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Gang Of Four @ Le Trabendo, Paris 18.03.11
by Cheri Amour Le Trabendo is somewhat of a rockers’ haunt here in Paris. Previous bands I have seen perform up here in the modern surroundings of Parc de la Villette include Pulled Apart By Horses...
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No Age @ Fondation Cartier, Paris 11.04.11
by Cheri Amour There’s no need for my Paris Pratique tonight. I am met with the dense wall of noise emitting from LA two-piece No Age as soon as I so much as head down the Boulevard towards Fondation...
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Yelle – Safari Disco Club (Barclay)
by Cheri Amour I love Yelle. I love them, not only for their quirky pop stylings and the fact that they have worked with my beloved Katy Perry (no, really). Nor simply because they are a formidable...
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Metronomy + Django Django @ La Cigale, Paris, 04.05.11
by Cheri Amour Tonight’s openers Django Django and their kooky wardrobe choices should be your new art school crush: dressed up like Thee Mighty Boosh characters The Piper Twins, aka The Hitcher’s...
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REVIEWED INTERNATIONALLY: Beastie Boys – Hot Sauce Committee Part Two (Capitol)
by Cheri Amour In their hazy youth, the Beastie Boys’ sound was a potent brew of party-based spats showcased masterfully in their ’86 release, Licensed To Ill which became the first rap album to make...
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Thao & Mirah – Thao & Mirah (kill rock stars)
by Cheri Amour Thao & Mirah are somewhat of a supergroup (in indie-folk terms rather than aging rockers hungry for a festival slot). Both are respected solo artists in their own right. Mirah is a...
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Tearist – Living: 2009-Present (Thin Wrist)
by Cheri Amour Plainly speaking, I don’t think that I am averse to live albums. I own a few and hey, some of the tracks that I may have otherwise dismissed on the recorded product have come to life in...
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Tom Vek – Leisure Seizure (Downtown)
by Cheri Amour “I know I’m wasting precious time but I’ll take it in my stride,” were some of the last words we heard from Tom Vek in his track ‘I Ain’t Saying My Goodbyes’. The self-taught...
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Emmy The Great – Virtue (Close Harbour)
By Cheri Amour Frank Turner was recently quoted as saying that “Rock’n’roll was a dumbed-down art form”, suggesting that the genre is pretty much all about getting drunk, kissing pretty girls and...
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Dum Dum Girls – Only In Dreams (Sub Pop)
By Cheri Amour In her hazy days of, what one can only imagine was, singing into the mirror with comb to lips, LA singer songwriter Kristen Gundred (nom de plume Dee Dee) made a vow to only work with...
View ArticleLove Of Diagrams – Blast (Bedroom Suck Records)
As I sit down to write this, I am acutely aware that I’m looking at one of Collapse Board’s own: Melbourne’s offspring, Love of Diagrams who – since the early noughties – have cemented their position...
View ArticleThe Nightingales – Mind Over Matter (Louder Than War)
“For goodness sake, there’s been a chunk of time”, calls out Nightingales maestro Robert Lloyd seconds into the jittering opener of the same name. But in reality, there really hasn’t been at all. 2012...
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Speedy Ortiz – Foil Deer (Stop Start)
Around about this time last year, the internet was busy picking pixels out of Facebook’s COO Sheryl Sandberg’s Ban Bossy campaign: those of us empowered by the sentiment and those of us who consider it...
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