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Boards Of Canada Say They’re Making A New Album In As Few Words As Possible

March 14th, 2012 By Mof Gimmers

Hey geeds! You like Boards of Canada right? You can’t ever adequately tell anyone quite why because they’re really samey and much copied and not especially catchy… but… they’re made of magic aren’t they? And they’re all secretive, reclusive and cultish, right?

Well,?Boards of Canada have confirmed that they are working on a new studio album.

This is news coming straight from the band themselves who, surprisingly, have taken to social networking sites to… well… say very little as usual. However, the few words are positive and promise a new LP. Let us explain.

Festival Review – Wireless 2011

August 5th, 2012 By Si Sharp

Hyde Park?s a funny old place, what with it seeming to have two festivals sharing the same field. And as we walked in, there was a Radio 1 style pop-event going on. Ke$ha was on stage. She is profoundly irritating. Do we really need to justify this with serious journalistic observation? Well, according to her wikipedia page she cites Banksy as an influence. What kind of name-dropping wank-sack musician cites a graffiti artist as an influence*?

Needless to say, her performance successfully manages to reflect the pretentiousness of this notion. She puts on a show, and makes more of an effort than a thousand Snow Patrols but after watching her, even Nelson Mandela would have to murder a stranger just to let off some steam.

Retro electro**-pop duo Chromeo are a charming act on record, and on stage some of that charisma does come across but the intricate production that distinguishes their sound is lost in the field today. Their albums take the ?eighties if the eighties had actually been any good? vibe that Les Rythmes Digitales pioneered and add a sprinkling of synth-funk on top of it. Bands can sink or swim in open air, and even tracks like Fancy Footwork and Bonafide Lovin?, the Canadian duo fail to do themselves justice.

Musos! There’s A New Aphex Twin Album Afoot! (or: Don’t Hold Your Breath)

September 6th, 2010 By Mof Gimmers

Aphex Twin is something of an enigma. We’ve witnessed him in the flesh, being stretchered off during a DJ set which saw him downing a bottle of bad looking booze and falling from some curtains he’d climbed after playing Beastie Boys records – backwards. Then there’s the whole business of owning a tank and never releasing any records.

However, the latter is could be about to change as rumours abound that there’s a new Aphex Twin record in the pipeline.

Of course, only an idiot would hold their breath whilst waiting for release. In fact, we don’t know why anyone would hold their breath waiting for anything, unless you were waiting for someone to rescue you from a sunken ship.