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AlbumsDirty Projectors + Björk – Mount Wittenberg Orca
Dave Longstreth is a man with great ideas: his breakthrough album as leader of Dirty Projectors, Rise Above, was an attempt to reinterpret Black Flag’s... Read more »| 12 Jul 2010 -
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Tender Trap – Dansette Dansette
They’ll never admit it, but Tender Trap wear their influences on their sleeves. Straight from the title track’s opening reverb-drenched n... Read more »| 12 Jul 2010 -
AlbumsRich Bennett – On Holiday
Sometimes an album lands on your lap that completely baffles you. On rare, delightful occasions, you’re baffled in a wonderful way: knocked for six by ... Read more »| 07 Jul 2010 -
AlbumsThe Coral – Butterfly House
With Oasis deceased, another sixties-indebted Brit act has obligingly assumed the proffering of perpetual ‘best since their debut’ pre-release pr... Read more »| 07 Jul 2010 -
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Cats and Cats and Cats – If I'd Had An Atlas
Just when you thought the ‘tweexcore’ fad had finally wilted, along come Cats and Cats and Cats to stoke the embers. Sounding like a dishevelled ... Read more »| 07 Jul 2010 -
AlbumsThe Boy Who Trapped the Sun – Fireplace
The Boy Who Trapped the Sun apparently chose his lengthy stage name because it felt “bigger and less lonely” than ‘Colin MacLeod’. Wh... Read more »| 07 Jul 2010
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AlbumsVarious – The World Ends: Afro Rock & Psychedelia in 1970s Nigeria
In 1967, as Western teenagers were clearing their diaries for a summer of love, Nigerians were preparing for a far less peaceful revolution. The civil war en... Read more »| 05 Jul 2010 -
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Boohgaloo Zoo – Boohgaloo Zoo
Imagine a reanimated James Brown jerking around artificially in front of a backing band consisting of a Stars in Their Eyes Prince, a sober Sly Stallone and ... Read more »| 05 Jul 2010 -
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Mongo Ninja – No Cunt For Old Men
Colossal riffs, break-neck drumming, and throat-ripping vocals – these Norwegian thrashers deliver a relentless bout of fat-metal frolics and a perturb... Read more »| 05 Jul 2010 -
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Tony da Gatorra vs Gruff Rhys – The Terror of Cosmic Lonliness
Man, this is weird – but then, it was always going to be. Brazilian musician (and TV repair man) of the 'cult' variety Tony da Gatorra has invented his... Read more »| 02 Jul 2010 -
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The Young Veins – Take A Vacation!
If Pretty Odd’s prominent Beatles-isms felt like a, er, pretty odd change of direction for Panic! At The Disco, Take A Vacation! offers perspective. Th... Read more »| 02 Jul 2010 -
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Lonely Ghosts - Return From the Search Party
Despite the best efforts of day-glo horrorshow Brokencyde to taint the marriage of Chiptune-esque electronics and shrieked vocals in minds and ears forever, ... Read more »| 02 Jul 2010 -
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Conrad Vingoe – Simple Secrets
In an age where gunshots are establishing themselves as a legitimate form of percussion, Johnny Rotten advertises butter and everyone seems to have a fucking... Read more »| 02 Jul 2010 -
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Common Prayer – There Is a Mountain
The latest project of ex-Mercury Rev bassist and Hopewell founder Jason Sebastian Russo begins eponymously with commonprayer, an endearingly rickety shuffle ... Read more »| 01 Jul 2010 -
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Mitchell Museum – The Peters Port Memorial Service
Glasgow’s Mitchell Museum have been ones to watch for some time now, but the unexpected brilliance of their debut album suggests we weren’t watch... Read more »| 30 Jun 2010