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Not Forgotten: Julian Cope – Fried

Recorded at a point where the popular music press were largely of the opinion that Julian Cope was struggling to relocate his muse following the detonation of The Teardrop Explodes, Fried is the album…

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Album Review: Gov’t Mule – Dark Side of the Mule

“By the way, which one’s The Mule?” Recorded Halloween 2008, Dark Side of the Mule finds one of America’s greatest rock bands covering the material of one of the…

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Album Review: BC Camplight – How to Die in the North

Okay, confession time. Prior to hearing How to Die in the North, I was utterly ignorant of the work of BC Camplight. Simply put, his was not a name that…

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Album Review: The Krayons – Ready, Steady, Nuke!

The original ‘angry young men’ were, as you may well know, a group of lower middle/working class writers from the 1950’s. Disillusioned by society, they weren’t afraid, and in…

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Say Psych: Album Review, Create and Consume by The Love Dimension

The thing that strikes me about the opening to this album is how it manages to sound both hot and cold and the same time. There is an icey tingle…

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Album Review : Language of Shapes :: Mother Mountain

Language of Shapes inhabit a musical world all their own. Not that they don’t allow certain musical influences to seep into that world and show themselves now and then, but…

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Album Review: Taylor Swift – 1989

I’d intended to go in one direction when I began writing this, that being to just do a straight up review of the record. As it is I’ve ended…

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Psych Insight: Album Review, Mugstar/ Cosmic Dead split (Evil Hoodoo)

I have to admit that I’m not a big fan of split LPs, I know that they are a great thing for many bands since it gets their music out…

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Album Review : My Drunken Haze – My Drunken Haze

One listen to Athens, Greece quintet My Drunken Haze and their self-titled debut, you can tell they’ve done their homework. Their sound is colored with hues found on a late-60s…

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Album Review; Ariel Pink – Pom Pom

I must confess to being late to the Ariel Pink party. His debut album ‘House Arrest’ came out in 2002, completely under my radar. I stumbled across this new album,…

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