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JB Stereo
Joy Williams
Venus
Geoff Barrow &
Ben Salisbury
Ex Machina OST
Like A Storm
Awaken The Fire
The Internet
Ego Death
Joy Division
Closer
Refused
Freedom
Soak
Before We Forgot
How To Dream
Son Lux
Bones
Led Zeppelin
Coda
Beau Monga
Beau
50 JULY 2015 JB Hi-Fi
visit THIS MONTH at MUSIC
D ance music is
usually seen as a
young person’s
game – but with club
culture now in its third
decade, some of the
genre’s most famous
practitioners are proving
that age is no barrier
when it comes to making
innovative grooves.
This month sees
the release of a terrific
new album from dance
veterans the Chemical
Brothers (see the review
on page 46), the latest
in a number of iconic
‘90s acts back with a
vengeance this year. Last month, saw the
return of another pioneering UK act Leftfield,
while earlier in the year, we saw new albums
from Prodigy and former Orbital man Paul
Hartnoll, who now works under the moniker
8.58. Incidentally, as you can see below,
newcomers Sleaford Mods – who guest on
both the Prodigy and Leftfield albums – are
not exactly spring chickens either (OK they are
hardly your typical dance outfit either, but we
can’t wait for their new album, which is due
next month).
And let’s not forget that Aphex Twin’s
triumphant comeback Syro was one of the
critical smashes of 2014’, or that Underworld’s
Karl Hyde last year issued two new albums
with Brian Eno. It’s good to see that these
now middle-age ravers are still going strong;
let’s just hope their new works also reawaken
younger clubbers to the
ground-breaking beats
of their earlier works.
On the flip side, metal
has always been a genre
which has favoured
the veterans. This year,
we've already seen great
comebacks from the likes
of Faith No More,
Muse and The Darkness.
And in September, it’s
going to get a whole lot
better, with new records
due from Iron Maiden,
and also Slayer.
Repentless is the
speed metal mavens'
11th studio set and was
produced by hard rock maestro Terry Date,
whose credits include Deftones, Smashing
Pumpkins, Slipknot, Korn and Bring Me The
Horizon. The album’s title track is the first
single and is a tribute to Slayer founding
member
Jeff Hanneman, who died in 2013.
Meanwhile, The Book Of Souls is British
legends Iron Maiden’s first ever studio
double album, recorded in Paris with their
longstanding producer Kevin ‘Caveman’ Shirley
in late 2014. With the songwriting credits
shared among the entire band, it’s shaping
up to be one of the metal events of the year.
And with Eagles Of Death Metal also surfacing
with some new material, the second half of
2015 should be just as good as the first for
hard rock aficionados.
JB LIstener
MIDDLE AGE RAVE!
Beau Monga
Chemical Brothers
The pioneering dance acts of the '90s are just getting better with age.
8.58
Sleaford Mods