The Beast Within
Ratatat – Shempi In which the true horror of Abba is revealed by turning their eyes and mouths upside down.
01.10.08.
Ratatat – Shempi In which the true horror of Abba is revealed by turning their eyes and mouths upside down.
01.10.08.
Passion Pit – Sleepyhead In which Michael Angelakos is confined to a spinning cube, like an ecstatic indie version of General Zod.
01.10.08.
The Big Pink – Too Young To Love In which it turns out a bird in the hand is worth two dudes in a dark orgy.
01.10.08.
We Have Band – Oh! In which Darren Bancroft eats his (wehave)bandmates. We have love for We Have Band. They have single out 24/11. We Have dark and dubby Micachu remix. They have track on just-released Kitsune 6 comp. We have enjoyed. They have awesome mix on Allez Allez. We have run joke into ground. [...]
01.10.08.
Stricken City – Lost Art In which jumpsuit fan Rebekah Raa enthusiastically paints herself out of the picture.
01.10.08.
(Photo credit: FADER)Here at Pinglewood we are modest people, but then we have much to be modest about. Esau Mwamwaya and Radioclit are awesome people and as such have crowned themselves, The Very Best. Their forthcoming album- which contains contributions from Vampire Weekend, Santogold, BLK JKS, Ruby Suns and Marina from Bonde Do Role- sounds [...]
01.10.08.
Wouldn’t it be great if Julian Casablancas and James Murphy had met in 80s New York and become inseperable buddies, dragging each other in and out of CBGBs and Studio 54 before sitting down to read William Blake and discuss the human condition? Imagine the infectious, literate, soul-addled music they might make. Now listen to [...]
01.10.08.
It must be confusing being Joe Smooth’s Promised Land. One minute you’re a soulful house classic, then Findlay Brown comes along and transforms you into a blissful campfire fairytale. Just as your adjusting to your folky new surroundings some guy called Pilooski turns up and sends you back into the club. But not that happy [...]
01.10.08.
It’s great that car companies are giving away amazing compilations by heroic underground labels like Fool’s Gold, but we wish brands would start embedding cardboard records in the side of breakfast cereal boxes again. This Rusko remix would sound even more amazing if we’d cut it off a Cheerios box because then we could eat [...]
01.10.08.