Beggars Arkive What a blast from the past: Bowery Electric. For a few years at the end of the 1990s, their second LP Beat was one of the albums that was trying to turn music on its head, suffusing so many different styles into a languid hybrid that held something for everybody. In […]
Bowery Electric
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Label: Beggars Banquet Format: 12″,CDS Initially, this is really quite disappointingly normal, especially when compared to the stunningly evocative combination of HipHop rhythms with Isolationist textures which made up the remarkable Beat album a few years back. By contrast “Freedom Fighter” goes for the laid-back, casual-smoking vocal style and ironic personality analysis song-structure of indie […]
Label: Rocketgirl Format: CD,2LP Now that Spacemen 3 have joined the pantheon of those influential enough to have had a wide impact on a broad variety of other bands sufficient to inspire their collection into an album’s worth of covers, perhaps there’ll be a flood of homages to late Eighties […]