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Winter 1...
Peter and the Pirates shares excellent new track Winter 1. A few years ago I did order some release(s?) by the band, but I don’t recall the band sounding this great (noisier and less catchy, but perhaps my mind is playing tricks on me?). So time to give the band a second chance I guess…
Pete and The Pirates Fight Off The Blues With New Single "Knots"
Despite his lyrical melancholy Thomas Sanders, lead singer of two awesome English indie bands Pete and the Pirates and Tap Tap, likes to maintain some optimism. Case in point, the Bloc Party/Kinks-esque first single "Knots" from the new Pete and the Pirates album, Little Death. It’s a humble, call-to-arms tale that pits mis-stepping against adventure. But which one will walk the...
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Pete and the Pirates - Little Death
This relatively new group from England have caught my ear recently. I just picked up the Little Death album and can’t stop listening to it. Pete and the Pirates aren’t doing anything terribly new, but somehow use an exhausted formula, rearrange the ingredients in a way that sounds fun and raw, yet extremely polished. This is probably achieved with the help of producer Gareth Parton...
Little Death
Band name: PETE AND THE PIRATES Label: Stolen Recordings Teaser: It’s been a long wait, but the Pirates have finally come up with those silver nuggets they’d promised us. Everyone go ‘Arrrrrr!’ for their debut album, as reviewed by Lewis Hingston… Pull quote 2: The pep and ebullience of the band’s live performances is bottled up perfectly on...
PETE AND THE PIRATES
Venue: Artrocker All Ages @ the Roundhouse, London Teaser: Lewis Hingston goes undercover at this weekend’s Artrocker All Ages show to see how the good ship Pete is going down. And here’s a clue: she be sailing like a dream cap’n! Pull quote 2: the evolution of this band is happening gig by gig, in a way which has recently benefited the likes of Good ...
Singles for the week beginning Feb 11!
Band name: Envelopes, Pete & The Pirates, Black Francis and more Label: various indie schmindies Teaser: Black Francis is sounding all 1990s, 1984 sound like 1984, and Tricky’s old crooner Martina Topley Bird is just back from the trip-hop graveyard. What decade is this? Who knows! But let’s do the time warp regardless as Don Blandford runs us through this week...
Counter Culture 07
Band name: Rough Trade Shops Label: Rough Trade Teaser: Sophie Hall sinks her fangs into the latest round up of all things supercool thanks to the good good people of Rough Trade. Expect visitations from Let’s Wrestle, Justice, and Von Sudenfed. Von who? Read on… Pull quote 2: title of the year has to go to Dan Le Sac vs. Scroobius Pip and ‘Thou Shalt...
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