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CD and DVD music reviews this week includes I Am Kloot, Black Francis, The Pipettes, Pavement, Kaki King, Kathryn Williams, Mixtapes & Cellmates, Lightspeed Champion and more!!

 

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29/07/2010 Album Reviews Brendan Perry
Whilst Perry may not be thumping five pounds of raw meat against a table in an attempt to get the right percussive sound, he does produce some fairly uncommon results

read: Brendan Perry ~ Ark ~ review

29/07/2010 Album Reviews Kathryn Williams
What kind of sense is it likely to make to those who don’t have children themselves and don’t have the perks and patience of a remarkably tolerant record supporting them is anyone’s guess

read: Kathryn Williams ~ ‘Playing Out – Songs For Children & Robots’ ~ review

15/07/2010 Album Reviews Eliza Doolittle
Punchy, mischievous and bouncing along with the kind of energy more commonly associated with children consuming too many vitamins, Doolittle wraps her rubbery, husky vocals around a bakers dozen songs about sex, make-up, downloads and missing dogs

read: Eliza Doolittle ~ Eliza Doolittle ~ review

28/06/2010 Album Reviews I Am Kloot
‘Skt At Night’ packs in all the usual tales of quietly satisfying isolation, loathing and longing of metro bus routes, pub tap-rooms and rainy afternoons in Bolton and lays them against a starry, starrry sky of dazzling, epic proportions

read: I Am Kloot ~ Sky At Night ~ review

11/06/2010 Album Reviews Grasscut
A psychedelic past and futurescape of trickling electronica, wonky beats and hyper-real travel literature; like missionaries from another dimension, the lads offer up a curiosity shop of rucksacks, tents, maps, compasses and cellos

read: Grasscut ~ 1 inch/ ½ Mile ~ review

11/06/2010 Album Reviews Bodi Bill
As buoyant and eccentric as bands like Psapp, as sizzling as Hot Chip, as meticulous as Mozart and as snazzy as Hall & Oates. It’s the thinking man’s electro: more elegiac than electric and more brow than beats

read: Bodi Bill ~ Two In One ~ review

11/06/2010 Album Reviews The Pipettes
‘Earth Versus The Pipettes’, a successful marriage of Sophie Ellis-Bextor posh-bird pop and Barbarella zero-gravity kitsch pretty much picks up where ‘I Love My Heart To A Starship Trooper’ and the Rah Band’s ‘Clouds Across the Moon’ left off

read: The Pipettes ~ Earth Versus The Pipettes ~ review

03/06/2010 Album Reviews Black Francis
This is an album of rough ideas, demoed up in as proper a fashion as time, energy and material allows and promptly served for his legion of fans to invest with some significance or other and contribute to his ever extended tithing tray

read: Black Francis ~ Six Legged Man ~ review

03/06/2010 Album Reviews Herve
It’s been alleged that the six men charged with licensing offences following an illegal rave in a Pembrokeshire village over the bank holiday weekend had been spurred on by the release of Herve’s ‘Ghetto Bass 2’

read: Herve ~ Ghetto Bass 2 ~ review

02/06/2010 Album Reviews Mixtapes & Cellmates
Currently trading the kind of licks from commonly associated with prickly guitar bands like Editors and foaming with the fury of a tempest-tossed British Sea Power. But it’s still implausibly gorgeous

read: Mixtapes & Cellmates ~ Rox ~ review

02/06/2010 Album Reviews Pavement
C’mon, admit it, how many British ‘fans’ of the band could really name two singles by Malkmus and the boys, with the exception of ‘Country House’ and ‘Song 2’?

read: Pavement ~ Quarantine The Past: The Best of Pavement ~ review

02/06/2010 Album Reviews Pernice Brothers
‘Bechamel’ still offers the breezy, hippy dream-pop popularised by the likes of ‘Teenage Fanclub’ in the UK and ‘The Shins’ in the US but with one or two impractical cooking metaphors and some artificial sweeteners

read: Pernice Brothers ~ Goodbye, Killer ~ review

29/07/2010 News Stories Badly Drawn Boy
Trilogy of albums and tour announced.

read: Badly Drawn Boy ~ ‘It’s What I’m Thinking’ and ‘Part 1 – Photographing Snowflakes’

27/07/2010 News Stories Max Sedgley
Take it to the Max. More sounds from Sedgley boy.

read: Max Sedgley ~ 'Suddenly Everything' ~ 'Sound Boy' releases.

