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Yeah, they like traditional song structures, but only up to a point. Basically, that’s been done and so they want to make the listening experience more complex, more challenging. Think Radiohead. Think Califone.
Yo La Tengo – Prisoners of Love
Jimmy Chamberlain Complex – Life Begins Again
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It’s never less than interesting and at times you just have to applaud the musicianship, but it does seem to go on for ever.
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Marmaduke Duke – The Magnificent Duke
David Sylvian – the Good Son vs the Only Daughter
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The little drawing of him pushing a shopping trolley through pine woods should, for you, the reader, conjour up images of the music contained on this CD far more effectively than my lamentable scribbling.
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Rick Moody and One Ring Zero
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Come to think of it, I could get arrested for listening to this…
Poxy – Poxy
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Master Cafeine is, amongst other things, a “chick with a dick and a guy with lipstick”.
Vic Du Monte’s Idiot Prayer – Prey for the City
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Hmm. Mr Du Monte, I fear you are taking your attentions to this lady far too seriously.
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Telepop Musik – Angel Milk
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The type of thing you’d listen to on a Sunday morn after a hard nights’ clubbing back in the nineties.
A Hawk and a Hacksaw – Darkness at Noon
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Any album filled with accordions and castanets is OK by me, especially if a mariachi oompah band accompanies them as occurs on Pastelka On the Train.
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