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Not Forgotten: Half Man Half Biscuit – 90 Bisodol (Crimond)

Even after all these years I find there’s something very admirable about Half Man Half Biscuit and the way they have conducted themselves throughout the last quarter of a century.…

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Album Review: A Sagittariun – Dream Ritual

When I was growing up there was this sort of obsession with fast food. McDonalds were springing up everywhere, and if you had to wait for longer than ten minutes…

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Say Psych: Album Review – Stars Are Our Home by Black Hearted Brother (Sonic Cathedral)

Neil Halstead will be familiar to many as one of the main driving forces behind shoe gaze stalwarts Slowdive and country folk band Mojave 3, and is part of the…

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Album Review: Yuck- Glow & Behold

Yuck dropped one of the most surprising and enjoyable chunks of music nostalgia in 2011 with their debut album. There was plenty to sit back and get reminiscent about on…

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NOT FORGOTTEN – GROUNDHOGS – SPLIT

Oddly enough, the first time I heard of The Groundhogs was a minor ‘Forgotten Heroes’ piece on them in Melody Maker back in the late 90s as apparently a number…

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NOT FORGOTTEN – THE FLAMING LIPS – TRANSMISSIONS FROM THE SATELLITE HEART

Like many of us here in the UK I only discovered the multifaceted joys of The Flaming Lips after they had released the glorious, world-beating, The Soft Bulletin. Being the…

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EP: Just Lions – Paper Cage

A heavy, heavy sound. Juddering with bass and muscle, particularly from the guitar. This isn’t the sweet, wishful Just Lions of “Monsters” from earlier this year. Perhaps it’s the basements…

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NOT FORGOTTEN – EELS – HOMBRE LOBO: 12 SONGS OF DESIRE

Lust, desire and romance have been the most popular subject matter for songs for millennia now – it’s pretty much what keeps the whole music industry going regardless of genre,…

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Say Psych: Album Review – Lupus by Dead Sea Apes (Cardinal Fuzz)

Ding! The bell at the beginning of this album seems to tell us that we are entering some sort of sacred space, and certainly the processive drone of the first…

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Album Review: The Provincial Archive – Maybe We Could Be Holy

“We hope for a warmer November But we’re changing with the air It’ll be colder soon And we’ll be in the darkness through the daytime Waiting for phone-calls from your…

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