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AlbumsAne Brun – It All Starts With One
A couple of years ago, a Cyndi Lauper cover for a Sky HD ad looked like it just might break the stalemate scenario whereby Norwegian-born, Sweden-residing An... Read more »| 31 Oct 2011 -
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M+A – things.yes
The ‘M’ of ‘M+A’ is Michele Ducci, the ‘A’ is Alessondro Degli Angioli, but the ‘plus’ affixing them is less ... Read more »| 31 Oct 2011 -
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Captain Quentin – Instrumental Jet Set
It’s hard to get a handle on Captain Quentin’s eclectic sound; maybe it’s a cultural disconnect (the band hails from Italy), or maybe the... Read more »| 31 Oct 2011 -
AlbumsWooden Wand and the Briarwood Virgins – Briarwood
James Jackson Toth, the phenomenally-prolific songwriter oft-known as Wooden Wand, recorded Briarwood in Alabama, and boy, does it show. This is Toth’s... Read more »| 28 Oct 2011 -
AlbumsPortugal. The Man – In the Mountain, In the Cloud
In the Mountain, In the Cloud is Portugal. The Man’s sixth album in six years (seventh if you count acoustic miniature Majestic Majesty), and though th... Read more »| 28 Oct 2011 -
AlbumsThe Miserable Rich – Miss You In the Days
That the Miserable Rich have an original sound is apparent from the first few sea-shanty notes of Laid Up In Lavender. Third album, Miss You In The Days, ... Read more »| 27 Oct 2011
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Johnny Foreigner – Johnny Foreigner Vs. Everything
With each album, Johnny Foreigner seem to find it harder and harder to relinquish material: their thirteen-track debut seemed the optimum length for such hig... Read more »| 27 Oct 2011 -
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The Fall – Ersatz G.B.
Having created two essential Fall albums in recent times (last year's Your Future Our Clutter and 2008's Imperial Wax Solvent), Mark E Smith's current l... Read more »| 27 Oct 2011 -
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Magazine – No Thyself
Boasting a résumé which includes founding seminal punk icons The Buzzcocks before dropping out to lead the post-punk forays of cult heroes Maga... Read more »| 26 Oct 2011 -
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Marble Valley – Breakthrough
Having ex-Pavement and Silver Jews drummer Steve West at the helm has consistently led globe-spanning collective Marble Valley towards the slacker cool of hi... Read more »| 25 Oct 2011 -
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Lou Reed & Metallica – Lulu
A collaboration between Velvet Underground founder Lou Reed and thrash pioneers Metallica is indeed as bizarre as it sounds. Read: Lulu is a 90 minute concep... Read more »| 24 Oct 2011 -
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Sandro Perri – Impossible Spaces
Sandro Perri – best known for his work under the Polmo Polpo moniker – combines relaxing, intimate folk and long, meandering instrumental section... Read more »| 24 Oct 2011 -
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Sonic Youth – Hits Are For Squares
Hits Are For Squares sees a gallery of pop culture's most credible Generation X-ers chipping in with their nomination for Sonic Youth's most killer anti-cla... Read more »| 24 Oct 2011 -
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Tom Waits – Bad As Me
Tom Waits' music does what all great art should, it creates worlds. His is a universe as vivid and colourful as any film despite the fact they’re birth... Read more »| 24 Oct 2011 -
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Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds – Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds
Noel Gallagher spoke recently of the follow up to his first solo album, promising an experimental collaboration with FSOL's psychedelic arm, Amorphous Androg... Read more »| 19 Oct 2011