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Who The Hell Are… Silk Flowers?

By |March 4th, 2011|Categories: Features, Who the Hell Are|Tags: , , , , , |

Dial back to the summer of 2010 having spent the afternoon hanging out with electro-be-spectacle Amanda Warner aka MNDR, we get a tweet from her inviting us to come down to Camp Basement in Old Street to watch synth experimentalists Silk Flowers, a Brooklyn three-piece that she’d recently produced an album for. Standing facing each other in a semi-circle surrounded by banks of synths, the band were undoubtedly not of this planet, but one Krautrock based in nature, appearing wholly entranced in their own music which veered from instrumental collages to deadpan delivered pop.

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Friendly Fires – Interview with Edd Gibson & Ed Macfarlane (Static, 2009)

By |August 17th, 2009|Categories: Interviews|Tags: , , , , , , |

The friendly folks from indie-dance sensations Friendly Fires stroll into Static's studio to talk the good talk about their new single "Kiss of Life", the Mercury music prize and more -- "It’s good to kind of feed off the energy of the crowd: suck them like vampires."

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Beach House – London – 2 December 2008

By |December 3rd, 2008|Categories: Live Reviews|Tags: , , , , , , |

Beach House Cargo, London 2nd December 2008 Roughly a year since their last headline show at the Water Rat in Kings Cross, Baltimore’s Beach House have doubled their output and returned to London on the tail end

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The Earthmen – Whoever’s Been Using This Bed

By |July 8th, 2008|Categories: Features, Secret History of Australian Music|Tags: , , , , , |

It was the Johnny Marr guitar flourishes at the start that first sucked me in. Here is the moment when a band who've been doggedly plying their guitar pop trade since the early 90s actually

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