So Relent is not really something that will grab you, but then, I suppose its main strengths are its patience, its disarming simplicity and its clever sense of balance.
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Incendiary Snatch a Moment with Dum Dum Girls
Shades on, quiet, and curled up in a monstrously big leather chair, Dee Dee was charm itself but maybe bemused at the ridiculously early interview time.
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Incendiary talk to Robert Raths and Ryan West from Erased Tapes
I’m trying to protect the artists on the label, and the listeners for Erased Tapes from that, from that mono-world.
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Super Adventure Club – Straight from the Dick
It’s so sad they split, they were so much fun. But we have this, and in time they’ll be seen as a special band, no doubt about that.
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Katadreuffe – Malconfort
You may laugh when I suggest that it’s a poppy record but I really think it is; you can get into this and dance to it, it’s Iron Maiden, served up for Kafka fans.
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Glide – Assemblage One and Two
Deutschland, Deutsche –California, and now, Deutsche-Ormskirk. And nowt wrong with that!
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The Leg – Oozing A Crepuscular Light
What does mark the album out is a demented energy, it often feels like a twisted soundtrack to an old black and white slapstick short.
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Goodbye cruel world
Leaping off very high structures seems the only sensible course of action for JLS fans, although, as Stephen Watt found out, it’s less enjoyable when it involves a relative.
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Fear and Loving in Heaton Park – Home is the Hero
In a city where takeaways are the front line in a turf war, our epicurean chronicler is forced to seek sustenance in an unforgivable place.
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Gary Numan Splinter (Songs From A Broken Mind)
Dark thought this record is, it’s not depressing, and it doesn’t bring you down. Cathartic maybe, listenable definitely. Loveable? Very probably.
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