MUSIC REVIEW | Si Begg Vs Slabovia 8-Bit Orchestra – The Sound Of Guts

THIS REVIEW was originally submitted to Clash magazine, but didn’t make the press, probably cos of its ferocity. For what it’s worth, Si – we do like your stuff, but this does not a good album make. Si Begg, one of those “ground-breaking”, “genre-defying”, “un-pigeon-hole-able” electronica blokes from the late ‘90s, has been roped in to [...]

MUSIC REVIEW | Play that funky music, white boy

Whitest Boy Alive Rules (Bubbles) Erlend Øye’s Whitest Boy Alive may sound like the worst band name to surface in recent years, but the self-deprecatory moniker seems somehow apt when listening to this album. A laidback funk album made by a skinny bespectacled Norwegian and his band just seems plain wrong, especially when nasty comparisons [...]