After a big long summer break, gig reviews start off again with a trip to the Voodoo Rooms where we get blasted in the face with some electro and fuzz rock.
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And So I Watch You From Afar are that post-rock band that figured out that injecting a solid amount of attitude into your structured and complex melodies is exactly what a largely instrumental, fairly tired, genre of music needs. Simon explores Gangs, the group's newest delivery.
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Metronomy hadn’t been to Edinburgh for a while, and the release of their new album The English Riviera was an excellent excuse to make the trip up North and hitting up Edinburgh’s Cabaret Voltaire. Simon went and checked it out.
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Simon talks to the Smith Westerns about SXSW and touring with The Vaccines, and bobs along to a lively set by The Ceasars, a well put together performance by the Smith Westerns, and a really-hard-to-take-seriously set from The Vaccines.
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Simon talks about Nine Types of Light - TV on the Radio's attempts at love songs, abandoning the dystopia that was so present in Return to Cookie Mountain and the dance shoes that Dear Science brought us.
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With no knowledge of what to expect of the Iron & Wine gig Simon went into the Picturehouse, was at first confused, in doubt, and a bit appalled, but found himself singing along by the end.
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We found ourselves at the Voodoo Rooms to witness Edinburgh's almost-royalty-any-day-now band FOUND try and sell us their newest (and third) album - Factorycraft.
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