New releases - 30th January
Fair Ohs – Salt Flats
X-Ray Recordings
Salt Flats - Fair Ohs by X-RAY RECORDINGS
OK, You're driving through the Sinai and you come across a small rave where Paul Simon, Brian Eno, a group of African dancing girls and some old, pipe smoking British explorer are all partying it up in a Bedouin tent. This Fair Ohs record is more awesome than that. 4.5/5
DH
Zeds Dead – Adrenaline EP
Inspected
Zeds Dead - Adrenaline EP by zedsdead
Zeds Dead bring the swagger with this new EP. Adrenaline is right. It's high octane, low end, bowel-worrying dubstep that makes your heart race and your face look a bit weird. Zeds Dead go massive in a bass sense - as we've come to expect from the Canadian duo - but they look at the genre askance.
Whether it's through the lens of the military tattoo of title track 'Adrenalin', or the breakbeat of 'Hit Me', it's dubstep re-imagined. These are pure club bangers. 3.8/5
LC
Clock Opera – Once and for All
Moshi Moshi
Once And For All (2012 album version) by clockopera
Gosh, this feels preachier than Baz Luhrman telling me to wear sun screen. And I told him to screw it. Clock Opera are going for inspirational here but in trying to sum up the meaning of life in four minutes they fail miserably, hurtling themselves into generic Radio 1 fodder saved only by the buoyancy of a video about old people falling in love.
Did Ellie Goulding do a cover of this? It's hard to care. 2/5
NK
The Big Pink – Hit the Ground (Superman)
4AD
The Big Pink - "Hit The Ground (Superman)" by TheNJUnderground
What the hell? The Big Pink, who used to be British version of Health, are now they’re writing jaunty loved up pop songs that you can imagine Olly Murs prancing around to when he was on X-Factor? Did I miss something?
The word on the street is that there’s a crisis in guitar music at the moment, and when you see good bands go this wrong, you can sort of see why. 2/5
DH
Feeder – Borders
Big Teeth
Wait for it.......here it comes.......IT'S GOT A CD PLA......oh, that's not this one? I don't think Feeder will be gaining any new fans with this, the musical equivalent of a Debenhams shop window.
Not that I've got anything against Feeder, beige deserves its place in the packet of crayons just the same as any other colour, but it was always the one left over and still sharp once you'd used up all the others. The sharp crayon is not a good look. 2/5
TA
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