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The Top Ten Albums of 2009
14th December 2009 | 3 comments | 1 person likes this
10. The Dodos - Time to Die
Though sadly still, not a patch on the staggering Visiter, The Dodos headed for clean cut Shins/Fleet Foxes producer Phil Ek to make their third record Time to Die as a three piece. I thought (and still do a little) that the album suffers slightly without the rough edges that made their previous efforts so alive and human.
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Japandroids: Post Nothing
17th August 2009 | 0 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree
Japandroids debut record is the sonic equivalent of being in a wind tunnel. Its dense and thrashing distortion throws punk melodies of in a million directions. Brian King's phlegm thick guitar is rarely below 11 and David Prowse's primeval pounding demands the attention of all truly serious air drummers out there. Its an album of ridiculous abandonment, beautiful distortion and hilariously childish lines.
But there's more.
What makes Post Nothing's thumping garage/punk...
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Neil was born in the UK but weaned on cinema in the world's most isolated capital city (Perth, Australia). He moved to london in 2001 where he works as a film editor and writer. He has travelled widely and is passionate about cinema and music and can often be found waiting on line in the Brixton Sainbury's. This column is a little celluloid-like piece of him.





