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A buyers’ guide to Kirsty MacColl

Has any songwriter ever been more perfectly human than Kirsty MacColl? Intelligent, witty, wilful, vulnerable, contrary, mind-bogglingly talented, possessing a steely resolve and yet still coming across as approachable and…

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Not Forgotten: The Divine Comedy – A Short Album About Love

Released at a time where the fashion was to fill the whole run time of a CD with as much material as possible regardless of quality, all in the name…

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Not Forgotten: E – A Man Called E

For two decades now E of Eels has steadily established himself as the premier purveyor of mature male angst. Literate, tuneful, and capable of creating great pop songs that can…

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Not Forgotten: Frank Black – Francis

How are you getting on with the latest incarnation of Pixies? Some of it’s OK. We got Head Carrier on the strength bouncing around to Um Chagga Lagga when it…

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Not Forgotten: Rock Bass – Garbles

With their debut, Garbles, it’s quite obvious that Rock Bass do power pop. However, the trouble with a lot of power pop is that so much of it can sound…

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Not Forgotten: The Flaming Lips – The Soft Bulletin

September 2002. It is a time of personal misery and darkness. I’d sold the house I’d worked so hard to afford and had struggled to find a new place, so…

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Not Forgotten: Ed Harcourt – Here Be Monsters

At the time of its 2001 release, Ed Harcourt’s Here Be Monsters was released to a modest amount of fanfare and expectation of great things to come, however for some…

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Not Forgotten: Tom Waits – Nighthawks at the Diner

Sometimes it is impressive what can be achieved with proverbial smoke and mirrors. Promotions, relationships, business deals. Sometimes the appearance that you are something can get you further than actually…

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Not Forgotten: Levellers – Levelling the Land

There was a time in my late teens when Levellers were a genuinely important band to me. They were a genuinely rocking folk band with a good ear for melody,…

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Not Forgotten: Ben Folds – Supersunnyspeedgraphic, The LP

An odds and sods release which lifts the majority of its material from a trio of previously released EPs, rather than a full album in its own right, Supersunnyspeedgraphic, The…

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