They make me feel like I’m participating in another era of music… a time when it mattered what you did and what you created.
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Politburo – The Oldest Empire EP
Politburo’s sound is encrusted with the dirt of ages, a filthy fur coat adorned with heraldic raiment; a jewel-encrusted hand that nevertheless displays chapped and burnt fingernails…
Steve Reid Ensemble – Daxaar
Steve Reid, some dude. A brief history may read thus; “Chucked in jail for draft dodging the ‘Nam, forty years or so of playing with (amongst others) Fela Kuti, Guy Warren, Miles Davies and Sun Ra”.
Junior Boys – Last Exit
Somehow the ghost of Billy Mackenzie hangs over this release. Wild And Lonely must have been a template for their sound.
The Pyramids – S/T
Incredibly the primal howls on Derdang Derdang didn’t satisfy Sam Windett or Mark Cleveland enough. During the Derdang Derdang recording they decided to find the time to build a studio in a barn and bash out this sonic Golem
Georgie James – Places
It’s pleasant, eager to please stuff for sure, but the songs work in a way that doesn’t make you wish the sentiment redolent in, say, Macca-styled work-outs as Cake Parade would burn and writhe in hell forever
Pram – The Moving Frontier
I just can’t describe the whole of this album with the reverence it deserves; it’s too much of a headfuck
The Royal We – S/T
…a tinny, dreadfully unholy mix of standard Scottish twee pop, Paradieswarts-period Amon Duul and Fairport – a Fairport if they dropped all the medieval stuff and sung about shoes and make up.
Jacob Olausson – Moonlight Farm
…it really is as if we are stuck in an enchanted farm on a lonely moor and these sounds are coming out of the walls to disturb us…
YeaSayer – All Hour Cymbals
it sounds as if (by a wonderful mischance) The Pretty Things had been asked to write the music for (terrible musical) Hair. It’s utterly classic stuff.