Mann has an uncanny ability to make you feel guilty about something you’ve never even been involved with
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The Flaming Lips – And Heady Fwends
a complete brain-fuck of an album
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Wooden Horse Toy – Wooden Horse Toy
Luckily his earnest, frail personality never allows any pompous or bombastic nonsense into the mix. Concentrated, seriously wrapped up in a world of its own and certainly interesting, this record deserves a few listens.
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Wendy McNeill – For The Wolf A Good Meal
Like being in the White Witch’s troika with a load of booze & fags, or finding out that Julie Andrews was really into the Elevators, this mix of teasing and haughty permanent winter could be fun and who fancies being wholesome anyway?
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Mono – For My Parents
I half expect Sophia Loren to turn up at my door whilst this is playing, wearing a veil and saying “dahrlinkk, it iss ze vish off ze Emperor zat vee must go to Gaul”.
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Wymond Miles – Under The Pale Moon
I really like this LP, despite its hangdog air and despite it being nothing new or hip or “with it”, daddy-oh. It’s just got good songs, well presented and convincingly sung. Surely that’s enough?
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Micachu and the Shapes – Never
By this stage, the record truly is the sound of a C21st Workers Playtime and you can see what they got from hanging out with Matthew Herbert, that’s for sure.
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A Tribute to JG Ballard – Shackleton, T.A.G.C., Blanck Mass, Stellar OM Source, Bauer -Paradiso, Amsterdam 8/9/2012
There’s a quiet assurance in all that T.A.G.C. does that makes things sound easy, their slabs of shifting white noise, questioning textures and subtle rhythms create a feeling that you’d heard this sound before, and were just waiting to be reminded of it.
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Dokument + Ten Highlights
Like a bottle on the ocean with an old map in, this is a document from another space and time. On breaking the seal and inspecting the contents, some parts are recognisable some are mystifying and not readily understandable.
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The Subhuman – Planet Buddha
This record is aimed squarely at “Girls”, what with its whispered confidences and wine-bottle-by-the-sofa moralising.
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