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Album review: Various Artists: Creation Artifact: The Dawn of Creation Records 1983-85 (Cherry Red)

It’s a shame Creation Records is now known as the home of bloated rock gods Oasis when in reality it was the ground-breaking label that created DIY indie pop. It…

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Album Review: The Kinks – Sunny Afternoon

Okay, so what do we have here? Another Kinks Kompilation? Aren’t there enough of those already? The latest attempt to distil the brilliance of The Kinks onto two CD’s ties…

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EP Review: Talay – ‘Piece By Piece’

At this point it’s an easy thing to take the internet and the availability of music for granted which has increased over the years but one of the aspects I still love…

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Album Review: Killing Joke – Pylon

Killing Joke occupy that interstitial space between order and chaos, between sanity and madness, between the temporal and the spiritual, between darkness and light…that moment just before the apocalypse consumes…

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Album Review: Hurts – Surrender

I must admit to having a bit of a crush on Hurts’ frontman Theo Hutchcraft. He is stylish, debonair, with a dry wit. As a vocalist he manages to pour…

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Album Review: John Grant – Grey Tickles, Black Pressure

For me, like many people, John Grant first appeared on my radar following the release of Queen of Denmark, his gloriously heartbreaking collaboration with Midlake and simply one of the…

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Album Review: Rolo Tomassi – Grievances

Released earlier this year Grievances is arguably the bands best collection of work yet. Rolo Tomassi are a band that don’t tend to shy away from experimentation blending a whole…

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Album Review: Luke Haines – British Nuclear Bunkers

Luke Haines is one of Britain’s genuine rock n roll eccentrics. As lead singer of The Auteurs he created some of the greatest albums of the era, including my personal…

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Album Review: Die Nerven – ‘Out’

‘Out’ is the third LP release, by Stuttgart post-punk trio Die Nerven. I am delighted that this found it’s way to me via Ben Lynch at PinDrop Publicity – just the other day,…

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Album Review: Zombi – Shape Shift

Listening to the heavy synth band Zombi is like zoning out to the opening credits of some imaginary sci fi or horror film. As you listen to the synth strings…

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