Our musical present seems to be a continuous re-digestion of the sweetmeats from the past. And, as with anything, some days it’s great and on others it can lead to a whole lot of bellyache.
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John T Gast – Excerpts
I think this is going to be one of those LPs that start to nag away at you over time.
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Guantanamo Baywatch – Darling… It’s Too Late
It all sounds like the soundtrack for a mashed up hop in a school. Very, very predictable but really, really enjoyable.
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Mourn – Mourn
Mourn see slackness as something to be eradicated; cut OUT. Even the song called Squirrel (about squirrels I presume) sounds like a band of teenage Visigoths having a booze up.
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Moon Duo – Shadow of the Sun
Quite possibly the most inconsequential review I’ve had to write on this magazine. You really don’t need me to say that you’ll dig it if you dig their other records.
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Public Service Broadcasting – The Race for Space
Good stuff, and a definite kick on. Still; I do wonder what the Orb or The Barmy Army would have done with this material.
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Vlasta Popić – Kvadrat
Pop and rock is a game and it is entertainment. But it’s so great to hear a band that aren’t afraid of being themselves.
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Dead Neanderthals – Endless Voids
It thunders and groans around the stratosphere like a lost, pissed up Jotun looking for the last bus to Blackpool.
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The Ex, WOLVON, Gebr de Nobel, Leiden, 5/3/15
The gig was so good that by the end they were roared back for more. Punks? Encore? Yep. This is Leiden, anything goes.
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Incendiary listen to music with Rats on Rafts
I don’t think that a lot of people will understand what we’ve done, but you know what, this is a record that will survive, long after all the other stuff around has been forgotten. I am convinced of that.
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