A few years ago a lad I knew stopped a bus outside a house on Kings Road, only it wasn’t anything to do with pop music. It was his own house. And he was the bus driver.
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John:316 – Visions of The Hereafter – Visions of Heaven, Hell and Purgatory
It’s a powerful and organic brand of post rock that knows one pace. In fact, Visions of The Hereafter actually shows its immense strength through restraint.
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Dracula Lewis – Permafrost
The raw numbness, the machinelike quality at the core of this music should not be underestimated. It’s almost abrasive in its nothingness.
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Organisms – Rainbow Black + White
Because it’s a real growler this one, the opening track Believer instigates a headlong charge into bozo territory – where the rest of the album happily gambols about like a herd of bullocks let into a new spring pasture.
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Mr Heart – The Unspeakable Mr Heart
The changes of speed are, in a way, symptomatic of the fact that the music just can’t sit still; and this restlessness is in everything, the lyrics, the way the sound switches from track to track, the way vocals are presented…
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Tussle – Tempest
Other tracks follow this loose, dubby pattern. Moondog rouses itself to shake some action in a variety of half-arsed styles, but only after it’s had a pizza and a little snooze.
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Úlfur – White Mountain
White Mountain turned out to be a quiet revelation. It is an unprepossessing listen, it certainly doesn’t look to impress: but because of that it’s also very tactile and subtle music; and beautifully weighted to boot.
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Phosphorescent – Muchacho
Now, normally I run a mile from too much comfy feel good music, but Phosphorescent is something different. For one, Matthew Houck can play the “feelings” card better than most.
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Why Sacred Bones Are So Great
It’s a small thing I know but there’s something incredibly satisfying about stacking all my CDs up and looking at the spines, seeing the precision design… they all look so cool.
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Aedi – Ha Ta Ka Pa
Whatever else Alexander Hacke might have done in producing the record, stopping the band and saying “No, I think that’s a bit much” doesn’t appear to have been part of it. And as is pretty much always the case, that’s all to the good.
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