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Pissed Jeans - King of Jeans
Pissed Jeans are pissed off. Pissed off that they're becoming the white collar drones they swore to Tyler Durden they’d never be. Pissed off about havi... Read more »| 03 Aug 2009 -
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Nodzzz - Nodzzz
For some, music is a very serious subject. Just ask your average self-harming, old-school Nine Inch Nails fan or the straight-edge guys that tossed coffee on... Read more »| 03 Aug 2009 -
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InMe - Herald Moth
Having existed for some 13 years and counting, InMe’s fourth full length follows on from Daydream Anonymous, the Essex quartet's most critically acclai... Read more »| 31 Jul 2009 -
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The xx – xx
If ‘spectral pop’ is to be the tag that follows London quartet The xx and their debut album, then they can probably rest easy as it’s not e... Read more »| 30 Jul 2009 -
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James Yorkston & The Big Eyes Family Players - Folk Songs
A deliberate reaction to recent folk-mutations, Folk Songs sees James Yorkston take time out from his work with The Athletes to record eleven traditional tra... Read more »| 30 Jul 2009 -
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Sir Vincent Lone - Troubadour Heart
Jackie Leven kills off his musical pseudonym Sir Vincent Lone and consequently produces a ‘posthumous’ album that’s actually better than th... Read more »| 30 Jul 2009
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Yim Yames - A Tribute To George Harrison
It may appeal most to devoted My Morning Jacket fans, but this six song requiem for George Harrison deserves a wider audience. Recorded solo and acousticall... Read more »| 29 Jul 2009 -
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Lovvers - OCD Go Go Go Girls
The plot of Dan Brown’s forthcoming crime-against-literature/bestseller is top secret, but I reckon I’ve figured out the subject of investigation... Read more »| 28 Jul 2009 -
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Jack Rose and the Black Twig Pickers - Jack Rose and the Black Twig Pickers
With the recent resurgence in nu-folk (Sufjan Stevens, Devendra Banhart), alt-folk (Iron and Wine) and anti-folk (David Cronenberg’s Wife), you’... Read more »| 27 Jul 2009 -
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Jay Reatard - Watch Me Fall
Despite spending his teens in lo-fi garage-punk bands, Jay Reatard’s solo work is unashamedly pop. There are no attempts to undermine the hooks running... Read more »| 27 Jul 2009 -
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The Cave Singers - Welcome Joy
The word may carry all sorts of unsavoury connotations, but a makeover isn’t always such a bad thing. Once members of various underachieving Seat... Read more »| 27 Jul 2009 -
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The Bookhouse Boys - The Bookhouse Boys
“A soundtrack for a film that doesn’t exist” is up there with “voice of a generation” in the big book of irksome review clich&e... Read more »| 24 Jul 2009 -
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Chali 2na - Fish Outta Water
Impressively diverse debut from former J5 man Read more »| 24 Jul 2009 -
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Duke Garwood - The Sand That Falls
Duke Garwood is no stranger to out-there assignments. The South Londoner’s meandering career has seen him add guitar embellishment to The Orb’s d... Read more »| 23 Jul 2009 -
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Antoni Maiovvi - Shadow of the Blood Stained Kiss
The soundtrack to an '80s Italian sci-fi flick that never was, Shadow of the Blood Stained Kiss is a fantastic example of retrofuturism: taking pleasure in w... Read more »| 23 Jul 2009