Month: August 2002

Sensual, fresh, breezy, cool and easy, jazzy – just about everything’s already been said about this album that could be said this briefly. Not that this comes as any real surprise. Released in 2000 to both commercial and critical acclaim in its hometown of Brazil as well as internationally, the full debut release by South America’s Bebel Gilberto is nothing if not romantic. But being daughter of the reverent bossa nova innovator, Joao Gilberto – and possibly the most loved Continue Reading

So we put this record on a couple of months back when it first dropped through the letter box and as ‘I Go Down’, ‘Silence’, ‘Deep Blue Day’ and the like ascended with a certain degree of pompous grandeur from our weathered speakers, we thought that we hadn’t heard anything with quite this measure of puffy chested bombast and silky-lined craftsmanship since McAlmont & Butler stopped pointing encrusted daggers at each other’s backs. Only more morose, obviously. Then McAlmont & Continue Reading

Fierce Panda: best indie label in the UK? It’s a title worth an argument or two over at least. So you’ll be wanting some evidence then I suppose? Alright, what about these 16 tracks culled from Panda releases over the last year (singles, b-sides, album tracks), thrown together onto a CD with some footballers on the front (no doubt  drawing a quaint but accurate analogy/cliché between the collective power of a team and that no signing should be hoisted above Continue Reading