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Anchorsong has been sitting in my too hard basket for a few months while I decided if I want to review the act or pass it on to my co-contributer. After a not very inspiring day at work I sat and had another listen to this act. I’ve decided that Anchorsong isn’t nearly as hard [...]

Jools is currently hard at work on another project so I get to do today’s piece. And we are going to talk about guitars and a guitarist by the name of Rhys Chatham and the recently re-released “Guitar Trio“. It comes in at around eight minutes long, and helped to establish Chatham’s manifesto of bringing [...]

Tunng fired up in 2003 by Mike Lindsay and Sam Genders, as a duo. On their latest album they have expanded into a six-piece, having added instruments like steel-strung harp and hammered dulcimer (a instrument that I always find interesting) to their sound and drummer Ashley Bates, who handles some of the guitar duties. “Tales [...]

Múm are from Iceland, and after reading  Jeremy Clarkson’s “Motorworld” book I had decided it sounded a really interesting place to go to, now I have found a second reason… Hallo. We are múm and thats who we are, (pronounced “miooyyuujm”). And now our new album is out and Go Go Smear The Poison Ivy [...]

Cicada is the brainchild of Judson Cowan. When I found the site a few months back I was really taken with what was then his latest album “Conformatigmatic“. It is a rather interesting collection of electronic pop with serious punk undertones. The one that I found myself listening to frequently is the track titled “Optimus [...]

Amon Tobin started making music back in the 90′s, the track I chose for today is “Reanimator” from his 1998 album “Permutation”. Head over to the MySpace site at www.myspace.com/tobinamon scroll down a bit inr the music display and you should find it there. OK it’s not very Chill but it is very good. Tobin [...]

“Two Loons for Tea“. Isn’t that just a great name for a band? And even better there is a lot more to these guys than just a great name. A quick listen to the tunes available at either two loons for tea or www.myspace.com/twoloonsfortea and you find a great voice, really interesting melodies, left of [...]