Les nouveaux machins.: Archive

Aug 7th

Owen Pallett - Keep The Dog Quiet (Simon Bookish...

Jul 21st

WAVVES - Convertiible Balloon With his second...

Jul 20th

The Summer Song Dilemma

Hype is a beautiful, yet cruel phenomenon. It can make or break a band in a second, transforming some obscure act into the flavour of the month. Of course, there are some things about hype that I will never understand. Take, for example, the Brits’ obsession for the ‘Christmas Number One’, which is basically the last single to top the charts in a given year. Seriously...

Jun 8th

Arcade Fire - The Suburbs Anyone who knows me is...

May 26th

May 19th

Sleigh Bells - Rachel Sleigh Bell’s...

May 16th

Four Months Summarized In A Few Albums

My second semester in university being over, I thought this would be a great opportunity to look back at some of the albums that I’ve been listening to those four months. Although most major releases (M.I.A, Arcade Fire) have yet to hit the shelves, 2010 has been an incredible year so far, musically speaking. Caribou - Odessa Without a doubt, Caribou’s Odessa is my biggest music...

May 9th

May 7th

Watch

Midnight Juggernauts have a new album entitled The Crystal Axis coming out on May 28th. Their remix-friendly electro-pop promises to be very popular this summer. Back in May 2008, I had the chance to hear Midnight Juggernauts live at Koko in London on one of this venue’s famous Club NME nights. Consequently, despite the fact that I do not consider this band visionary or particularly...

Apr 29th