Tag: Bristol

Review: Bristol’s Malachai Explores Ugly Side

Their album art is horrid, so here's a scary press shot.

Malachai is too easily overlooked. This Bristol duo has got a lot to offer music aficionados, if only they’d stop saddling their pretty interesting records with pretty awful cover art. We’ve spared you that here, in the interest of hoping you might give this review a read.

Here’s an excerpt: “In a way, it’s as if The Beta Band was reborn with straight faces and a love for Portishead.”

I mean, that sounds interesting, right? Check it out via the A.V. Club.

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Review: Fuck Buttons, ‘Tarot Sport’

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As part of The A.V. Club’s annual “stuff we missed” roundup:

Fuck Buttons, Tarot Sport (ATP)

Fuck Buttons, 'Tarot Sport'

If the duo’s 2008 debut, Street Horrrsing, represents the uncontainable results of the group’s exploratory atom- smashing, the follow-up, Tarot Sport, is an attempt to capture that unwieldy energy and bend it into recognizable shapes.

Grade: A- (via The Onion / A.V. Club)

If the duo’s 2008 debut, Street Horrrsing, represents the uncontainable results of the group’s exploratory atom-smashing, the follow-up, Tarot Sport, is an attempt to capture that unwieldy energy and bend it into recognizable shapes.