The High Llamas
Sean O’Hagan’s High Llamas have been grazing the narrow field of ’60s revivalism for years – it’s 13 since they released the album that’s widely seen as their masterpiece ‘Gideon Gaye’ – so it’s fair to say that they’ve got...
Dublin Vicar St.
It's not an uncommon opinion that The High Llamas' records should include footnotes on the evolution of '60s Brazilian music or a step-by-step guide to the great proto-electronicists or a thesis on the sonic parallels between Brian Wilson and...
Buzzle Bee
There has to be a point to The High Llamas, doesn't there? Can it really suffice to say that marrying early '70s Beach Boys bossa nova to Stereolab jazz-pop is such a great idea that we will gladly accept album after album from Sean O'Hagan that...
Glasgow Barrowlands
There's a fine line between simple fandom and hand-wringing hero-worship. Sean O'Hagan - chief duffer with The High Llamas and rabidly loyal Brian Wilson disciple - has trodden it more than most. Indeed, his band's decade-long...
Snowbug
The sexy librarian, the saturnine professor inviting sweet young things in for Madeira, the nuclear physicist with the 'come up and see my warhead' smile - there's no reason why academic pop should be wrapped in dust jackets and cardigans. Yet...
London W1 Improv Club
Hanging out with Stereolab can do frightening things to a man. But at least, until now, SEAN O'HAGAN still appeared to be singing love songs rather than 'droobs' about dialectical materialism (I made that word up to be futuristic and...
Lollo Rosso
NEVER KNOWING WHEN ENOUGH'S enough, that's Sean O'Hagan's problem. Having taken his infatuation with the symphonic intricacies of The Beach Boys to almost clinically insane levels, on his last album he finally moved The High Llamas into new(ish)...
