I’ll guess wildly and think that they’ve gone into the studio and felt a bit of pressure, and not really gone further than presenting a cleaned up version of their live shows
Chasing Rainbows – Make Love Caravan
A classic mix of droopy sixties bedroom folk pop offcuts, stitched into a new comfort blanket; a record for staring out of windows.
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Space Siren – Songs for a Dead Pilot
The sucker punch, Song For a Dead Pilot, is a feral and often primal bash which sounds like Roxy Music’s Do The Strand thrown into a tumble drier.
Incendiary go to Eurosonic / Noorderslag Day 2 Groningen 16/1/15
Why this craziness, have these teens been O’ding on frikandels again? No; it’s drummer Erik’s 18th birthday. That’s why. So we celebrate in full-on, Head On style.
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Incendiary go to Eurosonic / Noorderslag Day 1 Groningen 15/1/15
Downstairs in steamy, sweaty, sleazy Kult, Apneu’s goofy singer is wearing high heels and he’s winking at people.
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An Alternative Eurovision Odyssey – Part 4 Controversy, what controversy
Assad makes Stavros sound like Sewell and would be pilloried. A punk standard with incomprehensible lyrics would disguise this flaw, as well as his inability to sing: demonstrated by his karaoke performance of Don’t Stop Believin’ at Mugabe’s ninetieth.
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Gut und Irmler – 500 M
As ever with the things that Gudrun Gut is involved with, this is a patient and very sexy record.
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Lee Scratch Perry, Gebr. De Nobel, Leiden, 10/12/14
Welcome to de Nobel all ye weeny boppers, this is your musical poppa!
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Vin Blanc SUB071 Leiden 9/12/14
Some use music as a way (by telling others what’s ‘cool’ or ‘important’) to show how important they are. You never see these gadflies, these Osrics, on a cold Tuesday night in a converted bike shed in a Leiden squat.
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Richard’s Record Review – Samhain Part 5
Will we be digging B S Johnson & the New Brutalists in sound next year? Or the history of Enfield Cricket Club, or Iceland Frozen Foods?
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