These are often tales of the inner soul, the solitary dreamer’s inert reaction to the world around them, a sort of lugubrious coping mechanism
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Fall From Grace – American Arty Pop Records Made by Earnest Artsy People
Why are these records all so bloody serious, so reverential anyway? Why do they look to be so sodding important? Why do these bands appear with a fanfare and then disappear?
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Pantha du Prince and The Bell Laboratory – Elements of Light
…it’s enlightening, revelatory in passages. Who’d have thunk it, eh, bells??
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Suuns – Images Du Futur
The good thing about this record is that Suuns have streamlined their sense of space and their inherently tough sound with a feeling of dynamics, with knowledge that less is more; that balancing a set of good tricks is better than going through a whole gamut of clever phrases and poses.
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Unknown Mortal Orchestra – II
It’s fair to say that a correct and intelligent obeisance to R&B is made here, and the record’s soulboy pretensions are wrapped in a prettily coloured kaftan
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Young Fathers – Tape One
Rapping about Cock a Leekie soup? You’d better believe it.
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A Sun Amissa – You Stood Up For Victory, We Stood Up For Less
The vibe is also like those early Ash Ra Tempel bliss-outs, the flipside to their fiery muse, the moments where they were coming down off all that acid from Leary.
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Blue Willa – Blue Willa
You feel that on Blue Willa’s release, Bozulich brings openness and a sort of focus to the expression of what could otherwise be a messy host of ideas and attitudes.
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Masayoshi Fujita – Stories
You’re going to need some reserves of concentration here. Masayoshi Fujita – known also as el fog – has made a sensuous and intelligent set of musical essays on Stories;
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?Alos – Yomi, L’Oscura Terra Dei Morti
…there’s an element that sounds fresh and original, despite the fact that serious types indulging in recording industrial noises and whipping guitar samples within an inch of their life are a pound to a penny these days.
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