It’s a great mix of demented and whacked out; albeit a sort of demented that catches you unawares – like the Devil in The Master & Margarita, it’s too suave to show all its tricks at once.
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AC Berkheimer – Beyond The Equation of State
It’s certainly their best balanced record too, so smooth that it engages your subconscious a LONG time before the rest of your brain catches up. I bet you that you only notice it’s actually on when Kissing The Surface starts.
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Plus Instruments – Trancesonics
This is a marvellous LP; one which employs a mix of mad sounds and considerable know how. Not to mention bags of charm. At times it’s a weird pop master class.
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Hunter Complex – Heat
Maybe Hunter Complex are serial sentimentalists. A lot of the tracks do have a marked sentimental edge, like Serious Glass or the brilliant Space, which nabs Seeing Out the Angel’s key pattern from the Minds’ Sons & Fascination.
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Those Foreign Kids – Zero Gravity Somersaulting Craze
It’s easy to make really, really boring records using this screaming, thrashy style. Or, ones that quickly lose their initial charm. I think this isn’t and won’t.
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Cultuur? Barbaaar! – Qbus and Vrijplaats, Leiden 30/08/13
Somehow this C?B! thing could be a runner. Nature and Nurture, Prospero and Caliban, Bitter and Mild, or even a cherry in your spritzer. Let’s see what next year throws up.
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Haldern Pop 2013 Day 3 Saturday 10 August
Haldern Pop 2013 Day 2 Friday 9 August
“We’d love to come back and play again for you guys someday. This time with our own instruments. They sound completely different to this……Well, a little bit.”
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Haldern Pop 2013 Day 1 Thursday 8 August
Anyway, what the bloody hell do you need a smoke machine for at 7pm on a sunny evening in a field in the Nieder Rein? No, me neither.
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Letter from Sheffield – A Summer Roundup
All the old favourites are there: Lord Kitchener, Lord Beginner, The Mighty Terror. A particular highlight is King Timothy’s Football Calypso where we hear which football club has the right to call themselves the best in England.
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