goes searching for the Greatest Album in the Universe. Could Settle Down City by the Young Widows be that album?



Clipd Beaks – To Realize (Music Review)

By Yuri Duncan • Mar 4th, 2010 • Category: Avant Garde/Noise, Reviews

Rating: 4.5 out of 5
This is certainly the kind of music your parents will never understand, and that many of you won’t like. For some, however, this is brilliant fucking music.

 
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Greg Harwood – Breathe and Innocent Crimes Soundtrack (Music Review)

By Andrew Duncan • Feb 5th, 2010 • Category: Avant Garde/Noise, Instrumental, Reviews

Rating: 3.5 out of 5
Greg Harwood is no stranger to the short film circuit. Expelling countless soundtracks to the genre, as well as documentary and now a growing stack of credits to feature films, his work as an independent composer continually becomes more popular in the UK and less a mere hobby.



Aqui – The First Trip Out

By Andrew Duncan • Feb 13th, 2009 • Category: Avant Garde/Noise, Categories, Reviews

There is a degree of poetic justice that comes from the song “Please Send Love.” It’s a song that defines a post-modern sexual revolution, like art house sterility in a dirty mid-town environment.



Xiu Xiu – Knife Play

By Andrew Duncan • Nov 18th, 2008 • Category: Avant Garde/Noise, Categories, Electronic, Reviews

Listening to Knife Play is like walking into a room and staring down a triple homicide. You stand there, mouth agape, eyes wide as does, and the shock of what you are experiencing will soon enough sink in.