luxembourgpress

angular the new cross & rip off your labels

Sun, 16 Oct 2005 13:55:40 GMT

rip off your labels

nme
"Luxembourg have enough beef to graduate into a proper rock band..."

kitten painting
"You stay away from my countryside you pop fop reprobates..."

the stereo effect
"There’s us thinking Luxembourg were neutral during the war..."

you're so old street
"The vocals are lacking the pretentious over-stylised quality of their stablemates..."

joyzine
"David Shah's miraculous trembling vocals somersault around the twinkling keyboard swirls..."

designer magazine
"Matches anything Franz Ferdinand have ever come up with..."

sounds-xp
"Tip-top face-biffing, jaw-dropping excellence..."

rock midgets
"Luxembourg provide the first, and last, outstanding moment on Rip Off Your Labels..."

indigo flow
"If you’re wondering which bands you should be heading out to see live in London at the moment then this compilation will provide the perfect guide..."

the new cross

kitten painting
"Spearmint-esque sound of the underdog..."

joyzine
"Lulls you into a false sense of bog standard indie security..."

sounds-xp
"Perfect intelligent pop..."

spun out demos & promos

Sun, 16 Oct 2005 13:27:50 GMT

high voltage
promo compilation
"We may have found a British band capable of sending all the American acts looking to our nation for influence back home..."

kathodik
promo compilation
"Nods are made to Almond, Bacharach and Cocker..."

sounds-xp
tourist information ep
"Stealing is a crime. Murder is a crime. Sting is a crime. Luxembourg languishing in the Land of the Unsigned is a crime..."

planet sound
tourist information ep
"Music this damned flirty and sexy is always in fashion..."

froggy's delight
tourist information ep
"English pop still has a bright future..."

joyzine
tourist information ep
"Success is Never Enough revels in chart-gazing synths, soaring guitars and dynamic rhythms..."

popnews
tourist information ep
"Love’s disillusionments and the desire to laugh about them in order to carry on..."

merry-go-round
progress & resistance eps
"Luminous traces of a history that is constantly updating itself, forever looking for new popstars..."

randoms

Sun, 16 Oct 2005 13:15:00 GMT

plan b
"Guitars aren’t made of wood, they’re made of dreams..."

nme
"The librarian’s loss is our gain..."

metro scotland
"As savvy, chilling and grandiose as early Roxy Music or Black Box Recorder..."

the london line
"Luxembourg’s marriage of Eighties pop and miserabilia continues to threaten a breakout from London’s toilet circuit..."

socialist worker
"None of the comparisons really describe what they’re like..."

glasswerk
"The most diverse yet equally fragmented and often sterile musical city in our country finally has a scene which has second-rate hacks all of a quiver..."

logo
"This suddenly feels like the sound of now..."

prémonition
"Dégaine et arrogance de playboys, efficacité et charisme scénique, paroles acides et mordantes comme il se doit..."

luxtalk interviews

Sun, 16 Oct 2005 12:52:46 GMT

sohostrut
"There's no room for indie credibility in these parts..."

trakmarx
"Luxembourg make me want to shag all night long. Fuck The Teardrop Explodes..."

god is in the tv
"Luxembourg are a band you can fall in love with: they have that rare ability to create their own myths and destroy them again..."

boyz
"Anthemic art-rockmusic men..."

planet sound
"Shared ideas, houses and partners..."

sounds-xp
"Just what is it with houmous?

icon
"Luxembourg are a sound for sore ears indeed..."

what the housewives don't tell you

Sun, 16 Oct 2005 11:56:57 GMT

planet sound
"A shocking indictment of the industry..."

kitten painting
"Highly-strung gentlemen dealing in the grubby romance of the everyday..."

to hell with...
"So peerless it can barely see the esplanade..."

god is in the tv
"Excellently executed and gorgeously sexual in these times of grey indie bands and poor disposable pop backdrops..."

sounds-xp
"Stabbing guitar, swooping keyboards, prolific use of cowbell, and David Shah’s best Morrissey, as smooth and intoxicating as a gallon of Baileys..."

the stereo effect
"Smacks with maturity and self-assurance..."

trakmarx
"Slam, glam - thank you, mam..."

indigo flow
"This could be the start of something big..."

you're so old street
"Boys singing about boys is always good..."

vanity project
"Indie bands used to have heart without all the earnesty, deftly covered by slight of hand and caustic wit..."

tasty
"Smiling’s for Bobby Crush, and don’t you forget it..."

joyzine
"Luxembourg, small country, ace band..."

floatation suite
"They deserve to be the mainstream anti-cool..."

foutraque
"Addictive dès les premiers accords..."

soho strut
"This is more like it..."

best kept secret

Sun, 16 Oct 2005 11:23:23 GMT

playlouder
"Luxembourg are men of beautiful cheapness, just like this record..."

independent on sunday
"The sound of a young band nobly groping for greatness..."

kitten painting
"My, how these tunes twist, turn and shimmer..."

cmu
"The ideal package to find in your stocking this Christmas..."

you're so old street
"Best Kept Secret appears to be glued into my discman..."

planet sound
"They have more class than the rest and are probably better in bed too..."

vanity project
"Lyrically inventive, and unafraid to add an electro-boot up their own foppish arse..."

trakmarx
"A sound informed by Roxy Music, early Pulp & a ton of self belief..."

