Review: Treefight for Sunlight show at Botanique

The copy of Treefight for Sunlight's debut album A Collection of Vibrations for Your Skull that I bought ahead of the band's show in Brussels on Tuesday this week has a promotional sticker quoting a review from The Guardian that presents this four-piece from Denmark as "one of the most glorious things we've heard this year", and I couldn't agree more.

TFS's first musical effort has influences that go from classical music to the West Coast melodies epitomized till today by the Beach Boys, and it can take the credit for being a piece of work that, while reverberating with a retro echo, still sounds furiously contemporary. As it is the case of She & Him, my favourite new band making "old" music, the music of TFS has that rare quality of agelessness.

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Concert review: French Horn Rebellion-Hercules and Love Affair

Back in December 2009, I posted an entry in the blog about Brooklyn-based duo French Horn Rebellion, in which I argued that they might be the band everybody would talk about in 2010. Since then, I've been thoroughly following their steps but they had remained elusive in their tour dates. Last night I could finally attend one of their concerts, where I also had a chance to talk to Robert Perlick-Molinari, the band's lead vocalist and French horn virtuoso.

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MGMT to perform in Brussels

It is still too early to assess the real impact of an album which was released only in 2007, but I think nobody can, 3 years later, challenge the fact that MGMT's Oracular Spectacular is a defining moment of the 21 century's first decade's musical landscape.

The first listening of gems like Time to Pretend, Electric Feel or the glorious Kids had for me this rare quality of unknown familiarity reserved to instant classics.

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