Claire Biddles

1 month ago | thequietus.com | Patrick Clarke |Claire Biddles

“It sounded like a really exciting opportunity, and then as soon as I got into it I kind of resented the process, because it’s so difficult,” says Tyler Hyde of Black Country, New Road, of narrowing down her favourite records to just 13 choices. She may be only 26, but she has already amalgamated several lifetimes’ worth of influences and taste diversions – from off-kilter 1970s singer-songwriters to millennial R&B.

2 months ago | thewire.co.uk | Claire Biddles

Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross Queer OST Sony Soundtracks DL In William S Burroughs’s final diary entry, dated two days before his death in 1997, the surrealist iconoclast recalls a friend referring to him as the saddest man in the world. “How can a man who sees and feels be other than sad,” he writes.

2 months ago | msn.com | Claire Biddles

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2 months ago | theguardian.com | Claire Biddles

Motionless in White have the commendable quality of a stadium-headlining band playing a 2,000-capacity theatre. Formed almost 20 years ago in Scranton, Pennsylvania, the metalcore five-piece lay it on thick from the off, with dancing girls, pyrotechnics and a wall of Blade Runner visuals to match the colossal riffs of recent single Meltdown. Lead vocalist Chris “Motionless” Cerulli is darkly handsome in a sleek black coat, incongruously low-key compared to his corpse paint-wearing bandmates.

2 months ago | thequietus.com | John Doran |Claire Biddles

It starts with a loop of three strikes on a floor tom – a drumbeat rich with connotations of mystical authority and ritual. A clear voice joins in, looping quotidian words in an unnerving sequence: “Doctor/ Doctor/ Doctor/ Doctor/ Hold your/ Hold your/ Hold your/ Hold your”. Then, as the linguistic spell unfurls, there’s a phrase on a cymbal and a ripple on a snare – a deft and thorough process of examination, as though every single element of a drum kit is being turned around and tested.