"I’ve carved a big crater for myself. Which I can die in! But if I can I may burrow all the way through and then I can get to China."
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Incendiary interview Heads We Dance
It’s a sense of the ridiculous but with rough edges; it’s exciting to listen to, it’s not just Rick Wakeman, you know?
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Mystery Jets – Twenty One
Sadly there aren’t too many records that sound like Aztec Camera being made these days, either. Yet Two Doors Down sounds like the love-child of Martin Fry and Roddy Frame.
Mothlite – The Flax of Reverie
Along the way there are touches of late era Talk Talk and Pink Floyd and then some John Coltrane-style jazz. It really is as odd as it sounds. It is also magnificent.
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Mar – The Silence
The band thank Sigur Ros for their generous help and the use of their equipment. It would appear that the equipment was not all they borrowed from the Icelandic post-rockers.
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Surrounded – The Nautilus Years
Given a choice between Rydell’s near-whispered croon and the gauche loudness of, say, The F**tellis and it is Sweden’s answer to Mark Linkous who will inevitably win the day.
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Timesbold – Ill Seen Ill Sung
Sadly the quote by Robert Walser that adorns the back-page of the lyric booklet is peculiarly adroit: ‘There’s something missing when I don’t hear music, and when I do, then there’s really something missing.’
Sera Cahoone – Only As The Day Is Long
Partway through the album Cahoone sings the line ‘It’s gotta get better than this’. Sadly the prophecy isn’t born out.
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13 Amp – Promo
Nowt new or original, but this is uncomplicated and unpretentious stuff.
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Madrugada – Madrugada
Well the spirit of Burås is very evident throughout the record. His guitar style is mostly very bluesy, finding a perfect foil Sivert Høyem’s rich vocals.
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