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“Play quietly” the liner notes suggest. We’re in ambient territory. Noted producer Chris Hughes (Tears For Fears, Robert Plant, etc.) has based this album on works by seminal composer Steve Reich, however, so it’s a genuinely intelligent deconstruction of rhythm and sound patterns rather than mere New Age meanderings. Of…
Read More*** What was unusual about Chris Hughes’s 1994 album of Steve Reich adaptations was that it avoided the more obvious dance-friendly directions of the Little Fluffy Clouds era in favour of the early, hardcore stuff. Hughes used the might of 90s music technology to reimagine Drumming and Piano Phase for…
Read MoreBrothers Alex and Thomas White contributed to one of Rocksucker’s favourite albums of last year as part of The Pure Conjecture, and now they’re back with IDIOTS, their first album as The Electric Soft Parade since 2007′s No Need to Be Downhearted. They’ve burrowed even further into our favour now,…
Read MoreThe White brothers are back! Not that they were ever really away, with Thomas’ Yalla being one of our favourite albums of last year, and Alex’s Interlocutor side project having played a few gigs recently, and both of them adding their helping hands to dozens of local bands. The last…
Read MoreIn the six years since the last ESP LP there’s been a couple of Brakes albums (though that seems to have come to a halt now), three Thomas White solo records, European dates with Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds and several quadrillion side projects, guest appearances, fill-ins and touring band…
Read MoreThe Electric Soft Parade are back this week with a new single and video, ‘Brother You Must Walk Your Path Alone’. This is the first track we’ve heard from their forthcoming fourth LP ‘IDIOTS’ which is due out in the summer. I say ‘back’ but really Alex and Thomas White…
Read MoreTrack Of The Day #268 It’s been a minute since we heard from brothers Alex and Thomas White in their Electric Soft Parade guise, but the Brighton group return this June with a new record in ‘IDIOTS’. The band toured with Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds for the 10th anniversary…
Read MoreWhere have the Electric Soft Parade been for the last six years, you ask? If you’ve never heard of them you wouldn’t have noticed it, but for various reasons one of the loveliest-sounding bands in the UK haven’t released an album since ‘No Need To Be Downhearted’ in 2007. Don’t…
Read MoreBrother, You Must Walk Your Path Alone Re-emerging after a six-year break, this is the first single from the band’s forthcoming fourth album IDIOTS. The White brothers’ harmonies are as tight as ever, but other than their sombre decadence, this is a stripped-down, minimalist return. – John Hall
Read MoreThe Electric Soft Parade are set to return with new album ‘IDIOTS’ – their first in six years. After spending more than a decade making music together, The Electric Soft Parade could perhaps be forgiven for wanting a break. The Brighton group went on hiatus back in 2009, placing their…
Read MoreCrybaby, AKA Danny Coughlan, cuts through the swarm of singer-songwriters out there with bags of originality and a sharp cutting sound that reminds me of first listening to Johnny Cash – not in style but in the way all of the elements just work, in a way that’s hard to…
Read MoreDanny Coughlan, the heart and song writing soul of Crybaby stands centre stage at the packed out Louisiana holding his guitar tight to his chest, preparing to play the last of a small tour promoting the band’s eponymous album, released this summer. What is plain to see is the poise…
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