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Making Sense of Father John Misty’s Pure Comedy
What happens when the whole world suddenly becomes one of post-facts and suddenly your post-irony persona starts to lose its magic? That’s the question that Josh Tillman seems to be asking himself throughout his surreal short film Pure…
Sounds Like Now #10 | Brand New Brand New
WORD UP. We were moving house and got lost down a couch. It's been a strange few weeks, huh? Daphne & Celeste (yep, them) returning with a shockingly damn good art-pop effort, the awful Madonna/Drake fuss about absolutely nothing and…
Sounds Like Now #9 | Gruff Noise
Shucky ducky quack quack! It's YOUR best and worst tracks o' the week. Let's get to it.
SUPER COOL COMPILATION OF THE WEEK
GruffWuff - BarryGruff
Intrepid blogger and connoisseur of damn fine music BarryGruff celebrates five years of his…
Sounds Like Now #8 | Miami Disco
Right. Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number is out. I've just installed it. By the time you read this, I'll be lost in a violent neon blood-soaked haze. If you're unfamiliar with all things Hotline Miami, please note the following:
1. It's…
Sounds Like Now #7: Girl Band~~~~~~~~~!
I know what you're thinking. There's no need for that many tildes. It's excessive. More to the point, it's obnoxious. Madness, really. What could possibly justify such extravagant repetition? GLAD YOU ASKED, SIR OR MADAM:
TRACK OF THE…
Sounds Like Now #6: All Hail All Tvvins
Phew. It's a week as busy as the new Dan Deacon album, dear reader, so let's skip the preamble and get right to it. Stay tuned for new turns from Florence + The Machine (or whichever way they style it now), Passion Pit, Everything…
Sounds Like Now #5: Jaden Smith VS Jinx Lennon. Plus, Some Actual Good Songs.
In a week in which Annie Lennox completely blew Hozier off the stage at the Grammys and everyone nonetheless bowed down to Ireland's new supreme overlord of music, we cast the spotlight over a pair of more renegade artists. In the red…
Sounds Like Now #4: Villagers, Modest Mouse, Chromatics & Kanye’s latest dumb video
Greetings and salutations, another edition of Sounds Like Now is upon us. A week filled with heavyweight names, surprise returns, soundtrack offerings, star turns and a truly awful video courtesy of Kanye West, who is really beginning to…
Sounds Like Now #3: Running Jewels
Taylor Swift may have gone and trademarked the phrase 'This Sick Beat' but that isn't going to stop us from delivering some sick beats of our own. See, we didn't actually use the full expression there so she can't sue. Take that, Swifty.…
Sounds Like Now #2: BRIT Awards Edition
Two weeks in and we're already deviating from the script but the nominations for this year's BRIT Awards have been announced so what better way to assess the current health of British pop?
Here's the thing. When most people refer to 'pop…