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Charalambides – Likeness
“At sixty-nine minutes in total length, and with several songs lasting over five minutes, the listener has to invest a lot. Patience and perseverance will be rewarded with the discovery of an excellent album.”
Chatham Country Line – IV
On an individual basis the tracks are lovely. Gentle melodies and expert, yet warm, musicianship abounds. Across a whole album the effect is unfortunately somewhat soporific.
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Anti-Atlas – Between Two/ Between Voices
The album looks beyond the narrow confines of ambient electonica towards great Romantic composers such as Mahler, Dvorak and Holst. Unfortunately these tracks never achieve anything like the grandeur or emotional connection that lies at the heart of these composers’ works.
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Peter Grummich Plays Staubgold – Dinner Music for Clubbers
“What I really should say is that the LP has a breadth and ambition that isn’t often seen with releases of this sort; and I readily grant its damned hard to put an ambient compilation together that really maintains a sense of purpose throughout. ”
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Radar Bros – Auditorium
“It’s all pleasant enough, and inoffensive, something that you wouldn’t be ashamed to play to your grandmother, but as an album, it can’t seem to get out of first gear.”
Earth – The Bees Made Honey in The Lion’s Skull
The album is monolithically beautiful, sad and savage. And this review will probably be in Private Eye in a couple of weeks.
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Structure and Cosmetics- The Brunettes
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With neither the understated wit and charm of Belle and Sebastian, or the high octane bubblegum sharpness of The Chalets, The Brunettes seem to fall awkwardly between two stools, and where they should be a glossy brown, end up mousey beige instead.
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Indian Jewelry – We Are the Wild Beast/Free Gold
“There are some very, very clever people at work here; I command you to read the sleeve notes on both releases, especially Ted Sands’ witty missive on the latest LP Free Gold!”
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Klangwart – Stadtandfluss
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What is it with German releases at the moment? There’s something going on, for sure. With labels like Morr, Staubgold, Karaoke Kalk and Monika really coming up trumps of late, maybe it’s time to be celebrating a new wave of Kraut-Musik. I’m hoping so.
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