'It’s Hard To Push Back The Fear': Jay Watson Steps Into The Light As GUM

Guido Farnell, Journalist

Reviews / Live
Live Review: Bastille, Tigertown, Lurch & Chief
Bastille tread a very fine line between indie cool and complete crossover, which is where it seems these lads are ultimately headed.
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Live Review: CHVRCHES, City Calm Down
The ecstatic crowd demand an encore so Chvrches conclude the evening with a cover of Prince’s I Would Die For You.
Reviews / Album
Album Review: Lo Five - Singularity
The result is 13 groovalicious tracks that swagger from sweet neo soul to sly funk.
Reviews / Album
Album Review: Olafur Arnalds - For Now I Am Winter
Arnalds’ latest longplayer continues to work up hauntingly beautiful and dreamy atmospheres but this time around they exist in numbing subzero temperatures
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Album Review: Sigur Ros - Kveikur
Perhaps now quite a different band to the one that Tommy Lee once liked to listen to in a foetal position, Sigur Rós seem to have entered an entirely new phase of their recording career.
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Album Review: Various Artists - Ed Rec Vol X
This compilation evidences that the artists signed to Ed Banger continue to evolve beyond the influential electro bangers that made them famous in the first place. It will be interesting to see what the crew will give us in the next ten years
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Album Review: Jon Hopkins - Immunity
Waves crash on the sand and squawking seagulls fly above our heads as Hopkins’ field recordings quietly fade. Immunity drips with a delicate beauty that is sure to resonate with many listeners.
Reviews / Live
Live Review: Clairy Browne & The Bangin' Rackettes, Dune, Forest Of Eyes
Browne and company have turned a dreary, cold Friday evening into a sizzling hot and sweaty one. The crowd disappear into the night with smiles on faces, feeling energised.
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Live Review: Goblin, Miles Brown
This evening’s gig delivers on all levels and provides us with a rare opportunity to see a truly seminal band from the ‘70s perform some of their greatest hits.
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Album Review: Pet Shop Boys - Electric
The Boys are back in town with a master class in synth pop that suggests retirement is for old folks.
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Live Review: Boris, Margins
It brings down an evening that unusually saw the band move in more abstract and textural directions, but at the very core of their sound the metal-inspired noise they make still produces a satisfying sensory overload.
Reviews / Album
Album Review: Letherette - Letherette
Letherette is a solid debut from a couple of ‘lether’ boys that should put a smile on the faces of those currently randomly accessing memories.