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Backwater (album)
''Backwater'' is the first studio album by Australian music duo Kllo. It was released on 20 October 2017. Critical reception At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average score out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 76, based on 8 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews". Ashley Hampson of ''Exclaim'' described the album as "a mature, thoughtful project that explores and attempts to reconcile the ideas of isolation and vulnerability with comfort and familiarity." William Sutton of ''PopMatters'' wrote, "There is a strong stylistic motif that carries through, but within this, there is a subtle exploration of sounds and styles, which only an album format would allow, with touches of '90s R&B, UK garage, electronica, and sultry pop all evident." James Kilpin of ''Clash (magazine), Clash'' stated that "Tracks like 'Last Yearn' and 'Too Fast' see them reach new levels of delicacy, with club influences more prominent elsewhere, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kllo
Kllo (pronounced "Kl-oh"), formerly known as Klo, is an Australian music duo from Melbourne. It consists of vocalist Chloe Kaul and producer Simon Lam. History As a child, Chloe Kaul began writing songs with an acoustic guitar. At the age of about 14, she began recording her songs. Kaul's older cousin, Simon Lam, went to college for jazz drumming. He later became interested in electronic music. At the suggestion of Lam's mother, Kaul and Lam began making music together. The duo's debut EP, ''Cusp'', was released in 2014. The follow-up EP, ''Well Worn'', was released in 2016. The duo released the first studio album, '' Backwater'', in 2017. At Metacritic Metacritic is a website that review aggregator, aggregates reviews of films, TV shows, music albums, video games and formerly, books. For each product, the scores from each review are averaged (a weighted arithmetic mean, weighted average). M ..., the album received an average score of 76 out of 100, based on 8 reviews, indic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The 405 (magazine)
''The 405'' was an independent online magazine based in London, concentrating on music and popular culture. It reported primarily on independent music, film, art, technology and fashion. It published independent music reviews, features, interviews, and media. It was founded in 2008 by Oliver Primus, who was editor until the site closed down. Its first article was published on 28 April 2008. The webzine's name derives from a song on Death Cab For Cutie's ''We Have the Facts and We're Voting Yes'', which itself is a reference to I-405 in Seattle, Washington. The webzine has partnered with festivals such as Green Man, Iceland Airwaves and Le Guess Who?. ''The 405'' has been recognised by a number of publications such as the BBC, '' Clash'', ''The Daily Telegraph'', ''The Guardian'', ''Pitchfork'', Stereogum, ''The Independent'' and ''NME''. ''The 405'' also publishes music premieres, exclusive live performances, podcast A podcast is a program made available in digital form ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2017 Debut Albums
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Kllo Albums
Kllo (pronounced "Kl-oh"), formerly known as Klo, is an Australian music duo from Melbourne. It consists of vocalist Chloe Kaul and producer Simon Lam. History As a child, Chloe Kaul began writing songs with an acoustic guitar. At the age of about 14, she began recording her songs. Kaul's older cousin, Simon Lam, went to college for jazz drumming. He later became interested in electronic music. At the suggestion of Lam's mother, Kaul and Lam began making music together. The duo's debut EP, ''Cusp'', was released in 2014. The follow-up EP, ''Well Worn'', was released in 2016. The duo released the first studio album, ''Backwater'', in 2017. At Metacritic, the album received an average score of 76 out of 100, based on 8 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews". The duo released the second studio album, ''Maybe We Could'', in 2020. At Metacritic, the album received an average score of 65 out of 100, based on 4 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews". Members * Chl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrei Eremin
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Junkee
Junkee is an Australian popular culture and news website run by new media company Junkee Media. It covers various topics including film, university, food, TV, politics, travel, career, health and Internet culture. Its target demographic is 18- to 29-year-olds. Junkee was launched in March 2013 by Sound Alliance, now known as Junkee Media Junkee Media, formerly known as Sound Alliance, is a digital media company based in Australia. According to the company, Junkee Media's websites attract a monthly audience of over 2 million unique browsers. Nearly 70 per cent of the website's tr .... Its founding editors were Steph Harmon and Rob Moran. It was voted the Mumbrella Media Brand of the Year in 2014's Mumbrella Awards. References External links * {{Official website, http://junkee.com/ Australian news websites ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Exclaim
''Exclaim!'' is a Canadian music and entertainment publisher based in Toronto, which features in-depth coverage of new music across all genres with a special focus on Canadian and emerging artists. The monthly Exclaim! print magazine publishes 7 issues per year, distributing over 103,000 copies to over 2,600 locations across Canada. The magazine has an average of 361,200 monthly readers and their website, exclaim.ca, has an average of 675,000 unique visitors a month. History ''Exclaim!'' began as a discussion among campus and community radio programmers at Ryerson's CKLN-FM in 1991. It was started by then-CKLN programmer Ian Danzig, together with other programmers and Toronto musicians. The goal of the publication was to support great Canadian music that was otherwise going unheralded. The group worked through 1991 to produce their first issue in April 1992, with monthly issues being produced since. Ian Danzig has been the publisher of the magazine since its start. James Keast ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
