Articles Posted by Samuel Lambeth
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A Place To Bury Strangers, Hare & Hounds, Birmingham 09/05/12
The packed crowd were doing more than just nodding along; the bodies were cascading around like the Hare & Hounds was experiencing a bomb disaster.
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Album: The Brian Jonestown Massacre – Aufheben
Aufheben appearantly, and rather contradictorily, means to ‘preserve by tearing apart, which is a telling and apt title for the BJM and their anti-hero leader, Anton Newcombe.
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Album: The Cribs – In the Belly of the Brazen Bull
by Samuel Lambeth.
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Album: Brendan Benson – What Kind Of World
He’ll never recreate the breezy, fuzzed up power pop of his masterpiece ‘Lapalco’, but he does revisit it here, ten years on.
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Album: The Dandy Warhols – This Machine
This Machine, their ninth, is their sparsest and gloomiest to date, made for black fingernails and wintery nights.
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Single: Willy Mason – Restless Fugitive
When we all anointed Tom Vek for his long-awaited return, in our heads we were really, really wanting Willy Mason back.
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Album: Counting Crows – Underwater Sunshine (Or What We Did On Our Summer Vacation)
A new album…of cover versions. Yes, that sentence end will forever be a cold bucket of water on any fan hoping for a collection of new material.
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Album: All the Young – Welcome Home
In come, then, Stoke’s All the Young, who possess both a handy way with a tune and a Britpop-style swagger as cool as frontman Ryan Dooley’s shades.
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Album: The Futureheads – Rant
As Barry said, “if you don’t get Rant, you’re not a true Futureheads fan.” And we get it.
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Single: God Damn – God Damn
Pause Beavis and Butthead, pretend you’re in Seattle and stick this on your turntable. It’ll melt your face off but damn what a lovely way to burn.
