Articles by Andrew Steenberg

Black Rebel Motorcycle Club

Howl

PUBLISHED Oct 1, 2005

With all the talk of a stylistic shift amongst the club of black rebel motorcyclists, many things remain equable: the hair, the monochrome...

BrakesBrakesBrakes

Give Blood

PUBLISHED Oct 1, 2005

With just 16 songs in less than half an hour, Brakes give an economical lesson in how to make great, variegated music. Fronted by British S...

The Double

Loose in the Air

PUBLISHED Oct 1, 2005

There are two salient types of unsettling albums: the kind made by, say, a German teenager with a spectacularly bad frog sample, and the ki...

Sigur Rós

Takk…

PUBLISHED Oct 1, 2005

Perhaps more than any other major label act, Sigur Rós have made the best case for music as art. Highly emotive, they tackled beauty with A...

Tangiers

The Family Myth

PUBLISHED Oct 1, 2005

The thing that keeps Tangiers that extra bit better than most acts of their ilk is their inexorable hooks. The band could produce a song ab...

Warlocks

Surgery

PUBLISHED Sep 1, 2005

On Surgery, the Warlocks third full-length, the band appear to have successfully drawn influence from ’60s R&B and soul. It is doubtful, ho...

Múm

PUBLISHED Sep 1, 2005

Last year Múm had the opportunity to join Sigur Rós and the Notwist as figureheads in a genre that is still searching for an adequate title...

Tenement Halls

Knitting Needles & Bicycle Bells

PUBLISHED Sep 1, 2005

Tenement Halls’ front-man Chris Lopez may not know how to sing, but at least he knows it. He also knows how to write a quality pop song. As...