News featuring Heart
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’13 May 24 Fri
Friday 24th May
Today: “Emma Louise: vs. Head vs. Heart”
Louise’s music itself works like a mind-altering drug. Each cut takes the listener to different places that seem to crumble beneath one’s feet. The cuts seem unfinished in a way, but that is how the songs are meant to be.
Trying to define the atmospheric qualities of a piece of music with words has certain inherent difficulties. Something that would be readily apparent in an instant to a listener takes many seconds to describe and the language inherently distorts what is depicted. Think about it. If I list iconic aural pieces such as Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony, the Beatles’ Sergeant Pepper, Michael Jackson’s “Beat It”, can you think of a clear way of identifying the works…
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’13 May 23 Thu
Thursday 23rd May
“The Pastels: Slow Summits – review”
(Domino)
People had very firm opinions on the Pastels in their 1980s heyday. For their (gently) pathologically devoted fans, the Glasgow indie cult heroes were natural heirs to Orange Juice, purveyors of some of the sweetest, most winsome sounds around. For their more vociferous detractors, the mop-topped, charity shop-jacketed Stephen Pastel was the quintessential twee drip. In 2013, it's hard to imagine such strong views either way, but their first full-length album in 16 years displays an unexpected new maturity. The group's trademark guitar pop has been fleshed out with violin, flute and even synthesiser. Drummer Katrina Mitchell's vocals lead the aching Secret Music and poppier Check My Heart. The loveliest track here, Summer Rain, is seemingly a trademark dewy, nostalgic love song, but reveals a subtle environmental message. Night Time Made Us verges on self-parody as Pastel sings the joys of daytime walks in cemeteries (but fleeing as night…
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“Behind the Candelabra proves it: our greatest romances are gay | Tom Shone”
As Soderbergh's Liberace biopic hits our screens, why is it that homosexual love stories now work so much better than hetero?
I know where I'll be Sunday night. The reviews coming out of Cannes for Steven Soderbergh's Liberace biopic, Behind the Candelabra, which airs on HBO on Sunday night, have turned it into must-see TV.
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“Tricky: 'I don't believe that death exists'”
The musician on his new album, False Idols, why he'd like to say sorry to Björk for their troubled relationship – and old men in tight trousers
Hello Tricky, where are you right now?
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“Laura Marling's new album reviewed”
(Virgin)
The most immediately striking thing about Once I Was an Eagle is how relentless it feels. That is not an adjective readily associated with Laura Marling, although perhaps it should be. On the one hand, profile writers have a tendency to depict the singer-songwriter as rather a delicate flower: young and aristocratic (her father is the Fifth Baronet Marling of Stanley Park and Sedbury Park), perpetually heartbroken and in charge of an acoustic guitar, as well as being pale and reserved – "with her grey-blue eyes and ghostly complexion, she has the intense, windswept look of a Brontë heroine", as one interviewer put it. She is an artist who suffers her way through playing live, which she once compared to having toothache, and worries about writing lyrics that are too personal "because my little heart can't take it". On the other, for one apparently so fragile and mild, there's certainly something relentless about…
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“Frankie & the Heartstrings - The Days Run Away”
This is a collection of elegantly assembled, fat-free pop songs, made from light and air and heart, and great choruses. It's the soul and centre of indie pop and deserves your immediate attention.
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“Potty Mouth playing MONSTER PROM at Big Snow w/ Weed Hounds, Celestial Shore & more (updated dates)”
Back in February, 285 Kent hosted the Indie Pop Prom, which included sets from The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, Swearin', Waxahatchee, Potty Mouth, and Weed Hounds (their first show in 2 years). Well, Potty Mouth and Weed Hounds must love playing proms, because this Saturday (5/25) at Big Snow, they'll play the MONSTER PROM, along with Celestial Shore, Slime Boyz, and Brown Bread. The show begins at 6 PM with a monster art show (which you can participate in) and music starts at 9. $7 at the door gets you in to this all ages show.
Potty Mouth, who will be releasing their debut LP this year, have other upcoming shows too, including another in NYC on June 5 at Cake Shop with Hard Nips, Leda (whose lineup includes Amy Klein of Hilly Eye and formerly of Titus Andronicus), and The Pretty Greens. That show is $8…
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’13 May 22 Wed
Wednesday 22nd May
“Miesha & the Spanks Recruit Ian Blurton to Produce 'Girls, Like Wolves,' Share New Single”
Calgary garage rock unit Miesha & the Spanks spent some time touring behind their 2011 album Gods of Love, and now their back with another full-length. Girls, Like Wolves is out on August 20 through Saved by Vinyl. The album was produced by Canadian cult hero Ian Blurton (C'mon, Change of Heart). Sessions took place over six days in a cabin on the lake in Kananaskis, AB. According to a press release, "the sweat of [Meisha] Louie and her drummer Stuart Bota's chemistry is felt on each track, hammered out with weight and urgency." For a taste of Girls, Like...Read More
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“Henri Dutilleux obituary”
One of France's leading composers, he used colour, harmony and form to magical effect
Henri Dutilleux, who has died aged 97, was the outstanding French composer between Messiaen and Boulez and, like both of them, achieved a wholly individual synthesis of ear-catching colours and harmonies with formal rigour. In a musical world where many loudly proclaim their independence, he was a true but discreet indépendant.
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“Bobby McFerrin: spirityouall”
One of the finest American musical interpreters hits us where it counts with spirityouall ... the heart.
No one should ever dismiss Bobby McFerrin. It's easy to forever associate him with the theme from The Cosby Show and "Don't Worry, Be Happy", but that disservices the listener far more than it does McFerrin. Yes, his innovation in the realm of a cappella is what he is best known for, but beyond the rhythmic body lies a voice so incredibly emotive. spirityouall is by all means a departure from jazz, and jazz in…
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