XLR8R
''XLR8R'' (pronounced "accelerator") is a website that covers music, culture, style, and technology. It was originally also a print magazine. History and profile ''XLR8R'' was founded as a newsprint zine in 1993 by publisher Andrew Smith in Seattle. It has offices in San Francisco and New York City. While ''XLR8R''’s initial focus was on electronic music, it has widened its scope to include indie rock, hip-hop, and reggae/ dancehall music as well as related trends in style, art, fashion, and technology. ''XLR8R'' was published 10 times per year and distributed internationally. Special issues included a Music Technology issue, a year-end "Best Of" issue, and an entire issue devoted to the music scene of a particular city (Berlin, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago, New York City, etc.). Subscribers receive ''Incite'', a free monthly CD of tracks hand-picked by the magazine's editors. Standout features of the publication include "Audiofile," a collection of short pieces on u ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
PopMatters
''PopMatters'' is an international online magazine of cultural criticism that covers aspects of popular culture. ''PopMatters'' publishes reviews, interviews, and essays on cultural products and expressions in areas such as music, television, films, books, video games, comics, sports, theater, visual arts, travel, and the Internet. History ''PopMatters'' was founded by Sarah Zupko, who had previously established the cultural studies academic resource site PopCultures. ''PopMatters'' launched in late 1999 as a sister site providing original essays, reviews and criticism of various media products. Over time, the site went from a weekly publication schedule to a five-day-a-week magazine format, expanding into regular reviews, features, and columns. In the fall of 2005, monthly readership exceeded one million. From 2006 onward, ''PopMatters'' produced several syndicated newspaper columns for McClatchy-Tribune News Service. By 2009 there were four different pop culture related col ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pitchfork (website)
''Pitchfork'' (formerly ''Pitchfork Media'') is an American online music publication (currently owned by Condé Nast) that was launched in 1995 by writer Ryan Schreiber as an independent music blog. Schreiber started Pitchfork while working at a record store in suburban Minneapolis, and the website earned a reputation for its extensive coverage of indie rock music. It has since expanded and covers all kinds of music, including pop. Pitchfork was sold to Condé Nast in 2015, although Schreiber remained its editor-in-chief until he left the website in 2019. Initially based in Minneapolis, Pitchfork later moved to Chicago, and then Greenpoint, Brooklyn. Its offices are currently located in One World Trade Center alongside other Condé Nast publications. The site is best known for its daily output of music reviews but also regularly reviews reissues and box sets. Since 2016, it has published retrospective reviews of classics, and other albums that it had not previously review ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paste (magazine)
''Paste'' is a monthly music and entertainment digital magazine, headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, with studios in Atlanta and Manhattan, and owned by Paste Media Group. The magazine began as a website in 1998. It ran as a print publication from 2002 to 2010 before converting to online-only. History The magazine was founded as a quarterly in July 2002 and was owned by Josh Jackson, Nick Purdy, and Tim Regan-Porter. In October 2007, the magazine tried the " Radiohead" experiment, offering new and current subscribers the ability to pay what they wanted for a one-year subscription to ''Paste''. The subscriber base increased by 28,000, but ''Paste'' president Tim Regan-Porter noted the model was not sustainable; he hoped the new subscribers would renew the following year at the current rates and the increase in web traffic would attract additional subscribers and advertisers. Amidst an economic downturn, ''Paste'' began to suffer from lagging ad revenue, as did other magazine pub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Line Of Best Fit
''The Line of Best Fit'' is an independent online magazine based in London, concentrating on new music. It publishes independent music reviews, features, interview, and media. Founded by Richard Thane in February 2007 and currently edited by Paul Bridgewater, the webzine's name derives from a song on Death Cab For Cutie's ''You Can Play These Songs with Chords''. Album reviews by the webzine are used for music review aggregate sites AnyDecentMusic? and Metacritic. ''The Line of Best Fit'' also publishes music premieres, exclusive live performances, podcast A podcast is a program made available in digital format for download over the Internet. For example, an episodic series of digital audio or video files that a user can download to a personal device to listen to at a time of their choosing ...s, and playlists. The webzine has its own record label, Best Fit Recordings, and since 2015, has hosted its own annual music festival in London, the Five Day Forecast. It also ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
