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Some Crap About the Future could be Before and After Science Eno but soon settles down to be trademark Electric President; winsome vocals, acoustic–based melodies and subtle time-shifts augmented by effects galore.
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An oldie but goldie interview with Interpol
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During the course of this coming year, we will bring you interviews with some veritable heroes of rock that we lost (amongst the junk of the Incendiary shed), weren’t published due to legal considerations, or ones that we frankly forgot to publish. Here is one of them. Interpol in 2004.
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Incendiary talks to the legendary Terry Reid.
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They were loading crates of champagne onto the plane so I asked Eric if that was for the wedding. He told me it was for the plane journey and the bus ride at the other end! From there on, it was take no prisoners.
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Richard Swift – The Novelist & Walking Without Effort
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To return to Van Dyck Parks. If you like his two LPs Discover America and the Clang of the Yankee Reaper (both whimsical psychedelic masterpieces that drew heavily on the 1930s and 1940s dance band and show tunes for inspiration) then you’ll love this. Only a guess on my part mind…
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J Edgar Hoova & the Body Removers -Take Your Dead Ass Home
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I immediately flew into a huge whiskey-fuelled rage (from which Farnsworth still carries a slight limp in his right leg) before embarking on a rampage through the Roger studio destroying 17 Flying Vs, 412 pairs of sunglasses, 9 army jackets, 3 vintage bass guitars, 1 vintage copy of Playboy… nothing was spared – I destroyed or urinated on all of them.
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Chicks On Speed – with Kid Ginseng, Chris Frantz & Tina Weymouth (Tom Tom Club /
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The audience was very mixed from young and arty to old and grandparents. Yes, that’s right, the parents of one of the Talking Heads actually came to see the show…
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Kelley Stoltz – Below the Branches
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A more eclectic collection of instruments (slide guitar, double base, maybe a washboard and a weird almost underwater synthesizer noise) usher in Birdies Singing. It’s a weird number, but compelling, like a lot of the rest of the album, very reminiscent of late sixties folky/psychedelic tracks like Traffic’s Berkshire Poppies.
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Casiotone for the Painfully Alone – Etiquette
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The last song, Love Connection is described in the sleeve notes thus; “Love Connection is a cover of a Parenthetical Girls song, which features a sparse, Congolese influenced arrangement that Ashworth (that’s Mr. Casiotone to you, folks) created while acting as a guest member of the band”. This is the one about menstrual fluids by the way. It’s great.
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Rogue Wave – Descended Like Vultures
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It is very druggy stuff, reminiscent of very early, Chasing a Bee era Mercury Rev, (albeit with that particular band’s rough edges smoothed away).
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Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
“Imagine Byrne as a child at a supermarket. He’s at the till with mother and she has said he can’t have any of the sweets on offer. He wails and cries and moans. That gives you some idea of how Alec Ounsworth sounds. ”
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