As is the case with so much music of this ilk, you get wistful and dreamy songs lost in a haze of feedback and tinkling melodies (Thursday), or you get affirmative romps (New Years, Red Sea).
Luxophonic Corporation – C’est Merveilleux
However, as I said earlier, there are always hidden gems to be had; Peter Thomas’s Surf With Gunter is nothing short of saucy
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Mus – La Vida
Right from the opening track Per Tierres Baxes you get a chocolate-y voice high up in the mix, quietly strummed guitars and a church-y organ sound.
Bonde Do Role – With Lasers
The video to Bonde Do Role’s debut single on Domino Records, Office Boy, features rather attractive singer Marina Vello jumping around, her eyes decorated with bright blue stars, sticking her tits out at the camera. Obviously, she has been in my wet dreams ever since.
Vibracathedral Orchestra – Wisdom Thunderbolt
It’s bloody insistent in its sameness, which, of course, makes it as punk as fuck.
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Vic Sine – Affentanz
I’d better say straight from the off that this recording is very German.
Bow Mods – Country Girls EP
There’s a degree of Kinks-like playfulness that never fails to catch you, even when the subject matter is a bit grim… stabbings in Safeways indeed.
Appie Kim, Chronic Heist, Sub 071 Leiden 23/05/07.
How could incendiary magazine have lived with the knowledge that we’d have missed the sight of Swedish men rolling around on the floor, making jokes about Swedish bomb shelters..
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Black Cab, Whip, Ekko Utrecht, 19/05/07
A screen was erected behind the drum kit, and dry ice was pumped stage-wards. If you’re in thrall to the likes of Neu! & the Bunnymen, you’ve got to do these things properly.
Manic Street Preachers – Send Away The Tigers
It goes down so many uncommercial and certainly unfashionable avenues that it really shouldn’t appeal to you at all, but it probably will.
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