Afterwards autographs are signed and people can go off and practise dance moves in front of their mirror. Not that I am in any way decrying that. It’s just as it should be.
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CoCoRosie – 3voor12 Studios Amsterdam 22/02/07
Someone is letting extra people in… Or maybe it’s the usual story that 3voor12 couldn’t organise the veritable piss up in a brewery at Desmets studios
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Fanfare Ciocarlia – Paard van Troje, Den Haag 28/02/07
The band respond, soloing wildly, hitching up their pants (did I tell you about the fabbo range of chain-store pants on display? Never have chain-store regulation grey pants looked so fucking punk)…
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Various Scottish Artists and Writers – Ballads of the Book
In the words of Roddy Woomble from Idlewild; “the idea for this album was to see if these poems, which had their own worlds written into them, could mean something different when interpreted by another voice”. Well let me tell you, this CD is a triumphant justification of that idea.
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CoCoRosie – The Adventures of Ghosthorse and Stillborn
The production gives this release a real kick into the stratosphere. It exemplifies the sound of a band ready to meet the general public head on.
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Alex Delivery – Star Destroyer
This is a weird but utterly brilliant record, and I’d encourage you to investigate without delay
The Sugarettes – Sugarettecity EP
You used to get stuff like this on Creation Records; this is a classic EP, four tracks, each a perfect pop song in it’s own right; exciting, funny, naïve and with enough charm to stop fights.
Hauschka – Versions of the Prepared Piano
I know a piano remix LP of leftfield ambience is an odd choice for many, but really; this LP is a must have for cool cats everywhere
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Tarwater – Spider Smile
Really, what do this lot put in their bedtime cocoa?
Forget Cassettes – Salt
If you like And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead, then you should like this LP, if only because of the history of cross fertilization of musicians between the two bands.