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The hives: The Black and WhiTe alBum
The hyperactive, two-tonal Swedes could have descended into farce
by now if they didn’t continue to deliver live shows and albums of an
unreasonably high standard. This, their fourth, is probably The Hives’ ‘mature’
record, but then it does have producers du jour Pharrell Williams and Jacknife
Lee helping out. And while lead single Tick Tick Boom is a typical short, sharp
fuzz-rock thunderbolt, it’s the George Clinton funk overtones of T.H.E. H.I.V.E.S
that shows Pelle & Co are walking ever-more interesting roads these days.
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The WaR on democRacy
John Pilger, Britain’s most socially
conscious documentary maker, unleashes his
first full-length release. A grim and devastating
account of life in Latin America, it considers the
false democracy offered by rapacious US-led
corporations to the disenfranchised.
FaBRiclive 36: james
album muRPhy & PaT mahoney
The LCD Soundsystem pair serve up a stellar
24-track mix for London’s premier nightspot.
It’s all very NYC, with disco and rare-groove
flavours shaping a dance collection that’s
laid back enough to enjoy in your living room.
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125: The
book cinema issue
Bridging the ever-blurring divide
between fashion mag and art book,
125 could very well be the world’s
cheapest high-end photography tome.
Clocking in at £7 for 352 pages, its
biannual dose of the world’s camera
kings and incredible unseen shots
doubles your coffee table’s class quota
in an instant. Our pick of the new
‘Cinema Issue’ is the recreation of the
Star Wars trilogy with action figures,
showing 125 has a sense of humour
as well as an eye for a great photo.
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Blood Red shoes
British music is in dire need of
an axe-wielding female to blow
away the post-Lily Allen popsters,
so step forward Laura-Mary
Carter of Brighton duo Blood
Red Shoes. More than 200 gigs
and a trail of spiky anthems over
the last year have made them
indie hot property, while next
year’s debut album on V2 should
ensure they’re an NME staple.
New single I Wish I Was Someone
Better is the ideal taster.
Kate Nash was
about to lose
the red-headed
indie-girl war…
Daniel LaRusso
hadn’t aged well
Media to keep you indoors, occupied
and away from street corners
Blue Blood
Watching posh boys beat each other up is usually reserved
for schmaltzy Bridget Jones finales, but Stevan Riley’s documentary
on the Varsity boxing match finds hidden depths in such skirmishes. As
we follow five Oxford students quite literally learning the ropes, there’s
inevitably some you pray come a cropper. But the ‘face of adversity’
laughs transcend its boxing roots to make it a true crowd-pleaser.
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exiT GhosT
book By PhiliP RoTh
It’s nearly 50 years since Roth, claimed
by many to be America’s greatest living
novelist, first dazzled the literary world
and over 30 since he introduced his
fictional alter ego Nathan Zuckerman.
Returning for one last time, Zuckerman
is now an old man, travelling back to
New York and encountering a would-be
biographer along the way. Roth once
again intertwines fact and fiction to
round off a classically entertaining
addition to the Jewish cultural canon.
PRojecT GoTham RacinG 4
game (xBox 360)
The first must-play next-gen title since Halo 3 sees the
nicest-looking 360 driving series polished up beyond
recognition. Motorbikes now compete with the cars and
the unforgiving handling has been well and truly fixed. The result?
Less a sequel, more a genuinely thrilling new driving experience.
sPideR-man TRiloGy:
dvd limiTed deluxe ediTion
The best-selling superhero franchise of all time now
arrives in six-disc box-set form. While we’re skeptical
about quite how ‘limited’ it will be, the quality of the
first two films and the extras on offer almost make
it worth sitting through the dour Spider-Man 3 again.
The GhosT By RoBeRT haRRis
Former British PM Adam Lang is holed up with his wife in
Martha’s Vineyard awaiting indictment for war crimes perpetuated
in the Middle East and commissioning his ghost-written memoirs. So
far, so textbook satirical. But as the former Neil Kinnock biographer
who had access to New Labour’s inner circle at its inception, Harris’s
take on a thinly disguised Tony Blair arrives with prescient timing.
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Genuine in-game blur, not
just a drunk cameraman
WORDS: MATT HILL, BEN MYERS
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