I’m sure the temptation to really labour the point musically was very strong, but what we get is a cleverly presented series of short, snappy tracks with a strong command of atmosphere
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Johnny 5th Wheel and The Cowards – Music to Shake n Shuffle To
You can’t help smiling or being lulled into a comfortable sense of being entertained by this record. And I suppose that’s all it really set out to do in the first place.
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September Girls – Green Eyed bw Danny Wood
The song deals with that eternal question that – like the common cold – never seems to find a cure: “relationships with boys”.
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The Orb – Adventures Beyond the Factory Floor
As with all these sorts of schemes it came unstuck: the acid came on like a thief in the night and he apparently battled giant snowmen down the M66, swerving to avoid them as they enacted a monstrous snowball fight.
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Moon Duo and Spilt Milk, Patronaat Café 22/10/2012
And despite having a whole set of boss songs with incredibly catchy hooks to proffer, the one thing that smacks you right between the eyes is the intense quality of their live sound. It’s all about the sound.
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Planet Eyelash, Darling Don’t Dance SUB071 2/11/2012
Their last two tracks of the night are complete burn outs; the two guitarists standing stock still facing of each other, trying to become entwined by the power of feedback alone. They are, to put it mildly, fucking good.
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Rats on Rafts and New YX Melkweg Amsterdam 3/11/2012
Maybe that’s all they needed, a chance to play a few big stages with a good, professional sound mix and some proper amplification, as the sound they made in the Melkweg’s Oude Zaal was little short of revelatory.
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Thoughts on Popronde 2012 – Utrecht Leiden and Delft
Wooden Constructions are great and if you don’t get a grip on that concept, then the doors to the garden centres up and down this land are waiting for you, beckoning to you, happy to put a warm, schmaltzy, all-enveloping arm round you and propel you round their sensory death-spaces.
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Cheval Sombre – Mad Love
Songwriter, craftsman and curator, a dark horse by name and by nature, this alnum’s unlikely to bring Cheval Sombre out of the shadows but it may just extend them into a few more people’s record collections.
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Notes from the fireside – He who is always alone – Smack Wizards, TALIBAM, Kiss the Anus of a Black Cat
And, if I hear this album again, I’ll be picking up a nice big stake, assembling a mob of angry villagers, replete with pitchforks and torches, and having me a good old-fashioned Goth hunt.
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