Jun 5, 2008 | Colour Kane Reviews, Reviews
Excerpt: “Key to Colour Kane’s identity is the way in which they incorporate electronic elements into their music. ‘Eye Drops’ and ‘Astonish’ modernise the Cocteaus template with heavy beats running alongside the customary myriad of guitar effects whereas...
May 28, 2008 | Reviews, The Slow Beings Reviews
Excerpt: “the toughest music I’ve heard from the Hidden Shoal label so far… In ‘I Waste The Sea”s rear window there’s both grunge (Nirvana) and Britpop (Blur), and maybe also traces from New Zealand’s 1980s Kiwi pop scene....
May 13, 2008 | Arc Lab Reviews, Reviews
“Medard Fischer’s third Arc Lab album ranges so widely, it invites descriptors such as “genre-defying” or, perhaps most appropriately, “genre-transcending.” Some common threads do run throughout, however, one in particular being the material’s...
May 13, 2008 | Arc Lab Reviews, Reviews
“Though Arc Lab’s 2007 release “No Spectre” displayed potent levels of production prowess, the emotional aspects one has come to expect from an n5MD release didn’t quite reach the same mark. On his second outing for the Californian imprint, Torontonian Medard...
May 13, 2008 | Arc Lab Reviews, Reviews
“Medard Fischer was initially motivated by architecture to begin the Arc Lab project and wrote songs as “musings on the interplay between structurally defined space and musical expression,” by his own admission. On Fischer’s third full-length,...
