May 2, 2011 | Hotels Reviews, Reviews
Excerpt: “With their third release Seattle quintet Hotels are once again casting trembling post-rock and surf guitar lines across a synth-driven new wave backdrop. It’ an effective fusion, in which sombre riffs cut through tinkling keys and synthesiser or, in...
May 2, 2011 | Hotels Reviews, Reviews
Excerpt: “A concept album of sorts from the Seattle band with a madly ambitious premise, too good not to quote from the press blurb. The plot concerns a “secret agent, his former mentor and current arch-nemesis, and a nefarious prince’s plan to...
May 2, 2011 | Hotels Reviews, Reviews
Excerpt: “Two years after their well deserved critically acclaimed sophomore album Where Hearts Go Broke the Seattle-based sci-fi pop band Hotels releases their third album; On The Casino Floor. A seven track concept album that moves their cinematic sound close...
May 2, 2011 | Reviews, Slow Dancing Society Reviews
Excerpt: “Sodium gas lights cause less light pollution but cast an orange pall over the urban spaces they most commonly illuminate. They began to be installed, particulary along highways, in the 1970s. Ultimately, this is album is one great big love letter, as...
May 2, 2011 | Antonymes Reviews, Reviews
Excerpt: “Ian Hazeldine, who records under the alias Antonymes, is as fascinating and unconventional as you can find. Start with the recent Fluid Radio interview: Hazeldine is a graphic designer, photographer and filmmaker, responsible for the ravishing images...
May 2, 2011 | Antonymes Reviews, Reviews
Excerpt: “Antonymes is Ian M. Hazeldine – designer, photographer, conceptualist and musician. He’s “making music from the wilds of North Wales, a very strange, fantastic, ultimately unreal place of mountains, streams, woods, villages and...
