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Well, rest assured, this is a great record. I don’t think it’s their best offering, but, thankfully, their best is yet to come and not behind them as I had half feared.
Electric Soft Parade – Rotown, Rotterdam 29/9/06
“In some ways they are a classic band, in that they have been around the block and are still frighteningly young, a bit like Traffic were in 1969-70.”
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The Pipettes – Rotown, 12/10/06
“For believe you me, they are calculating and hard nosed beneath that veneer of village green simplicity and their attempts to make the normally leaden-footed Dutch dance are reminiscent of a Ruth Maddox-like persistence in ensuring that fun will be had…”
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Scott Walker Back Catalogue Part 4 – The Drift to Abstraction.
Mr. Dawson required a clear head to contemplate the latter career of Scott Walker. Just the mention of the name made Mr. Dawson wince. Thinking about Tilt, in his condition?
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Big Truck – One Long Saturday Night
“Good run of the mill metal and good, run of the mill metal ballads. I can certainly see these guys cracking the American market and playing the main stage at the Download Festival”
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Sub Pop – Acquired Taste DVD
Just when did Sub Pop change from being the home of grunge into an American Sarah Records?
Cud – Rich and Strange, The Anthology
It’s the familiar You Sexy Thing cover that starts it all off, obviously hoping to reel other people in the way that I was all those years ago.
The Notorious Bettie Page
Now, where’s my gimp mask…
Comets on Fire – Avatar
“Let me tell you now, Avatar is classic stuff, very different than their previous recordings; as it eschews more of a classic rock sound, and is very much in thrall to earlier exponents of the space rock genre.”
The Mardy Bums – Who the Chuff are the Mardy Bums?
“On the other side of the spectrum the ponderous review websites cast their beady eye over this brilliantly DIY slab of orange vinyl and derided it as some puerile attempt at humour. Drowned in Sound attacking you? What was that saying again – “being savaged by a dead sheep” or something?”
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