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Feb 09 2012
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MusicOMH: David’s Lyre – Picture Of Our Youth

Picture Of Our Youth was an album that almost never got released. Paul Dixon, aka David’s Lyre, put out an EP called In Arms in February 2011 and the plan was follow that up with an LP on by the summer. That didn’t happen and his relationship with his label ended just before Christmas. The 22-year-old, however, now has the freedom to release his music on his own terms. Thus, his debut is unveiled via a pay-what-you-want model on Bandcamp.

Read the rest of this review and stream the album at MusicOMH.

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Feb 06 2012
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MusicOMH: Young Magic – Melt

Young Magic are a very well-travelled trio of musicians. Singer and producer Isaac Emmanual has ventured across Mexico and Europe from his native Australia and so has fellow countryman Michael Italia. They are joined by Indonesian-born vocalist Melati Malay and have now settled in New York City. Their debut, Melt, is even more exotic sounding than their background story since it contains recordings from some 10 different countries and takes its influences from an eclectic range of genres, from psychedelia to hip-hop and UK garage. This serves to give the listener the impression that this is going to be a record full of variety with no one track the same.

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Feb 06 2012
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MusicOMH: James Levy and the Blood Red Rose – Pray to Be Free

For James Levy, Pray To Be Free is another crack at success that he didn’t achieve with previous band Levy. After that moniker was put to bed, he went through his archive of songs and recruited Allison Pierce (The Pierces) to duet with him. The resulting LP, released under the name of James Levy & The Blood Red Rose and produced by Coldplay bassist Guy Berryman, is a concise and fairly straightforward attempt at recreating the magic of the orchestral pop of the ’60s.

Read the rest of this review at MusicOMH.

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Feb 06 2012
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The Daily Blot: BBC Sport and the dilemma of change

A while ago BBC News redesigned its news website and it’s fair to say it received a lot of mocking at the time, not least from me. But, in the end, everyone got used to it and that was the end of that.

Now those same people are going to have a whole lot more of getting-used-to-new-things-they-don’t-like after BBC Sport relaunched this past week. The new design puts more emphasis on the corporation’s video/audio output in preparation for (according to the BBC) a busy year of sports coverage – Euro 2012, the London Olympics etc. – which is reasonable logic but no excuse to go overboard on the yellow (insert your own Coldplay-reference joke here) and for a top navigation bar that pointlessly changes colour when the cursor hovers over it.

Read more on The Daily Blot.

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Feb 02 2012
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The Daily Blot: How the Daily Mail rules the web

It was announced this week by tracking service comScore that the Daily Mail is now the leading online newspaper in the world. In December it managed to get 45.3m visitors, therefore overtaking the New York Times (44.8m).

Of course, this news caused endless moaning on Twitter and other social networks about how unbelievable it is that such a morally dubious (that’s putting it lightly) newspaper can be the most popular on the web. Are those people really wondering why it’s the most popular? It’s not like it’s a challenging conundrum.

Read the rest of this at the Daily Blot.

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