It’s a funny old game designed to provoke column inches – much as I’m doing now.
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Outsider – Understanding EP
“The line “Wipe that ginger smile off your face” has to be the most obviously personal insult thrown in rock.”
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John Francis & Imposters – The Earnest Manboy Suite in E Major
To be blunt this album is around thirteen minutes of music and five minutes of typing noises.
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Mercury Rev – Paradiso, Amsterdam – 8/6/2005
An astonishing, awe inspiring journey.
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The Immortal Lee County Killers 3 – These Bones will Rise to Love You Again
If last CD, ‘Love Unbolts the Dark’, was a meal at a four starrestaurant, this is a Jacobian feast.
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Echo & The Bunnymen – Siberia
The album also has a rejuvenated feel to it, and as such, doesn’t half give me the feeling that it closely resembles Crocodiles in spirit.
The Haldern Pop Festival 2005 – Part 1
Oh yes, that’s starting to look like a tent now
The Jim Yoshii Pile-Up – Picks Us Apart
The problem I now have is that I know why he sounds so bloody pissed-off, and I’m not convinced it’s any of my business.
The Raveonettes – Pretty In Black
a musical gem
Richard Hawley – Coles Corner
There’s something really special about Richard Hawley, but you have to really give him your time to appreciate it properly.