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From an old record box: Berry Gordy’s The Last Dragon (Original Soundtrack)

A Motown martial arts movie ? You heard. In 1985 Berry Gordy produced what ace critic Roger Ebert described at the time as a “great near-miss”. It managed to gross…

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Incoming: Me, Myself and Mum

A cheerful and inventive comic confessional about Guillaume Gallienne’s upbringing, his relations with his mother, and his eventual embracing of his inner heterosexual after growing up as a female-identified boy…

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DVD Review: Goodbye to Language

Jean-Luc Godard has never been one to play by the rules. Even at the august age of 83, his unflinching desire to bury down into the very fabric of cinema…

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Psych Insight: 20 Essential Psych Albums of 2014

This year I have teamed up with Adam Harmsworth of Psychedelic Drone Rock to bring you twenty albums that have really inspired us in 2014. After last year’s glut of fantastic new…

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See: Screaming Maldini – Solar System (Music Video)

I’ve been reluctant to write this post, knowing that it may well be one of the last I write about Screaming Maldini. In case you’ve missed every recent post about…

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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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From an old record box: The Mission – Hands Across The Ocean

It’s another product of the ‘Jive Alive’ era. I can’t think how else I would have ended up listening to this goth-indie-classic rock-folk mash-up of a band. Only a few years…

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Track: Baywaves – The Freak Kingdom

We wrote about the former Spanish two piece (now expanded to a quartet) with their debut track Dreaming. They’ve returned onto our radar with a new single, The Freak Kingdom.…

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From an old record box: Belly – Seal My Fate

It has become a consistent starting point for the old ‘old record box’ articles. I wonder how the disc in question has come to gather dust – physically and virtually,…

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Premiere: Fighting Caravans release video for “Bootmakers to the King”

We’ve been able to keep a close eye on Leeds quintet, The Fighting Caravans. Preferring to stay out of the live setting while they hone both their sounds and their…

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From an old record box: Berry Gordy’s The Last Dragon (Original Soundtrack)

Incoming: Me, Myself and Mum

DVD Review: Goodbye to Language

Psych Insight: 20 Essential Psych Albums of 2014

See: Screaming Maldini – Solar System (Music Video)

Album Review; Ariel Pink – Pom Pom

From an old record box: The Mission – Hands Across The Ocean

Track: Baywaves – The Freak Kingdom

From an old record box: Belly – Seal My Fate

Premiere: Fighting Caravans release video for “Bootmakers to the King”