This is not one for dinner parties, unless your guests are of the mindset of the characters in the BBC’s famously macabre sketch-cartoon show Monkey Dust who once dined on a freshly murdered tramp.
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The Young Republic – 12 Tales From Winter City
Whilst The Young Republic’s music is definitely American, it seems that they are indebted to the modern forebears of the Postcard Records philosophy, to Belle and Sebastian and Camera Obscura.
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The Bouys – Grillo Parlante
There is something filmic about the music too. Despite the minimalism implied by titles such as opener Absolutely Nothing there is a warmth to the tracks.
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Incendiary interview the British Expeditionary Force
During the whole creation of the first album we didn’t even meet, so we didn’t really know how we were going to pull it off live or anything – we didn’t care; we didn’t really feel like it was something we were going to need to do live.
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Speedmarket Avenue – Way Better Now
I would suggest the band don’t showcase their best material here, and it could be worth watching out for them in the future even though this album falters.
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Floreat Shoegaze!
But hang on, isn’t this – whisper it – shoegaze? And wasn’t that outlawed under the NME Fashion Police Act 1991?
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Incendiary interview Hospital Bombers
Our drummer draws cartoons too, right-handed mind; incomprehensible mini comic strips about a pig and a beer drinking Slayer fan with an upside down face. You see, it all adds up.
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Slaraffenland – Sunshine EP
Whilst the A-Ha cover is charming enough, the take on Paranoid Android is a simply stunning reappraisal.
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Fulton Lights – The Way We Ride
Fulton Lights’ new album The Way We Ride is the soundtrack to that moment when you’re standing at the airport wondering what the fuck to do next.
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Palloc – A tree in our city
Leave us alone. We’ll just wallow here in the rain, with our hair flopping in front of our eyes as our stripey woollen jumpers get ever heavier, absorbing all the moisture and the die in our saggy arsed jeans begins to run and tie-dye our underpants.
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