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AlbumsKing Creosote - Flick The Vs
Flick The Vs sees a snarl added to Kenny Anderson's dulcet tones, and frequent bad language spells out the fact that he's got a few things to be pissed off a... Read more »| 03 Apr 2009 -
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Filastine - Dirty Bomb
"World music" from Barcelona and beyond Read more »| 03 Apr 2009 -
AlbumsRiverboat Gamblers - Underneath The Owl
Alcohol’s hazardous qualities appear enhanced where rock bands are concerned. Riverboat Gamblers’ early predilection to ditties about bevvy enfo... Read more »| 02 Apr 2009 -
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The Olympic Symphonium - More In Sorrow Than In Anger
Second album from New Brunswick multi-instrumentalist three-piece. Read more »| 02 Apr 2009 -
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Soap & Skin - Lovetune for Vacuum
Judging by the doom and gloom pervading Anja Plaschg's debut album, it must really suck growing up on a pig farm in southern Austria. A bedroom composer sinc... Read more »| 01 Apr 2009 -
AlbumsThe Virgins - The Virgins
Five New Yorkers, styled to within an inch of their life, who sound like they were taught to play by the New York Dolls? No, it’s not Casablancas and C... Read more »| 01 Apr 2009
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Elvis Perkins In Dearland - Elvis Perkins in Dearland
After the often difficult listen that was Ash Wednesday, a to-the-bone study of the trauma of grief, it is heartening to see that musically and lyrically, an... Read more »| 31 Mar 2009 -
AlbumsButcher Boy - React Or Die
Butcher Boy's second album picks up where they left off on album number one with another exemplary effort Read more »| 30 Mar 2009 -
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Love Is All - A Hundred Things Keep Me Up At Night
Your enjoyment of A Hundred Things Keep Me Up At Night will depend largely on your tolerance of Josephine Olausson’s vocals. Love Is All’s jagged... Read more »| 30 Mar 2009 -
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The Veils - Sun Gangs
The most striking thing about The Veils’ third album is that nothing really makes an impression. While their previous outings soared from the depths of... Read more »| 30 Mar 2009 -
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Official Secrets Act - Understanding Electricity
The Official Secrets Act of 1989 is the latest revision of a Parliamentary act initiated in 1911. There have been numerous alterations made since 1911, and h... Read more »| 30 Mar 2009 -
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Caroline Weeks - Songs for Edna
Bat for Lashes collaborator Caroline Weeks releases her solo debut record, a nine-track tribute to American poet Edna St. Vincent Millay Read more »| 30 Mar 2009 -
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Eddi Reader - Love is the Way
Eddi Reader’s ninth studio album, Love Is The Way, contains more of the charismatic folk and pop songs that propelled her towards an MBE in 2006. Opene... Read more »| 30 Mar 2009 -
AlbumsSuper Furry Animals - Dark Days / Light Years
Dark Days/Light Years was not recorded in a studio by mere mortals with guitars; it was cooked up in a laboratory by third-eyed hippies with primary coloured... Read more »| 27 Mar 2009 -
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De La Mancha - Atlas
Initially starting out as merely an expressive outlet for a couple of schoolfriends with some creative urges and a few bottles of wine, De La Mancha may just... Read more »| 27 Mar 2009