The Joy of Pop reveals itself to be an absolute gem; immediately putting your weirdometer at ease; mixing Pop Group against chamber folk, (or chamber punk) with a dash of Kid Strange and early Cure for good measure.
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Lia Ices – Ices
I’ve really enjoyed tapping my toe to Ices whilst ironing, or holding the door to the Jakes open, to hear it better when it’s playing in the living room.
Robyn Hitchcock – The Man Upstairs
The Man Upstairs, is a good record mind; and a sort of refocus, even a realignment, where the Hitch gently polishes his psychicke crystal ball, often using other Sonic Mages’ cloths.
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Ought – More Than Any Other Day
This is a razor-sharp collection of passionate, informed, funny and often ebullient rock songs.
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Black Walls – Communion
So; if you dig that sub-Victorian ‘Gothicke’ J W Waterhouse scene, you will dig this record’s opening numbers; there is no doubt of that.
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Incendiary Interview Adrian Younge – “I WANT to be pigeonholed.”
The bullet just missed Domino, but he had gunpowder burning his eyes, so he thought he was a dead man. The Souls thought so too: this dude was trying to kill off all the Souls Of Mischief!
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Grumbling Fur – Preternaturals
Rather, Preternaturals carries on in a grand tradition of subversive English camp, and very refreshing it is too.
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Sativa Flats – Sativa Flats
And there’s something about the reedy voice that does it; underpowered, outta tune, seemingly intent on making yer man from Atlas Sound sound like Rammstein.
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The Avonden – God is Liefde
Songs like Nieuw Paaslied (New Song for Easter) or Droomgezicht come on like Lou Reed reciting his shopping list in the room next to you.
David Thomas Broughton and Juice – Sliding the Same Way
Even better, folk troubadour David Thomas Broughton manages to sound sinister and plummy and eccentrically Northern all at the same time.
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