opium dens, sleazy rock bars, dancing/twirling in the desert, summer garden keg parties with electro belly dancers, acid trips, doing nitrous, boogie-wiggling
The Fall – Fall Heads Roll
All in all, the best Fall album since, erm, the last one…
The Fall – Fall Heads Roll
Baxter Dury – Floor Show
God, he sounds like Peter Cook on here. Especially the bit when he “falls for Rebecca Trollope, corr, disgahstin”.
Incendiary News September 2005
We missed out on the Polyphonic Spree, due to extreme drunkenness, which actually may be a good thing, as we could have lost half of our editorial team to their ranks had the meeting gone ahead…
The Serpents – You have just been Poisoned by The Serpents.
The song straddles over six minutes, a fabulous Rubenesque hand-maiden trying to stay in a pair of tight-fit jeans.
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Letter From London; the Mercury Prize fall-out
It’s a funny old game designed to provoke column inches – much as I’m doing now.
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Outsider – Understanding EP
“The line “Wipe that ginger smile off your face” has to be the most obviously personal insult thrown in rock.”
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John Francis & Imposters – The Earnest Manboy Suite in E Major
To be blunt this album is around thirteen minutes of music and five minutes of typing noises.
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Mercury Rev – Paradiso, Amsterdam – 8/6/2005
An astonishing, awe inspiring journey.
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The Immortal Lee County Killers 3 – These Bones will Rise to Love You Again
If last CD, ‘Love Unbolts the Dark’, was a meal at a four starrestaurant, this is a Jacobian feast.
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