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Review: Wild Nothing, Becoming Real @ Camp Basement, July 26th.
The atmospheric but far from impressive sounding Camp Basement has seen two London debuts by two of our favourite new artists in as many Monday’s. Last week Toro Y Moi stepped up to the play and last night was Wild Nothing‘s turn. Also like Toro Y Moi, on record Wild Nothing is just one, namely Virginia’s Jack Tatum but both DIY artists chose the wise option of bringing a band in tow for their live dates. // more
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Review: Toro Y Moi @ Camp Basement, July 19th.
Music Mule had been looking forward to this gig for months. With Toro Y Moi‘s superb ‘Causers Of This’ album working its way deeper and deeper into our cavernous musical minds, the timing could not have been better for the South Carolinan’s debut UK headline slot at Rockfeedback’s Camp Basement show in London last night. With his growing rep the show was unsurprisingly a sweaty sell out. // more
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Review: Delorean @ The Lexington, July 2nd.
One of the most definable sounds of the last year has been the rise of ‘glo-fi’, that mottled, blur-edged woozy synth-pop so expertly dished up by the likes of Washed Out and Toro Y Moi. Tonight’s band Delorean have taken this template, jumped in a gull-wing-doored time machine and thrown it together with a bit of Cut Copy’s rthythm and a dose of Ibiza synth to give us a sound that is very much summer 2010. // more
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Review: Harlem @ The Lexington, June 11th.
We hadn’t seen Austin Texas’ Harlem since SXSW 2009 where they blew us away with their catchy surf punk. Since then the band has signed to Matador records, released their second album ‘Hippies’ and doubtless eaten some delicious Texas BBQ. We’re not calling them fat, just commenting on the abundance of good BBQ in Texas! // more
