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Live4ever’s Essential Listening 2012: The Best Indie Albums

Our Essential Listening 2012 series concludes today with The Albums.

From the ‘cohesion through experimentation’ of Tame Impala’s ‘Lonerism, through the ‘muscular power ballads, stirring, keyboard-led harmonies and call-and-response choruses’ that inform The Killers’ return with ‘Battle Born’, to the ‘sheer magnetism and unwavering belief’ which made ‘Blunderbuss’ such a …

Review: Beach House – ‘Bloom’

“Sad is happy for deep people.”

So spoke a young woman wandering around an abandoned house in a Doctor Who episode not so very long ago. She might just have a point though.

‘Bloom’ is a record of crushing sadness, and weird as it may seem, there’s a lot of …

Review: Beach House @ Manchester Cathedral

There’s something altogether audacious and inspired about staging a rock concert on hallowed ground. Few bands could hope to fill the vast, crooked spaces of a cathedral. The faintest whisper carries up to the rafters; songs refined in clubs and dance halls come out sounding like muddy white noise. It’s …