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Guido Farnell, Journalist

Reviews / Album
Album Review: Anna Calvi - One Breath
An intense album that establishes Calvi as an artist to be reckoned with.
Reviews / Album
Album Review: Pink Martini - Get Happy
A Pink Martini is all you really need to get happy
Features / Music
The Art Of Noise
“The new album is very electronic and will need to be presented very differently when it’s played live. I don’t think it will lend itself to this grand, orchestral approach.”
Reviews / Live
Live Review: Amanda Palmer & The Grand Theft Orchestra, Die Roten Punkte
Citing Paul Kelly as an influence, Palmer traces a path From St Kilda To Fitzroy, which is her ode to all things Melbourne. Leeds United brings down the night and has everyone smiling, dancing and feeling pretty fine.
News / Music
MGMT: ‘We Finally Sound Like MGMT’
Hip indie kids finally sound like... themselves
Reviews / Album
Album Review: Larry Gus - Years Not Living
It feels like losing control at a wild party, but when the beats kick you know you’re having fun.
Features / Music
Mass Motivation
“It took me a long time to hear a soul or spirit in electronic music."
Reviews / Album
Album Review: The Bloody Beetroots - Hide
The Bloody Beetroots give us one wild roller coaster ride of an album that looks set to leave a trail of major dance floor damage in its wake.
Reviews / Album
Album Review: Machinedrum - Vapor City
Taking us from the ghettos to the affluent suburbs, Vapor City offers deep immersive listening.
Reviews / Album
Album Review: MGMT - MGMT
MGMT continue to explore the landscape of alternative psychedelic realities on their third album
Features / Music
Old Souls
“We were still in high school when Haptics came together. It was more of a collection of songs we had amassed over time."
Reviews / Album
Album Review: Factory Floor - Factory Floor
Gabriel Gurnsey’s angular electronic beats, a rock solid foundation for the mechanistic, synthetic repetitions that produce a squarely robotic noise and the hazy, dislocated vocals that occupy a more subliminal and seductive space in the mix.