- Luke Temple
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A fan of distorted guitars, alternative rock, big beats, electronica and blues. Likes to listen, likes to write.
Listens to B.R.M.C, The Kills, The Black Angels, The Black Keys, Radiohead, Massive Attack, The Knife, Interpol, TV on the Radio, Boxer Rebellion, Chemical Brothers, Underworld, The Prodigy, Autechre, Boards of Canada, Orbital and others.
Reviews:
Lotte Mullan - Plain Jane Album Review- Lotte Mullan’s album is so middle-of-the-road that it could have been produced on a traffic island. Accordingly, it’s functional but uninspiring. During the first listen, her album...
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Various Artists - 4.3.2.1. Motion Picture Soundtrack Album Review- The Times’s review of Noel Clarke’s new film, 4.3.2.1., describes it is as “bruisingly urban”, which is a good place to start. The soundtrack certainly gives the impression that Cl...
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Sophie Hunger - 1983 Album Review- A television interviewer once asked Sophie Hunger where her boundaries lie, to which she replied by tracing the outline of her body with a finger. Now, to me, that sounds like some...
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- Japandroids,Yuck,Love At Death Beach @ The Harley Hotel/ Bar - 17/05/2010 - Live Review
- With a squalling and raucous opening, local band Love at Death Beach warmed up Sheffield’s The Harley nicely. Throughout their short set, claps and whoops from the crowd had an app...
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Adam Palmer & The Specialest - Lights Album Review- Adam Palmer and The Specialest present an intriguing combination (although it’s difficult to come to terms with that ‘e’). Folksy guitar and soft vocals from the former is melded w...
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Ice Black Birds - As Birds We’d Be Fine Single Review- Cynically, I’ve interpreted the press release description of new Ice Black Birds single – having “more commercial appeal in comparison to their debut” – as a sly way of declaring t...
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Let's Go To War - Karmageddon Album Review- “When you’ve produced for the likes of Britney Spears, you’re already on your way to cementing your place in the higher echelons of the music world, but Canada’s Let’s Go To War a...
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Psychopathic Romantics - Pretty Prizes Album Review- Take The Strokes at the very beginning of their career. Put them on to boil (with a glug of vinegar) and cook off the hype, fashion obsession and tight rhythms. The resulting gloop...
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Radio I-Ching - No Wave Au Go Go Album Review- Three-piece collective Radio I-Ching open their album ‘No Wave Au Go Go’ with a bang. The percussion smashes whilst a demonic sax has a fit over film-noir chugging guitar (think Si...
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Kakuzi - Sun Kissed Planet Single Review- Sun Kissed Planet is a nice song, as the name suggests. The introduction features what sounds like a marimba (or xylophone, my ear for wooden keyboards isn’t refined, unless they c...
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Paperplain - Entering Pale Town EP Review- Starting with a telephone trill, followed by simple yet elegant piano and her soft voice, Paperplain, aka 19 year-old Helen Page, opens her new mini-album in a minimal but assured ...
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L-Mo - Got Gumption? Album Review- L-Mo are the skaters’ Jack Johnson, a nice acoustic band that sing about general stuff and who appear to be, you know, jolly nice fellows. The lead singer wears a funny peaked cap....
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Freeland - Cope Remixed Album Review- Freeland is a mish-mash collective which, for its newest offering Cope TM, contains regular Adam Freeland (DJ) plus Tommy Lee (Motley Crue), Joe Santiago (Pixies), Twiggy Ramirez (...
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Katatonia - Night Is The New Day Album Review- It’s “Katatonia”. Not “Catatonia”. Obviously. Jeez, surely no one would be that idiotic, that stupid, to request to review an album by Swedish Doom-Metalists “Katatonia”, thinking ...
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The Blue Eyed Shark Experiment - Aun Aprendo (I’m Still Learning) EP Review- According to the “kooky” Myspace About Me, The Blue Eyed Shark Experiment has dined with Radiohead. Now if ‘Generation’, the opening track to the Aun Aprendo EP, was on at the time...
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Long Range - Control Me EP Review- To the relief of electronica fans and many a raver, Orbital’s “split” in 2004 was a short-lived affair. The dance juggernauts’ reformation in 2009 saw them headlining seemingly eve...
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Popgun - Manic Anti-Depressive Album Review- From the turgid drumming, amateur guitar and tuneless vocals of opening song “Fucked Up”, it’s difficult not to rain down scorn on Manic Anti-Depressive, the second album from Norw...
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Julian Plenti [Paul Banks] - Julian Plenti is...Skyscraper Album Review- Although the album title suggests Julian Plenti is an oversized building, he’s actually Paul Banks, lead singer of New York band Interpol. Plenti happens to be Banks’ pre-Interpol ...
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Don Jacobs - Late Night Radio Album Review- Don Jacobs isn’t the biggest name on the music scene right now. In fact, a Google search brings up a different fellow called Donald Jacobs first (enjoys fishing, great food, flying...
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Don Jacobs - Late Night Radio Album Review- Don Jacobs isn’t the biggest name on the music scene right now. In fact, a Google search brings up a different fellow called Donald Jacobs first (enjoys fishing, great food, flying...
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Chores - The Subtle Politics of the Public Hammock Album Review- Doing the Ironing? Washing the car? Cleaning your bedroom? Anyone up for these things? No? Well, there’s a quick audience survey to show that Chores is a daft name for a band. It a...
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Doves - Winter Hill Single Review- Oh Doves, you cheeky Mancunians, releasing a song called “Winter Hill” in the middle of a July heatwave so hot I half expect liquid mercury to slide out of the frosty-themed single...
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Isa & The Filthy Tongues - Addiction(Special Edition) Album Review- Debut album “Addiction” from Isa and the Filthy Tongues starts off well: perhaps too well. Following dark opener “Big Star” (see single review), “Dreamcatcher” is full of rumbling ...
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Silversun Pickups - Panic Switch Single Review- Live, Silversun Pickups are good at the aural assaults. Catching them a year or so ago, they seemed to be attempting to generate small-hurricanes onstage. My lugholes got a true th...
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- Isa & The Filthy Tongues - Big Star Single Review
- Perhaps the greatest thing that the members of Isa & The Filthy Tongues have is a few years under their belt. In the early nineties the three fellas were Angelfish (along with Shir...
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