Tracks like Mind & Matter’s I’m Under Your Spell, or is the sound of high living or people pretending they are living high, aspirants’ music. That is probably why this Fall/Bunnymen/Smiths fan hated it at the time; I couldn’t see past the shoulder pads to examine what made it tick.
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Matthew Sawyer – Sleep Dreamt a Brother
So, a deliberate and quiet entrenchment of some emotional inner space; and whether you think entering into this foggy world of Sawyer’s thoughts and feelings is worth it is, (as Peter Cook once said), “entirely a matter for you”.
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Carlton Melton – Always Even
So there you have it, another fab slab of High Magicke. I’m not sure this band knows how to make a bad record.
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Melt Banana – Fetch
That’s not to say that this LP isn’t enjoyable, it IS; it’s great, a blast even, and at times it kicks off into another dimension, through sheer force of will and the drill-like playing of the band.
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King Champion Sounds – Different Drummer
There’s this spaceyness to this record that’s up there with the best stuff Maximum Joy or Pop Group did; that loose, whirligig sound on Free-Dum Trail or Orbit Macht Frei are cases in point…
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Circuit Des Yeux – Overdue
There are some tremendously dark, almost Nordic ballads here; such as My Name Is Rune or Nova 88, both getting on a bit of a Marble Index trip…
King Khan and the Shrines – Idle No More
And in any case, how can you get all hot under the collar about an artist who seems to be sporting a necklace of shrimps on the cover?
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Chrome Hoof – Chrome Black Gold
It’s a suggestive name, Chrome Hoof; redolent of the polish of sleek modern urban living, of the leather running sooth in the passenger seat and, well, being trodden on by a beast of the field.
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Banabila and Machinefabriek – Travelog
This record has a quality of something special, of something indefinably GOOD about it; in fact so good I think I can get away with calling it brilliant. One thing’s for certain, I can’t get enough of it at the moment.
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Fabio Orsi and Sindre Bjerga, Qbus Leiden, 5/10/13
I still wonder about what the qualitative differences between this form of entertainment and, say, watching a string quartet are; or watching someone knocking out a Buxtehude piece on an organ.
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