New Radiohead album! - The King of Limbs

So the week started with the devastatingly exciting news that Radiohead are releasing a new album. Not much is known about it, but it's being released this weekend (19/02/11). As you might expect its going out in an unusual way, as the world's first Newspaper Album. This is what it looks like:


Have a look at this soundcloud for a selection of as-yet unreleased tracks that one fan thinks might make it onto the album.

*UPDATE 19/02/11*

The full album is now available to listen to here

Caribou at Plastic People. 29/01/11

Good old Caribou. Dan Snaith. The nerdy musician who likes maths. His latest work, Swim, was the best album of 2010. (Or the 7^th if you read the Guardian… 17^th if you read Pitchfork.) In fact I’m listening to it on my iPod now, which is a little keen as I’m waiting in a queue to see him perform. I’m outside a venue in Shoreditch, the area that was cool in the early-noughties. Like Camden a decade earlier. When Blur was around. I wait for just under 2 hours sipping John Smiths on the sly. This is Plastic People’s new management. They search through every single wallet.

James Blake - James Blake (Album)

James Blake cannot be accused of lacking ideas. In less than a year he has produced a range and variety of music that could have emerged from an entire career. Back in May, his EP CMYK wove R&B samples into powerful new statements, suggesting an alternative path for the future of dubstep. In his next EP, Klavierwerk, Blake adapted his complex musical production to an unexpected source: his own voice. If the vocal element here was a revelation, his sheer vocal talent was the next surprise, which came in a pared-down cover of Feist’s ‘Limit To Your Love.’ By the release of this single, Blake had confounded the possibility of being pigeonholed. His style was ever-changing, unpredictable and continually exciting.

Three Thousand - These New Puritans

Amazing track from These New Puritans new album, Hidden. Full album review on the way... 

Caribou - Jamelia

Brilliant track from Caribou's last album, Swim. Caribou will be playing at the Shepherd's Bush Empire on 22nd February (details here).

Sufjan Stevens - The Age of Adz

4/5

This album manages at once to be grandiose and beautifully small. Bombastic tracks like 'Get Real Get Right' sit alongside understated and melodic tracks like 'Vesuvius' (which presents Stevens's voice against his twitching and restless production.) The best tracks combine these elements - 'Impossible Soul', a glorious 25 minute finale, dips in and out of different modes and is almost operatic in its scope and scale. Ultimately, the album is a little overburdened by ponderous tracks like 'Now That I'm Older' and 'Bad Communication' which certainly slow things down, but the best bits ('Get Real Get Right' and 'I Want To Be Well'), complete with Stevens's characteristic wind-instruments keep up the pace.