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TRACK: Palace Winter feat. Jason Lytle – ‘The Deeper End’: ‘Think Kraftwerk playing country’

SINGER-guitarist Carl Coleman and pianist-producer Caspar Hesselager are the musicians behind Danish-Australian duo Palace Winter; they’ve been plying a line in grand, intelligent pop since Waiting For The World To…

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Track: The Lazy Eyes – Cheesy Love Song

Everything old may well be new again – there is a degree of amusement that a fair percentage of popular contemporary music is very similar to stuff that has come…

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Album Review: Grandaddy – Last Place

In the early years of the last decade, I saw Grandaddy as one of a trio of bands that opened the doors to a style of music I still occasionally…

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Not Forgotten: Grandaddy – Sumday

In the process of comprehensively out-OK Computered Radiohead with the stunning The Sophtware Slump in 2000, Grandaddy had gained an enviable reputation for musical brilliance, but that hadn’t really translated…

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Not Forgotten: Grandaddy – The Sophtware Slump

A few days ago, a section of social media broke. There was no huge public outcry, and certainly, the vast percentage of users barely noticed and those that did notice,…

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A buyers guide to Grandaddy

Grandaddy were one of those bands who struggled to catch a break. They had all the talent in the world, great tunes, a fine songwriter in Jason Lytle and had…

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NOT FORGOTTEN – JASON LYTLE – YOURS TRULY, THE COMMUTER

“The last thing I heard I was left for dead” – Now that’s an arresting way to open your solo debut, especially if you were the main creative force of…

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