This LP does what Étienne de Crécy’s music did in the late ’90s, openly identify and celebrate the here and now; or what New Order used to do, sugar coat the grimy, unpalatable stuff, with a bit of dry humour.
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Hospitality – Trouble
So, good, intelligent, fun pop with some startling highlights, mostly in the first half. Worth a listen? Oh for sure, for sure.
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Eraas – Initiation
Well, it can’t entiterely escape sounding like a lot of bands coming out of Brooklyn, so you get that “trademark” adeptness at mixing up 17 Seconds Cure with Suicide and the Dinger beat.
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Fuzz – Fuzz
There’s something appeallingly grubby about the LP, an earthy sound that is suited to skulking round back alleys; you know, morose, a bit chippy but with a hell of a lot of front.
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Nathan Salsburg – Hard For To Win And Can’t Be Won
Homespun is almost a dirty word to use in a review but here I feel it is appropriate as the record does capture the essence of sitting about in your own manor, watching time slip by.
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YCR – Promo Sampler
This promo is like a (doubtless unintentional) Dutch take on those Godspunk compilations from Pumf records in Blackpool (unintentional because I would run naked through the streets of Leiden if anyone says they have all the Pumf compilations in NL)
Stranger Son – Last Days of Butterfly
Those in need of a cuppa and a biscuit had better get one now, as there’s more monochrome psycho drama in store with French Playground, a track which charts the Algerian revolt of the 1950s.
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Apneu – Hard Feelings
This LP should live in the real world of first dates and being sick after a party, and doing your smalls at the laundry, not looking to play out a role as the example of some Simmel-style deconstruction about musical spatiality and society.
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Blank Realm – Grassed Inn
It’s got something of that lackadaisical attitude that The Saints, Royal Trux or the Teardrop Explodes used to spread around, and should be the soundtrack to lots of bedsit rave ups.
Josephine Foster – I’m A Dreamer
Given the way Josephine Foster’s I’m A Dreamer is produced and presented, it should come as no surprise as the whole enterprise feels totally out of step with the present time.
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