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Box Set Review: Mott the Hoople – Mental Train (The Island Years 1969-71)

Before “All The Young Dudes”, before Top of the Pops appearances, before David Bowie, Mott The Hoople were a brilliant live act that arguably struggled to transfer the tremendous energy…

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Album Review: John Grant – Love is Magic

Sometimes you just have to accept your own limitations. For example, the last two months have seen me trying to desperately juggle being a father and halfway decent life partner,…

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Not Forgotten: Genesis – Selling England By the Pound

Genesis may have not been the first, best or even the most original, but to many fans they are the archetypal progressive rock act. From distinctly unpromising beginnings, they had…

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Album Review: Matt Berry – Television Themes

When Acid Jazz Records announced earlier this year that Matt Berry’s next release would be an album of covers of Television Themes, I only momentarily considered if it was a…

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Album Review: Jim Clements – A Failure

Every so often Jim Clements puts out an album and not enough people cop on. It’s kind of understandable. There’s very much music to be heard and no shortage of…

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Say Psych: Premiere: Medicine Boy – Lower

Berlin duo Medicine Boy release their second LP Lower on Fuzz Club Records tomorrow and BSM is honoured to bring you the premiere streaming. Originally hailing from Cape Town, South…

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Album Review – Gregory Alan Isakov – Evening Machines

Charles Spano’s review of Damien Rice’s “O” on All Music Guide has a fantastic description of the ‘special sauce’ that turns the ordinary into the extraordinary and takes seemingly simply…

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Say Psych: Album Review: Death Valley Girls – Darkness Rains

Rock n’ roll has always served as a means to elevate the fringe of society, though it’s accentuated the plights of the outcasts and misfits in different ways throughout the…

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Album Review – MOONTRIBE – MOONTRIBE LP

What they say: Fortuna Records return with a mysterious album by the anonymous artist known only as Moontribe. A deep-space journey between tribal percussion, hypnotizing organs and long echo ripples, all joining in…

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Not Forgotten: Randy Newman – The Randy Newman Songbook Vol. 1

Listening to The Randy Newman Songbook Vol.1, there’s probably a case to be made for him being one of the all time great American songwriters. It’s always been something of…

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