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Not Forgotten: Super Furry Animals – Fuzzy Logic

Released at a time when seemingly every reasonably new(ish) band within the UK and Northern Ireland who featured at least one guitar player was pigeonholed as Britpop, Super Furry Animals’…

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Reissue: Terry Allen – Lubbock (On Everything)

I’m not a huge fan of ‘country’ music. Sure, I can appreciate its narrative qualities, I have a well chosen Johnny Cash compilation in my album collection, I love the…

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Not Forgotten: XTC – Skylarking

To the casual observer, by the time Skylarking was released in the mid-80s XTC looked washed up. Having had to stop touring in 1982 due to Andy Partridge’s crippling stage…

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Not Forgotten: Half Man Half Biscuit – And Some Fell on Stony Ground

Half Man Half Biscuit are one of those bands where if you’re a fan you either have, or want, everything they’ve ever recorded (a pristine copy of “No Regrets” still…

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Not Forgotten: Babybird – Ugly Beautiful

It’s difficult to comprehend just how much airplay Babybird’s “You’re Gorgeous” received back in 1996. Listening back to it now, it still stands up as a great pop song, albeit…

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Not Forgotten: Rick Wakeman – Journey to the Centre of the Earth

It can’t be easy having been the interesting member of Yes. While the rest of that most hilariously pompous prog-rock act had their heads firmly jammed up their own derrieres,…

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Not Forgotten: The Hold Steady – Boys and Girls in America

By September 2006 The Hold Steady had already released Almost Killed Me and Separation Sunday, two of the finest rock and roll records of the millennium, and were poised to…

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Not Forgotten: Little Feat – The Last Record Album

With a career that had already seen them perfect a spicy blend of southern rock, blues, country and soulful funk elements, by 1975’s The Last Record Album, Little Feat were…

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Not Forgotten: Blonde Redhead – Masculin féminin

Seemingly permanently entrenched in the fringes of the independent scene, Blonde Redhead have been with us for 23 years now, releasing nine albums for four different record labels. On 30…

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Not Forgotten: They Might Be Giants – Mink Car

Having extracted themselves from the Elektra record label, They Might Be Giants spent the late 90s keeping relatively low key, with the live Severe Tyre Damage and the early internet…

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