Posted by: minifigpootles on: 23 December, 2008
Alongside Bon Iver, Fleet Foxes produced one of the best albums in 2008 and they too also did a grand job of, musically, looking both backwards and forwards. The album (and preceeding Sun Giant EP), with its floating melodies, enchanting harmonies and stripped-down production sounds like it could have been recorded in the 1960s and [...]
Posted by: minifigpootles on: 22 December, 2008
Yes, yes, strictly speaking this album is from 2007, but the year that it found its audience was 2008. The album was originally self-released in 2007, but its major label releases came in February and May of this year, so it’s fair to include it, I feel.
The album is helped greatly by its now oft-told [...]
Posted by: minifigpootles on: 2 April, 2008
When bands go away for 10 years, they may as well not bother coming back. Apart from maybe a reunion gig where lots of now slightly-too-old people can gather round them and realise (probably falsely) that they didn’t miss out on much first time around.
Normally this is the case, anyway. Which is why it was [...]
Posted by: minifigpootles on: 20 March, 2008
Normally, when a band disappears for ten years, when they come back the result tends to be less like the Sistine Chapel and more like them breaking into your house and pooping on your bed. Twice. And yes, Stone Roses, we’re all looking at you.
Not Portishead though. Their new album, ingeniusly titled ‘Third’ is probably [...]
