As you should all know by now, Sian Alice Group are our favourite peddlers of epic ballads of love, loss, melancholy and joy by a bajillion and one miles. And guess what? Their new video is as spectral, bleak and strangely uplifting as anything else they have touched. Stop what you are doing and watch it now.
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Sian Alice Group would like to meet you
Sian Alice Group are our favourite purveyors of tear-stained melancholy, hope, joy and any other feeling man has successfully wrought with strings, drums and amplification. If you’re a fan of human emotion then I reckon you should bring yourself down to Rough Trade East tonight to see them play sections from their alarmingly good second record, Troubled, Shaken etc, which is released today. If you’re not a fan of human emotion, then screw you, you robot! Why don’t you just retreat into your black hole of repression and wait for Friday night so you can have horrible, competitive conversations with friends that hate you? This is what your phonecalls with your mum are like, isn’t it? You’re a backwards freak and I feel sorry for the toilet you shit in!
However, if you are a normal, breathing, feeling person, the band would also like to invite you to their album launch party on Thursday. Details for that after the jump. Read more »
All Tomorrow’s Parties - A very serious blog about a music festival
Last weekend the first of three annual conventions of music geekery and over-achieving, under-appreciated bands playing in deserted crumbling seaside resorts was interrupted by an unprecedented amount of guys with dreadlocks and high grade marijuana. This was all due to one band: Sleep. Eclipsing the whole weekend like a ginormous down-tuned riff-shitting giant, Al Cisneros, Matt Pike and Chris Hakius owned ATP with two sets of stoner-rock perfection. Ben Rayner was there to take photos and MDMA for us. He didn’t bother shooting too many bands.
