…here’s a band that have probably – after a good decade of high quality and often magical work, produced their best record yet.
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The Sound of the Dutch Underground – Melkweg, Amsterdam 21/3/13
I’m strolling down to the Melkweg. I see a huge queue of teens clad in black and the darker shades of purple and grey… hordes of gawky teens; liberally daubed with purple lipstick and violently, aggressively shiny black hair, wearing trousers that are wider than a turnoffon the A4. Eh? Where are the Subbacultcha butterflies?
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How Not To Be In A Band – Destiny Calling, Collect
Even if Rick Wakeman remixed our entire oeuvre it could’ve been released as a single.
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Fear and Loving in Heaton Park: Part Six – My New Best Friends
There has been much debate over what our saviour will look like when he arrives. Well now your humble author can put an end to years of religious speculation, and here’s a clue, he’s not a hippy.
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Incendiary interview Andy Moor of The Ex
To be honest I don’t know that enough about the Dutch scene. We don’t seem to be part of it, we don’t get invited into it, I don’t even know how they see us, whether they see us as an old Dutch punk band..
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PSB, WTCHRS, PARASTATIC, The Studio, Hartlepool 9/3/13
Hopefully after being exposed to more challenging music her room will soon be festooned with pictures of that vision in corduroy J Willigoose Esq rather than a prepubescent, gas mask wearing fringe with a predilection for attacking photographers.
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Poltergeist – Hoxton Bar & Grill 14/03/13
This is the music the ancients who put up stones at Callanish were listening to, but it was all just in their heads at the time.
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WTCHRS – Round and Round
It’s actually the sort of single that could be a springboard for something more powerful, and more gripping.
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INVASION OF THE MUTANT ALIEN PIG BABIES starring EVIL BLIZZARD and Stalagmites
This lot are somehow scarier, the sort of half-man-half-pig thing that all bar one of the bassists have going on in with pink adult babygros is the stuff of nightmares
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Matmos – The Marriage of True Minds
The Marriage of True Minds is not, I think, their best album but it is several leagues higher than…well, I would say opposition, but I’m not sure that there is anyone quite like Matmos
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