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Full of Shite. The Knife, Roundhouse.

…uch a deaf ear to an audience that has stuck by them so adamantly through such rocky patches and impregnable recordings. I’m not asking for hits here – I’ve all but abandoned hope of ever hearing Like A Pen played live, and whatever their reasoning may be for renouncing what is, without question, their masterwork I can blindly sympathise with. But what I find truly disdainful, and distinctly tedious is that they should compose a show…So on & so forth…

Q&A: Txistus, Tabors and Txalapartas at the Ready, Crystal Fighters.

…e you had time to envisage how the band will shape up, at least aesthetically, in the future? Gilbert: Of course we enjoy the music we make, but there’s a massive part of us that wants others to enjoy it so when playing live, we try and imagine what will best connect with our audience and what will portray us in the best possible way so in the past, when playing a certain type of show, it was a case of putting across our more theatrical sid…So on & so forth…

Dots & Dashes’ Shows of 2012.

Over the course of this past year, we’ve upped the impetus placed upon live happenings and more significantly on those situated in and around London: nights on end spent out and about have become increasingly exhausting, as we strive to conjure an increasingly exhaustive coverage. Consequently we can only hope these are wearying steps in the right direction as, at least from a subjective perspective, witnessing your revered artists recite…So on & so forth…

Interview: Ambling the Overgrown Path, Chris Cohen.

…;ve read several critiquing Overgrown Path, and there’s a certain term which so often seems to crop up. How profoundly does Cohen’s search engine trawl stoop, and what would that one word be? “I read all the reviews, but I don’t know what the one word would be to describe the record…” “Psych, or psychedelia” I propose. “Well, that can mean a lot of different things. I don’t have a proble…So on & so forth…

Interview: Refractions of Images Du Futur, Suuns.

…thing, you know? So that takes the pressure off when we’re coming to put together the records. You’ll have stronger numbers, and less whatever – it’s like anything – but it doesn’t make, like, reading reviews problematic. You’re still listening to it, and judging it for what it is.” And what this one is, ultimately, is a further statement of pioneering intent and appositely futuristic propulsion from an hermit…So on & so forth…

Interview: Stick Up For Yourself, Son. Yeasayer.

…ntrinsically detrimental, though, to that classic way of making albums. Making albums is fun – I really enjoy it. So on & so forth…

I’ll Be Your Mirror 2013.

It’s with a faint sense of trepidation we hike forever upward toward Alexandra Palace, not least as the sweltering trudge seemingly represents the metaphoric arrival of festival season which begins in earnest in but a few short weeks’ time. It’s the time of the season for early starts and later nights, lager glugged from the moment morning stumbles into afternoon as liver, lobes and inner ears quiver as one. Which painfully rem…So on & so forth…

Everything Looks Perfect From Far Away. The Postal Service, O2 Academy Brixton.

…gs in the process. Identikit setlists guide them through each evening, and there’s an eerie sense of the show this time being phoned in with a greater reliability than most Royal Mail shipments. This is the long-awaited live return of The Postal Service though to paraphrase a line from a certain number to come, everything seemed perfect from far away. Gibbard, quite unquestionably, has endured some pretty turbulent times of late: he split f…So on & so forth…

Interview: Becoming One, Blue Hawaii.

…; We don’t, instead turning to the hottest of contemporary topics: So on & so forth…

Gone, Done. Jónsi, Go Live.

The past twelve months for Sigur Rós head honcho Jónsi have been spectacular to witness from outside of the whirlwind upon which the unfathomably gifted multi-instrumentalist has sped around more continents than he’s ever performed instores. From within it must have been all but ephemeral. Flicking through the elaborate pages of the accompanying hardback to Go Live, the most comprehensive live LP ever to have been chronicled over a mere do…So on & so forth…