…a song called Libraries isn’t going to be the pagan wig out you were, in a fit of perversity, hoping for now is it?
The Maccabees – Live at Manchester Academy 1
Vocalist Orlando Weeks is practically bouncing off the walls (and his band mates) with excitement and the entire performance has a giddy feel to it
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Nancy Elizabeth – an appraisal of a Northern girl
I have been reading the Julian Cope biography ‘Head On’ recently and there is a bit in the book where he says ‘He hates music that is made to impress people’ I’ve never heard any of his records but I couldn’t agree more.
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Mum – Go Smear The Poison Ivy
Blessed Brambles, the album opener, mutates from a hesitant opening into a gloriously poppy tune with some rather strange lyrics. At least I think they sing about kissing the boys that pee into the mud.
Japrocksampler – by Julian Cope
We have plane hijackings, riots with farmers, and bassists escaping in the n.u.d.e.
Islaja – Ulual YYY
There’s some menace to Sydanten Ahmija and at times it almost recalls the kind of background jazz you might expect to find in a French bar. But only if you’re on a bad trip.
Valerie and her Week of Wonders – Lubos Fiser
It’s not everyday you can review the soundtrack album to a 1970 Czech New Wave film that recounts the dreams and hallucinations of a teenage girl as she experiences her first period and it’s not an opportunity I’m going to pass up now.
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Robert Wyatt – Comicopera
There are undoubtedly moments of genius on it. And, more disturbingly, there’s Paul Weller on it too, which is a bit like Phil Collins playing on Another Green Day, or Robert Palmer playing on Remain in Light – not right somehow.