god is in the tv
"The antithesis and antidote to cheesy, manufactured pop music..."

sounds-xp
"If it’s this fucking amazingly good, ye gods, what will their real debut album be like?"

designer magazine
"A musical history of their experiences so far with wit, style and originality..."

p2 magazine
"In a perfect world, Let Us Have It and Search Continues, Hope Fades would be number one forever..."

foutraque
"Un groupe à la personnalité rare, aux paroles riches, aux mélodies entraînantes ou ultrasensibles..."

luxembourg vs great britain

Sat, 15 Oct 2005 13:45:22 GMT

joyzine
"Luxembourg should no longer be hidden in brown paper bags, guilty pleasures of the devoted and converted..."

high voltage (cd single)
"Deserving a bigger audience..."

sounds-xp (cd single)
"A late, but most welcome, candidate for Single of the Year..."

kitten painting (cd single)
"Fancy footwork across the laminate flooring..."

vanity project
"Gorgeous gear as per..."

high voltage (download release)
"A cult classic hovering in the sidelines..."

trakmarx
"Luxembourg are keeping the pressure piled firmly on pop’s young pretenders with another slice of genuine quality..."

planet sound
"Unless they're eating the pets of every label A&R in Britain, how do they remain unsigned?"

vanguard online
"Arch, arching, arcing and sharp-elbowed..."

tasty
"Tuneful, bombastic, complex, warbling sing along-tastic..."

indiepop
"Un anthem ai confini dell'epico per le generazioni a venire..."

cmu
"Slinky, sensuous, sublime. And simply super..."

sounds-xp (download release)
"This has winner written all over it in permanent marker..."

kitten painting (download release)
"This is an anti-anthem, a classic pop moment of sublime release..."

losing today
"A majestically pirouetting pop opera of feel good vibes that swaggers and swerves aloofly..."

god is in the tv
"Dives and swoops like a bird above a synth indie rock seacoast..."

you're so old street
"A reminder of the days when music was the listener's entire world..."

the stereo effect
"It's a love-em or hate-em situation, but we're siding with the underdogs..."

rock midgets
"Luxembourg are a well overdue breath of fresh air..."

in the flesh - live reviews

Wed, 12 Oct 2005 13:26:27 GMT

sounds-xp - 12/11/05
"It doesn't get much better than this..."

god is in the tv - 12/11/05
"What can they do to get the recognition they deserve, now let me tell you..."

playlouder - 25/06/05
"They might as well have 'glamorous insouciance' tattooed in tiny type on their posteriors..."

kitten painting - 04/06/05
"They rattle through a set of ‘Ooh I love this one! Ooh and this one!’ songs..."

joyzine - 04/06/05
"Song after song of should-be classics..."

you're so old street - 02/06/05
"One day the world will kick itself for having missed out on all this..."

vanity project - 29/05/05
"It’s good to know that there will always be those who will keep the flame of classy pop burning..."

joyzine - 29/04/05
"It’s not surprising that their fan base are so committed - Luxembourg are a truly great band..."

sandman sheffield - 24/04/05
"I’d like to think this band will be visiting Sheffield again soon..."

noise annoys - 16/04/05
"Next time the whole city will be listening..."

god is in the tv - 09/03/05
"A triumphal band, with class to spare..."

you're so old street - 18/02/05
"The only problem with tonight's set is perhaps the number of songs missing from it..."

joyzine - 14/02/05
"Frontman David Shah pouting, gesticulating and crooning sweetly while keyboards cascade around him like fireworks..."

camden new journal - 14/02/05
"The Smiths at their most likeable with a jagged knife of electronica stabbed in their side..."

god is in the tv - 22/01/05
"Luxembourg have the strength and sound to reach into your heart..."

you're so old street - 12/01/05
"One of the best shows I've seen..."

playlouder - 12/01/05
"Flying in the face of fashion is a brave thing to do, though Luxembourg do it with such determination you cannot help admire them..."

you're so old street - 09/12/04
"Tight, focussed, and somehow both amusing and emotional..."

drowned in sound - 23/11/04
"A band entwined in its own world of sexual confusion, everyday disappointment and determination to overcome mundanity..."

playlouder - 17/09/04
"An appealing blend of the sharp and the fluffy..."

kitten painting - 07/09/04
"Precision built pop with a nasty glint in its eye..."

sounds-xp - 02/09/04
"The antithesis of all those London bands living on Stella, cheap speed and riffs rejected by the Libertines..."

planet sound - 06/08/04
"A big venue for an unsigned band to headline, but it's much too small for such charisma..."

sounds-xp - 08/07/04
"This is music of poignancy and thoughtfulness, not something to induce a meeting of razorblade and wrist..."

opposition t - 26/06/04 & 27/03/04
"Luxembourg are the beautiful child of the Suede and Pulp generations..."

joyzine - 03/06/04
"The kind of tunes that you could imagine ramming the dancefloors of indie discos up and down the country..."

sounds-xp - 15/04/04
"With guitar problems mid-song, Rob, unfazed, plonks his instrument down, and while his bandmates play on, poses around the stage with a ciggy..."

camden new journal - 27/03/04
"Luxembourg collect maximum points for originality..."

noble savage - sometime in 2003
"A fingernail away from touching the stars..."

sparkle - 29/11/02
"Lovely frontman David Shah (wearing a cute suit)..."