Archive for July, 2008
Thursday, July 31st, 2008
Polyphonic Spree: review
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The Metro Theatre, Sydney
29/07/08
Famously, a reviewer once declared he’d touched God at a Radiohead concert. I didn’t at The Polyphonic Spree but I went so close it didn’t matter. This was the best concert of 2008. An extraordinary celebration of everything that is great about rock music; uplifting, deeply [...]
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Monday, July 21st, 2008
The Polyphonic Spree
Who would have believed that out of the ruins of US indie psych popsters, Tripping Daisy, a band born of a different time and place and respirited in the ‘90s, would come the all singing, all dancing, quite remarkable entity that is the currently 23-strong The Polyphonic Spree?
And who would have thought a stage full [...]
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Friday, July 18th, 2008
Albert Hammond Jr
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Albert Hammond Jr is a strangely elusive man. The Strokes’ rhythm guitarist/songwriter is also a restless type. Holidays are short. While the rest of the band is off enjoying a substantial break in the wake of touring its third album, First Impressions Of Earth - a break lead singer Julian [...]
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Friday, July 4th, 2008
Sigur Ros shine, again
Med Sud I Eyrum Vid Spilum Endalaust
EMI
**** (4 stars)
It’s perhaps fitting that Sigur Ros appear naked on the album cover because this, the great Icelandic band’s fifth album, is largely its most stripped back and bare. That’s not to say those epic signature atmospheres are entirely absent. Festival builds magnificently over its 9 minutes-plus to [...]
