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Angeline Liles

Angeline Liles has written 11 posts for Sonic Dice

Gig Review: Noah & The Whale

By Angeline Liles ⋅ November 18, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

[Venue: The Junction, Cambridge]
[Date: 10 November 2008]

Following their starring role in this summer’s revered Cambridge Folk Festival (for non-folkheads, it’s pretty much the biggest and best celebration of all things folksy on this British Isle), Noah & The Whale made a welcome return to Cambridge tonight and were unsurprisingly greeted by a sold-out and excitable […]

Album Review: Herman Dune

By Angeline Liles ⋅ November 5, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

[Album: Next Year In Zion]
[Label: City Slang Records]

This French duo (formerly a trio, prior to the recording of this, their tenth album) formed in 1999. Quite the prolific musicians, it’s a wonder they’ve had time to push out ten albums, what with playing in various others’ backing bands (including Kimya Dawson of Moldy Peaches fame) […]

Album Review: Those Dancing Days

By Angeline Liles ⋅ October 17, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

[Album: In Our Space Hero Suits]
[Label: Witchita Recrods]

Five bright young Swedes comprise the line-up of this perky girl band. With influences ranging from Blondie to The Shangri-La’s, this album is full to bursting with sixties-laden harmonies and a Northern Soul attitude. Not generally being a massive fan of girl bands of any musical persuasion, I’m […]

Album Review: O’ Death

By Angeline Liles ⋅ October 10, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

[Album: Broken Hymns, Limbs and Skin]
[Label: City Slang Records]

This is a troupe of musicians that certainly don’t hold back. ‘Broken Hymns, Limbs and Skin’ is the third album from O’Death, and is a fiery display of the punk-folk, jazz and bluegrass sound concocted by five blokes from New York. Accompanied by banjo, fiddle, ukulele, piano, […]

Album Review: Ra Ra Riot

By Angeline Liles ⋅ October 9, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

[Album: The Rhumb Line]
[Label: Barsuk/V2 Records]

Listening to this debut album from Ra Ra Riot is a bit similar to what I imagine attending an audio carnival would sound like. It’s a joyously frolicking diversion from the mundaneity of these autumnal grey skies. Upbeat tracks fleshed out beautifully with majestic cellos and violins, smoothly operated guitars […]

Album Review: Sleepingdog

By Angeline Liles ⋅ September 10, 2008 ⋅ One comment

[Album: Polar Life]
[Label: Gizeh Records]

“Inspired by Iceland’s fitful climate and fairy-like atmosphere”, reads a line from the press release for Sleepingdog’s second album, ‘Polar Life’. Bad impressions immediately flood my brain as it conjures up pictures of a sloppy Sigur Ros covers band with plinky-plonk instruments running under a spoken Icelandic script. Great was my […]

Album Review: Sunny Day Sets Fire

By Angeline Liles ⋅ September 2, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

[Album: Summer Palace]
[Label: IAMSOUND Records]

Sunny Day Sets Fire are an internationally-gathered collective of accomplished musicians with members from Hong Kong, Italy, Sardinia, Canada and London. ‘Summer Palace’, their first full-length album, was released last month and is a hefty fourteen tracks long.
A bright xylophone opens this album in ‘Wilderness’, an upbeat, summery display of the […]

Album Review: Port O’Brien

By Angeline Liles ⋅ August 21, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

[Album: All We Could Do Was Sing]
[Label: City Slang]

Hailing from a small Californian town, Port O’Brien began in 2005 as a folk-duo comprising of the two lead vocalists and songwriters Van Pierszalowski and Cambria Goodwin. The two share the writing equally, but are separated in doing so. During the summer months, Pierszalowski works on his […]

Album Review: Lackthereof

By Angeline Liles ⋅ August 11, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

[Album: Your Anchor]
[Label: Barsuk Records]

Pretty impressively, this is Lackthereof’s (real name Danny Seim) ninth full-length album. Less impressively, the first six were recorded at home and given out on cassette tapes to his friends. This album shares that homemade quality, having been performed, recorded and mixed by Seim in his basement. Before hearing what the […]

EP Review: Cory Chisel And The Wandering Sons

By Angeline Liles ⋅ August 6, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

[EP: Cabin Ghosts]
[Label: RCA Records]

The first thing that strikes the ears about this EP from the Wisconsin singer-songwriter, Cory Chisel, and his band is the raw sincerity in the music they are making. They are not trying to be anything other than the sound that seems to spill effortlessly from their instruments, producing songs that […]

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