15/07/2010 News Stories I Am Kloot
You are kloot, they are Kloot, we are Kloot, I Am Kloot. UK theatres set to embrace 'the Kloot' this autumn.

read: I Am Kloot ~ Autumn Tour dates

13/07/2010 News Stories Various Unknown Artists
Old Romantics, Duran Duran head-up latest Bowie tribute album.

read: Various Unknown Artists ~ We Were So Turned On: A Tribute To David Bowie

12/07/2010 News Stories Feeder
Single and festival news.

read: Feeder ~ Renegades

24/06/2010 News Stories Twilight Sad
The right trousers, but the wrong car. New EP and Errors tour dates.

read: Twilight Sad ~ ‘The Wrong Car’ EP

22/06/2010 News Stories Frightened Rabbit
A winter of mixed metaphors. Tour dates for those frightened folk.

read: Frightened Rabbit ~ November and December Tour Dates

21/06/2010 News Stories Clinic
Something to chew on: new single, new album.

read: Clinic ~ 'Bubblegum' ~ New album

15/06/2010 News Stories Gorillaz
Tearful Monkey Sortz Get the Hump. New single and September Tour dates.

read: Gorillaz ~ 'On Melancholy Hill'

11/06/2010 News Stories Tom Jones
Tom hits the resurrection shuffle button for a not unusual return to his roots. The man from the valleys is coming home!

read: Tom Jones ~ 'Praise & Blame' new album

The Pet Shop Boys – Metro Radio Arena, Newcastle, 23.07.2010/Reclaimed. Restocked. Revived. Revisiting. Purveyors of 80s pop-art bounce back with exuberant homecoming gig. Linda Jobling asks what have we done to deserve this?
28/07/10

News June 2010/I Am Kloot ~ Sky At Night/Crud takes a clearly inappropriate metaphor to throw the uplifting melancholy of I Am Kloot's new album into dazzling relief. 'Sky At Night' is released July 05th 2010.
23/06/10

News June 2010/The Pipettes ~ Earth Versus The Pipettes /To boldly go where no manufactured all girl pop duo has gone before! The Pipettes release eagerly awaited second album. With sequins and sh*t.
01/06/10

News June 2010/Bustin Out New Wave To New Beat/Fire Up The Quattro! Gene Genie, DJ Mike Maguire sketches out a road map of the alleyways and tubeways of the early 1980s electronic scene.
01/06/10

News April 2010/LCD Soundsystem/Dance From Above! LCD Soundsystem are preparing to drop their third infectious payload on UK and US Audiences. Collateral damage anticipated.. New album, 'This is Happening' out May 17th.
23/04/10

News April 2010/Lou Rhodes/Songs of innocence and experience. Lou Rhodes explores the haunting vicissitudes of grief with minimal acoustic album. New album, 'One Good Thing' out now.
22/03/10

Coordinates Interview/Tom Williams & the Boat/Crud asks Tom Williams, Where's Your Head At? New single ‘Concentrate’ out now!
15/04/10

News April 2010/Turin Brakes/Quiet is STILL the new loud. Perennial folk-duo Olly Knights and Gale Paridjanian put the brakes on major releases with scaled-back studio album for Cooking Vinyl. New album 'Outbursts' out now.
25/03/10

Best Albums of the Noughties - Top 40 Albums 2000-2009/What better way to celebrate Crud Magazine's ten year reign as best-loved least-read music magazine than by taking a leisurely look back at the releases that rang our bells the most. Stroke Your National Monkey. Yeaaaah.
22/12/09

Coordinates Interview/We Were Promised Jetpacks/Crud asks Adam Thompson of We Were Promised Jetpacks, Where's Your Head At? New album 'Forget The Night Ahead' out now!
17/12/09

Era$e/Rew]nd - All Over Me/Irfan Shah takes a 'riotous' look at new coming of age flick, 'All Over Me'. Soundtrack includes: Ani De Franco; Babes in Toyland; Cornershop; Patti Smith; The Jesus and Mary Chain; The Amps; Drugstore; Sleater Kinney.
08/12/09

Arctic Monkeys @ Wembley Arena, London 18.11.09/Tom Collins experiences all the right shivers in all the right places as an icy blast from the arctic rips threw a packed out Wembley Winter. Welcome to the carnival.
02/12/09

Coordinates Interview/Charlotte Hatherley/Crud asks Charlotte Hatherley, Where's Your Head At? New album 'New Worlds' out now!
22/11/09

Flaming Lips @ Troxy, London 11.11.09/Don't worry about the road being rough - Wayne Coyne has a ball. The Lips abort the challenging Embryonics for a night of dry-ice, lasers, confetti, crowd-balling and all the usual fearless malarky. Tom Collins has the details.
25/11/09

The National @ Royal Festival Hall, London, 10.08.2009/James Berry refuses to hedge his bets on the enduring and 'comfortable' grandiosity of Brooklyn-based post-punkers, The National.
11/09/09

Era$e/Rew]nd - The Gay Bed & Breakfast of Terror/Carry on Screaming - Irfan Shah turns the (breakfast) tables on the establishment with a 'memento' style look at films they didn't want you to see. This time it's French farce done by Hammer Horror - with anal.
25/08/09

The Twilight Sad / We Were Promised Jetpacks @ ICA, London, 09.07.2009/James Berry and the Kilsyth Four (or Five) pursue a path of sad, negative equity over the Forth Road Bridge ahead of a much 'noisier and bigger' new album.
13/08/09

Era$e/Rew]nd - Before Stonewall/Under Pressure - Irfan Shah turns the hose back on the establishment with a 'memento' style look at ''Before Stonewall' - an exploration of prejudice and gay pride in 1960s America - re-released with extras.
12/08/09

Metric @ Electric Ballroom, London, 19.05.09/James Berry puts internal conflicts aside and enters the fantasies of Canada's prevailing ice-queen, Emily Haines and plants a big fat smacker on her frothing cherry-red lips. So to speak.
06/07/09