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The Pixies – Energies undimmed after thirty years
Live at Leeds O2 Academy 17th September 2019 Is there a better way to open a Pixies gig than Gouge Away, with it’s fantastic surf guitar and epic sweep? Then again, there are a
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Binker Golding – “Abstractions of Reality Past & Incredible Feathers” – pure unalloyed jazz pleasure
Gearbox Records 27 Sept, 2019 Binker Golding is a lyrical saxophone player, yet capable of going way out there into abstraction. His work with Moses Boyd was fascinating and exciting and he has played
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The Ashton Jones Project – “Toast” – It toasts your ass and sets your soles on fire
FLASH TOWN RECORDS 13th September 2019 Ashton Jones is a very promising soul and funk artist, based on the evidence of this debut album. It toasts your ass and sets your soles on fire. A
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Emily Breeze – “Rituals” – ego death coupled with a side of nameless longing
SUGAR SHACK RECORDS 6th September, 2019 “When I was young I thought I’d bring the world to its knees / By smoking skunk in the daytime and reading Socrates” is the opening couplet from this
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Hawkestrel – “The Future Is Us” and the Hawk universe will go on forever
CLEOPATRA RECORDS August 9th, 2019 I don’t know where or when these tracks were laid down and they can’t have been all together in the studio, since at least two of the line-up are
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loscil – “Equivalents” – an album that contains a whole other world
KRANKY 16 August 2019 I hear the jerky staccato application of disc brakes on a train rolling across a high, smooth glacier. The remoteness lets the percussive on/off sounds permeate. That high, cold environment
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Living Colour – Wild living in Leeds
Live at The Brudenell Club, Leeds 25th July 2019 It’s a sign of the times: Bands touring their big hit album from back in the day. It’s an acceptance that audiences want what they
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Caspar Brötzmann Massaker – “Der Abend Der Schwarzen Folklore” / “Koksofen” – screaming jazz feedback and heavy rock
Southern Lord 19th July 2019 A fascinating experimental guitarist in the heavy mode, Caspar Brotzmann plays with shapes and sound over four lengthy tracks on the first of these offerings, 1992’s Der Abend Der
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LINGUA IGNOTA – “CALIGULA” – could be the most intense thing you hear this year
Profound Lore 19th July 2019 LINGUA IGNOTA means unknown language, like Hildegard von Bingen used in trances and like Kristin Hayter here shifts into occasionally; a language beyond those that humans know, one that
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LA Witch – Live at Headrow House, Leeds
4th July 2019 I’ve never seen the small and centrally-located Headrow House full. Why is that? Especially surprising when LA Witch tell us they’ve been to Leeds a few times before. It doesn’t help
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