Tracks such as Satellites and Cthulu are like staring at a range of mountains and seeing the thunder clouds form. Drums in the deep. It’s epic stuff, it really is.
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Hauschka – Abandoned City
Throughout there’s a feeling of industriousness; the record’s like a production line; these restless, fluid, but preplanned rhythmical structures that ebb and flow through the music, almost becoming narrative threads over a number of tracks.
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Amber Arcades – Amber Arcades
I wonder if ITGWO is about that bakfietsmoeder/woolly jumper /perfect teeth/artisan bread festival on a Dutch island? Hmmm.
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Richard’s Record Review Part Three – March 2014
Not only that, if Sacred Bones were really in charge of food an’ all that, they’d discover how to make proper, totally natural, no additive, pie chips and gravy meals that kept you slim.
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Richard’s Record Roundup Part Two – March 2014
In some ways the confusion they generate is akin to having a room full of blindfolded, hyperactive, Haribo-stuffed kids who are all trying to pin the tail on the donkey.
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Richard’s Record Roundup – March 2014
A review in which your CUNT of a reviewer tells you that there are only 20 of these CDs (I got #7, so just like those Big Eyed Beans from Venus, there’s a limited supply) and they’re FROM SOMEONE HE VAGUELY KNOWS….
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The Ex Festival, Paradiso, Amsterdam, 01-03-2014
They are, in the truest sense of the word, exceptional.
And so was this whole evening.
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The Ex Festival – Tivoli Utrecht, 2/3/14
I want Han Bennink to do that daft thump with his foot, or shout “yeah” every time I brew up. I want to know where to buy trousers like Han Bennink’s trousers. I’m obsessed.
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The Ex Festival, Paard van Troje, Den Haag 28/2/14
Could the Paard confound Terrie’s recent comments made in the Dutch press about playing soulless new pop venues?
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Sweet Release of Death and Space Siren, SUB071 Leiden, 26/02/14
What really sucks you in is the bass line which, by contrast to all the guitar shards being chucked at you by Gwen and Corno, is as smooth as velvet. Madness.
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