Listen Before You Buy

I’m not hugely knowledgeable about Belarus, if I’m honest. I know a bit about the Bielski Partisans (of Defiance fame). I know it has one of the largest chunks of primeval woodland left in Europe: the Bialowieza Forest. That’s about it, really. Of course, this being a music blog and not, say, a Lonely Planet web portal, [...]

I enjoyed Digitalism’s earlier single, “Blitz”.  I mean, really enjoyed.  I played the shit out of that song.  ”Blitz” had a masterful dance sheen of it, so hip it could background the “Skins” series intro, hypnotizing with its rotating synth drone. So needless to say I shrieked at the sight of new single “2 Hearts” [...]

When I was 14 years old I got a little Casio keyboard for my birthday.  Dreams of being rich and famous saw me get as far as learning to play a couple of simple kids ryhmes.  Strangely there didn’t seem room in the charts for vital reimaginings of this genre of music so my dreams [...]