January 2011
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ALBUM ARTWORK: CUT COPY - ZONOSCOPE
Cut Copy’s latest album Zonoscope set to be realeased February 8, 2011 features cover art of New York City engulfed in a waterfall, created by the late Japanese photomontage artist Tsunehisa Kimura.
Kimura’s montages feature bizarre conjunctions of colossal man-made monuments with vast natural phenomena, huge, clean, clear, sharp images of fantastic but realistic collisions of the...
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ALBUM REVIEW: WHITE LIES - RITUAL
Without calling White Lies’ debut album a masterpiece, as that might sound like exaggerating, one should agree it was a promising debut, and it’s not a mistake to say that almost each song of the album had a single potential. Given these circumstances, it was only natural for fans and reviewers to expect something similar, maybe even better, from their sophomore. The release of the first single,...
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ALBUM ARTWORK: RATATAT - LP4
The meaning of the album art for Ratatat’s latest album is revealed in their interview with DazedDigital:
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DD: What’s with the birds on the record/artwork? Ratatat: That’s my bird - she was in the studio with us when we made the record, so we kinda put her there. You can hear her in the record, her sounds - so we sampled the bird. In the track Grape Juice City- you can...
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ALBUM REVIEW: HURTS - HAPPINESS
Of course, what you are to read is a case of taking sides. With Hurts it’s impossible not to take one side (love them) or the other (hate them). Their wet hair, their ‘Tears For Fears shot by Anton Corbijn’ photographs, their sax solos, their lingering 80s synths, their early 90s (electro) pop sensibilities. The Mancunian duo seems to love making it hard for some to accept their sheer existence,...