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Album Review: Ought – Room Inside the World

On their third album, and first for Merge records, Ought augment their anxious, itchy alt-rock with a wider palette of instrumental colours, balancing the agitated highs of earlier records with…

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Say Psych: Album Review: Mint Field – Pasar De Las Luces

Rating: 7/10 Tijuana is a border town with a storied history – sometimes a history of union, sometimes of violence, that allows it to have a hybrid culture with many…

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Album Review : Superchunk’s ‘What a Time to Be Alive’

Superchunk have been a constant in the indie rock music scene since the early 90s. They helped to define a sound, regionally in the Chapel Hill music scene, and nationally…

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Not Forgotten: World Party – Egyptology

Life can be strange. 1993’s Bang had flagged up World Party as a band to watch for the rest of the decade. An intelligent retro-pop act, with a frontman that…

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Album Review: The Rezillos – Flying Saucer Attack

A timely reissue of Edinburgh`s finest New Wave Beat Group`s classic Cant Stand The Rezillos and Mission Accomplished albums, packaged togeher under the title Flying Saucer Attack. Removed from other punk…

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Doctor Bird Reggae Re issues: Ethiopians and Uniques

Cherry Red Reggae Reissues By Leggy Mountbatten Ethiopians Reggae Power/Woman Capture Man UNIQUES ABSOLUTELY THE UNIQUES: EXPANDED EDITION’ Doctor Bird Compilation Following from Novembers Hot Shots Of Reggae reissue, Doctor…

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Album Review : Fu Manchu’s ‘Clone Of The Universe’

I guess I’ve never been much of a desert rock kind of guy. I’m pretty pale, so the desert holds some pretty painful fates for me. Not even SPF 50…

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Album Review: Twin Peaks – Sweet ’17 Singles

I love Twin Peaks the TV show more than I love damn fine coffee or the best cherry pie in the Tri-Counties. But there is also Twin Peaks the band,…

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Album Review: The Just Joans – You Might Be Smiling Now…

Discussing the newish (yeah, we missed it – sorry) album from Glasgow’s Just Joans, singer-songwriter David Pope says “You Might Be Smiling Now… could be considered a loose concept album.…

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Album Review : Franz Ferdinand’s ‘Always Ascending’

The early 2000s. It was a magical time for music, wasn’t it? We were overwhelmed with a wave of new and exciting bands mining post-punk and new wave artists past…

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