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The Saints – Imperious Delirium
“Anyone who writes lines as acerbic as “As the last rose of summer turns to mud/I would like to believe/ I believe in flesh and blood”… has to have something going for them ferfuckssakes.”
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Albert Hammond Jr. – Yours to Keep
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So, what to make of Yours to Keep? I mean it’s cheerful, it’s poppy and winsome and should be the property of Europe‘s girlhood; I mean, it’s alright but it’s just not my thing squire…
Lisa Germano – In the Maybe World
” Into Oblivion must be the most beautiful song ever written about getting blotto, or more than blotto.”
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Shapes and Sizes – Shapes and Sizes.
“Well, incredibly, just to be extra perverse the band introduce no key or tempo changes at all, rather a fortification of the template set down at the track’s beginning. I’m suing. ”
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Incendiary take a stroll with The Witch & the Robot
“We’re havin’ a bring-and-buy sale but we’ll do a techno set over it. A techno second-hand-pant-ruck, that’s what it’s gonna be called.”
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The Long Blondes – Someone to Drive You Home
“Singer Kate Jackson belts out this the lines “Nineteen, you’re only nineteen for godssake” as if she was lecturing a class of freshers during their first term. ”
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Baltic Fleet – Planes Trains and Digital Delays.
“The genus of Bunnymen keyboardist Paul Fleming, and seemingly written on the road (given titles such as 26 Hour Drive and To Chicago), Trains Planes and Digital Delays is a very surprising record, surprising in its sense of peace and lucidity (given the madness of a Bunnymen tour).”
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Brakes – The Beatific Visions
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Well, rest assured, this is a great record. I don’t think it’s their best offering, but, thankfully, their best is yet to come and not behind them as I had half feared.
Electric Soft Parade – Rotown, Rotterdam 29/9/06
“In some ways they are a classic band, in that they have been around the block and are still frighteningly young, a bit like Traffic were in 1969-70.”
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