These songs still ultimately feel like snatches, film score pieces, confessionals, personal recitals, glimpses of the parts of a larger whole. Maybe that’s the point. But what the heck, it’s still bloody good. You should get this.
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Dead Mellotron – Glitter
…given the songs are pretty much snatches of sound padded out by sky high attitude, it’s hard to define exactly why you like them or why you’re frustrated they’re not 3 times as long… Maybe that’s the whole point.
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Public Image Limited – This Is PiL
This is a big record, wide in scope and sound. You do have to stick with it at times as it’s over an hour but the beat is ever present, and at times you can wander off mentally but I think that’s more to do with the fact that this is a deeply satisfying, refreshing listen
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Broken Water – Tempest
It’s a wee bit saggy and one paced just at the points in the record’s lifespan when it needs to look from under its fringe and do something different, or give something that the listener can latch onto; it’s just too diffident for its own good.
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Simone White – Silver Silver
If anything Silver Silver reminds me of one those crossover pastoral modern folk LPs, pastoral works like Iren Lovasz and Teagrass’s Wide is the Danube, say.
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feedtime – the Aberrant years sampler
The sound veers between rock and roll, a rolling country (i’ll be rested) a messy sort of blues (Hear Me Calling) and a more arty, Clowns/Triffids sound in the aforementioned Play With Fire and curtains.
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Rangers – Pan Am Stories
This is an LP of its time. And faces the same pitfalls. Just like all those “old” looking pictures that Gilded Youth delights to create using Instagram, it’s not always about the effect but ultimately about how to present good content.
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Idjut Boys – Cellar Door
One For Kenny sounds like a tourist Odyssey on dope, shumbling from coffee shop to coffee shop, more and more buggered off Nederweed whilst completely lost in a sea of tourist crocodiles, pimps and pissed up ex pats.
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Pinkunoizu – Free Time
A bit of Faust Tapes cut and paste here, a bit of laconic female vocals there, and a bit of Gong keyboard sound for good measure. Everything a sensitive type needs, n’est-ce pas?
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Godspunk Volume 11
Tuffers aside, our first signs of some naughtiness and joie de vivre come with Howl in the Typewriter’s Cheesebuger Eating American and the daft collage Chewed by Badgers.
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