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[Flashback] – Beck –“Sea Change”
[In the first half of 2011 we ran a few “Flashback” posts giving a little hindsight loving to great/underrated/forgotten albums from 10 years ago. We didn’t really have a plan or timetable for those...
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[Review/Listen] – Cheyenne Marie Mize –“We Don’t Need” EP
This one’s a treat. Cheyenne Marie Mize was a folk singer-songwriter from Loiusville, Kentucky. I say “was” because although her first album, which you should check out if you haven’t already, was a...
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[Review/Listen] – Guided By Voices –“Let’s Go Eat The Factory”
Soon, a review of “Let’s Go Eat The Factory”, but first a brief history lesson, just in case you don’t know the story so far. Guided By Voices haven’t released an album in 8 years. Some would probably...
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[Review/Listen] – Django Django –“Django Django”
“Django Django” is an album of two halfs. The opening seven tracks are a mad art-pop romp, absolutely living up to the hype that surrounded Django Django on the release of their debut single...
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[Review/Listen] – We Are Pirates –“Kids Practice” EP
We introduced Brazilian trio We Are Pirates a couple of months back and promised a review of their complete EP within a few weeks. Well, it’s been a little longer than that now but the EP, called...
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[Review/Listen] – Fanfarlo –“Rooms Filled With Light”
After the release of their likeable but frankly unremarkable first album “Resevoir”, Fanfarlo received more attention for their similarity to other acts than for their own innovations, of which there...
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[Review/Listen] – Alabama Shakes –“Boys & Girls”
Buy “Boys & Girls” by Alabama Shakes: Vinyl | MP3 | CD We featured Alabama Shakes as “Ones To Watch” back in January of this year, and really we were hardly pioneers for doing so: Alabama Shakes...
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Review/Listen: Jack White –“Blunderbuss”
When the news broke that The White Stripes had officially broken up back in February of 2011, my feelings were somewhat mixed: of course, The White Stripes were and still are one of my favourite...
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Review/Listen: Metric – Synthetica
Metric went big last time around. Fantasies, the band’s fourth album, was “all about pushing [Metric] out into the world”, in the words of lead singer Emily Haines, and boy did it succeed in that...
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Spotlight Review/Listen: Conveyor – Conveyor
When we first introduced Conveyor nearly a year ago, it seemed as if the band was in transition: on their debut EP, happy-go-lucky tunes with thick instrumentation like “Sun Ray” sat alongside more...
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