Conor Oberst does a Tom Petty impersonation for 40 minutes
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Toby Keane – Lady Napalm & London
achingly beautiful
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Matt Baldwin – Paths Of Ignition
this Baldwin bloke is clever
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TV On The Radio – Dear Science
bloody entertaining
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Miller Carr & The Shallants – Passage Through The Wilderness Vol II
masters of all trades and jacks of none
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Mercury Rev – Snowflake Midnight
an exhilarating album, surprising you at every turn and delighting you in equal measure
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Ernie Hendricksen – Down The Road
a slow tempo country album and it sounds exactly like you probably think it does
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Incendiary interview My Brightest Diamond
I’m interested in fluidity. Part of the idea for many of the songs for the new LP (A Thousand Shark’s Teeth) especially the last half of the record; I’m allowing the melody to dictate what happens.
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Goodnight Monsters – Summer Challenge
Unfortunately for Goodnight Monsters the waters of tepid, sunny pop music do not run deep, but already team with bands like a crowded beach on a hot bank holiday.
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Offset Festival, Hainault Forest, Essex, 30/08/08
….maybe this is an idea for future events; why have new music? Why not just have tents that allow you to enter 1981, and experience the sights and sounds of that, or some other seminal year. There’ll be plenty of bands able to copy the required sound.
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