Categories
- Ambient
- Art
- Books
- Cazz Blase
- David Wilkinson
- Double blinds
- Drone
- Editorials
- Electro
- Experimental
- Folk
- From the Vaults
- Hip Hop
- House
- Indie
- Jazz
- Krautrock
- Labels
- Literature
- Michard Reltzer
- Minimalism
- New Media
- News
- Novels
- Philosophy
- Pop
- Post-rock
- Posthumanism
- Progressive Rock
- Psychedelia
- Punk
- Rock
- Shane Moritz
- Steve Hanson
- Steve Pescott
- Stoner
- Techno
- The Occult
- Triple deckers
- Uncategorized
- Writers
- Zines
Blogroll
- 555
- Alex Ross: The Rest Is Noise
- Asthmatic Kitty
- Bella Union
- Black Dog
- Bureau B
- Captain Trip
- Caroline True Records
- Charles Shaar Murray
- Cold Blue
- Demons Are Real
- Discus
- Drag City
- Enraptured
- Expanding Records
- FatCat
- Ghost Box
- Guerssen Records
- Honest Jons
- Hundred Acre Recordings
- Kooky Records
- m=minimal
- Mizmaze
- Mute
- Ochre
- Perfect Sound Forever
- Pitchfork
- Planet Mu
- Ptolemaic Terrascope
- Rocket Girl
- Shane Moritz
- Simon Reynolds: Blissblog
- Sounds of the Universe
- Static Caravan
- The Audacious Art Experiment
- The F-Word
- The Great Pop Supplement
- The Shrieking Violet
- Touch
- Variant
- Warp
Category Archives: Cazz Blase
Stealing Sheep – Into The Diamond Sun (Heavenly)
CB | Liverpool band Stealing Sheep make complex indie (in its truest sense) music that could be seen to be rooted in the variety of traditional folk rhythms and singing techniques that have more to do with the Ewan MacColl … Continue reading
Posted in Cazz Blase, Folk, Indie
Leave a comment
Lana Del Rey – Born To Die (Interscope)
CB | To complain about Lana Del Rey being a persona of Lizzie Grant is to complain about Alison Clarkson calling herself Betty Boo, or David Bowie (itself a pseudonym) adopting his most famous persona Ziggy Stardust. In each case … Continue reading
Posted in Cazz Blase, Hip Hop, Pop
Leave a comment
Jesca Hoop – The House That Jack Built (Bella Union)
CB | It’s been three years since Jesca Hoop’s debut album Hunting My Dress and since 2009 much has happened to Hoop, both personally and professionally. The House That Jack Built is dedicated to Hoop’s father Jack Dennis Hoop, and … Continue reading
Posted in Cazz Blase, Indie, Pop
Leave a comment
Poppy and The Jezebels – Sign In, Dream On, Drop Out (Caroline True Records)
CB | As well as being a great slice of surging electro-tinged indie pop from this now grown up teenage band, I can’t help but notice the way that the title, lyrics, and the slogan imagery in the accompanying video … Continue reading
Posted in Cazz Blase, Indie, Pop
Leave a comment
MSMR – Hurricane (independent release)
CB | In a year in which it’s more common to hear synths than guitars on much of what would traditionally be called ‘indie’, it’s interesting to hear ‘Hurricane’, an anthemic rock song that marries synths, guitars and pounding drums … Continue reading
Posted in Cazz Blase, Indie, Rock
Leave a comment
White Blush – Without You (independent release)
CB | Sparse and affecting in its intimacy, this debut release by singer-songwriter Carol Rhyu and producer John Ho evokes the ghost of Julee Cruise’s ‘Falling’ and the unbearable tension of Sonic Youth’s ‘Shadow of a Doubt’. It is beautiful … Continue reading
Posted in Cazz Blase, Indie, Rock
Leave a comment
doppler shift 