Rock /
Action, please!
2008 release ** "If many indie bands, for at least a year now, look to the German area and the Eighties as their only point of inspiration, Kobenhavn Store pushes higher, going towards Scandinavia, towards the ice and the pure and rarefied atmospheres of Sigur Ros or Amiina, but with a strong electronic contribution and an excellent management of the arrangement. To this attention to sound are added the pleasant influences developed by multiple listenings: they are positive influences, made of …
Regal Daylight
2004 release ** "First edition of Nick Grey's debut album: an unexpected, elegant cross between avantrock and classical music, not far from the Tindersticks' poignant laments, David Bowie's "Outside" LP and Current 93's haunted ballads. "Regal Daylight", which features the participation of Nick's father, Romanian tenor Vasile Moldoveanu, is a hypnotic, lyrical and intimate experience."
Inducing The Sleep Sphere
2002 release ** "It's virtually impossible to discuss The Land of Nod without comparing them to My Bloody Valentine, Slowdive, Spacemen 3 or a gaggle of otheratmospheric shoegazer bands that did it first."
Lanterner
2011 release ** "The debut release from Lanterner was recorded in a scummy practice pit and a high end media arts research institute. Borrowing the keys, late at night, this release was culled from live sessions, practice sessions, late night overdubs and mistakes. A quickly fastened mic in a practice space to carefully mic’d headphones in a cardboard box - techniques chosen for mood gold not textbooks. These songs Throb and Drift with a Lean Tension and pulsing, dreamt, attempt at escape(s), du…