There’s something in certain tracks of Rules that scream “Big Black” at me. Again – nothing to worry about, whereas Big Black were all “nasty” and aggressive, these Civil Civic dudes are relentlessly happy.
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Morton Valence – Christmas in Valence
Peter, Bjorn and John – Gimme Some
there’s enough here to get anybody’s juices flowing
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The good, the mad and the tired. Three nights with Electric Soft Parade
We simply wish you’d been here to witness it.
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Niobe- The Cclose Call
I could go on and on about this release but suffice to say that it’s a tremendous record and you need to give it a spin.
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Mike Patton – Music From The Film And Inspired By The Book The Solitude of Prime Numbers
There’s a feeling in all of the pieces that is akin to the music in an old adventure film, when the heroes stumble on a lost valley in a remote part of the world, or are transported back to the realm of the dinosaurs
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Odonis Odonis – Hollandaze
The Spits – The Spits
There’s that element of making something that is not going to be heard by millions of people and in consequence has something very appealing about it.
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Thee Spivs – Black and White Memories
Wild Billy Childish and the Spartan Dregs – Forensic R ‘n’ B
If I was being polemical there’s a case to be made to hold Childish’s records up against an increasingly nervous, over-qualified and timid age.
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