It just felt like the right thing and the right time to do it, even though it was a bit rushed.
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Plant Duw – LLIWIAU
As ever with Plant Duw, melodies are strong and often take the lead role in dictating the track’s direction; and there are opalescent moments throughout…
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The Aprons – Sound Stain
In fact their gift for simple and effective melody is nigh on ridiculous; why music like this isn’t clogging up radio is a mystery until you consider their music’s essential DNA which is a bit weird, a bit unsettling.
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Dead C / Ranga -Dead C / Ranga
A great release, not for the faint hearted for sure, but plenty to enjoy if you love your free rock.
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Attila the Stockbroker and Patrik Fitzgerald WORM, Rotterdam – 15/02/13
…watching Attila the Stockbroker and Patrik Fitzgerald allowed another chance to cross the Styx and step back to more open, more spirited times….
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A SLIGHT DIVERSION featuring GIRLS NAMES and SOME OTHER BLOKE 25/2/13
A few years ago a lad I knew stopped a bus outside a house on Kings Road, only it wasn’t anything to do with pop music. It was his own house. And he was the bus driver.
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John:316 – Visions of The Hereafter – Visions of Heaven, Hell and Purgatory
It’s a powerful and organic brand of post rock that knows one pace. In fact, Visions of The Hereafter actually shows its immense strength through restraint.
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Dracula Lewis – Permafrost
The raw numbness, the machinelike quality at the core of this music should not be underestimated. It’s almost abrasive in its nothingness.
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Organisms – Rainbow Black + White
Because it’s a real growler this one, the opening track Believer instigates a headlong charge into bozo territory – where the rest of the album happily gambols about like a herd of bullocks let into a new spring pasture.
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Mr Heart – The Unspeakable Mr Heart
The changes of speed are, in a way, symptomatic of the fact that the music just can’t sit still; and this restlessness is in everything, the lyrics, the way the sound switches from track to track, the way vocals are presented…
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