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The new Serpentine pavilion has finally been unveiled, fun times in Hyde Park from Wei Wei and Herzog & de Meuron
Take a look at http://www.huhmagazine.co.uk/3822/herzog-and-de-meuron-and-ai-weiweis-serpentine-pavilion-unveiled
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NPR are currently providing you with an exclusive first listen of the new Ed Sharpe And The Magnetic Zeros album, Here.
It’s clear how the group have advanced since their earliest album. Here presents an outfit that are more together and producing a more complete sound whilst still maintaining their ragged gypsy-esque edge. The outcome of which appears to fall somewhere between Johnny Cash and Gogol Bordello.
There’s no track that stands out on this record as clearly as “Home” did on the preceding album but “That’s What’s Up” comes pretty close and the proceeding “I Don’t Wanna Pray” holds the reoccurring driving double bass and full harmonies that made people fall in love with the frankly peculiar band in the fast place. There’s upbeat, downbeat and a whole lot of Christian lyrics.
The album’s good, not great, but good. Honestly it would be hard for an outfit like Ed Sharpe etc. to create a great album, they’re just too odd, there’s not a mass appeal or marketability or even room for total originality. But that’s why we love them, they’re just one of those fucking weird bands man.
Head to [ http://www.npr.org/2012/05/20/152292529/first-listen-edward-sharpe-and-the-magnetic-zeros-here ] to listen to the entire album.
To Observe.
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It seems like the New York Frieze Art Fair will be interesting to say the least…
