One thing to note is that it can be a fucking quiet record; lots of passages of sound are quite content in sitting in the background.
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Kreng – The Summoner
The Soft Moon – Deeper
…what The Soft Moon do really, really well is build up a very accessible, Drury Lane sense of drama and cod-personality.
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Chastity Belt – Time to Go Home
Time To Go Home has a sharp wit and a real sense of nous that doesn’t just rely on the usual “conventions” of being in a band.
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Blanck Mass – Dumb Flesh
Minny Pops – Drastic Measures, Drastic Movement
And this deluxe reissue of their first record, Drastic Measures, Drastic Movement still has the ability to shock, annoy, and surprise.
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The Membranes – Dark Matter Dark Energy
There have been some brilliant and breathtaking “guitar records” this year. And this is one of them.
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Autopilot – Autopilot
Overall a great one for sticking on on a lazy or hungover afternoon; and you should give it time.
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Music for Drifters : Field Music at the Tyneside Cinema
From the opening scenes, it’s clear that Field Music know how to mesh the scenes in the film with appropriate music.
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Frisian fun – Rats on Rafts and The Homesick – Asteriks Leeuwarden, De Lantaarn Dokkum 24/25/4/2015.
The place just explodes and I’m reminded of my younger self watching the Stone Roses or The Pale Saints when both enjoyed their brief moments of extra terrestrial illumination in the late 80s. That good, no shit Sherlock.
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Frisk Frugt, Richard Dawson, Blaast, Vrooom!, Rottterdam, 18/4/2015
Using a peculiar hand motion as if blowing the song out onto his hand to inspect it, Dawson laid down the law with an incendiary set.
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