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Banging Colours – “Hallucinogenic Treasures from the Convolution of an Imaginative Brain” – review of a souvenir from a time that maybe never was
DIGITAL – BANDCAMP 4th December 2020 It is fifty-three years since the Summer Of Love and the heyday of hippy music in the swinging London scene. Matthias Derer has delved deep (who knows where….) to
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Young Marble Giants – “Colossal Youth” 40th anniversary reissue – a reminder of outsider genius
DOMINO RECORDS 27th November 2020 Young Marble Giants only lasted a few years and made very few recordings but had a huge influence on what came after. Of course, no-one sounds like them, but the
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Johanna Burnheart – BURNHEART
ROPEADOPE RECORDS 30 October 2020 British jazz in a very healthy place right now, despite the lack of live music and, paradoxically, part of the evidence is this German violinist, singer and composer. We’ve
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Carla Bruni – Carla Bruni – some classic grown-up French pop
UNIVERSAL MUSIC 9th October 2020 French pop of this sort lives in its own world, distinguished by an adherence to things that are easy on the ears, a focus on the song and a love
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Bee Bee Sea – “Day Ripper” – pulsing with garage rock and pop intensity
WILD HONEY RECORDS 9th October, 2020 At the outset I’m reminded of the crazed askew pop of Leeds’ finest – Cowtown. Similarly a trio and also from a famed place, Lombardy, though nowhere could
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Drive By Truckers – “The New OK” – passionately driven band say the new normal is not okay
DIGITAL RELEASE 2nd October 2020 PHYSICAL RELEASE 18th December 2020 Music as commentary and why not? An up to the minute album of tough state-of-the nation songs, rush released to make what difference they
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WILLIAM SHATNER – THE BLUES! – “Shatner’s Blues Trek is a galaxy of fun”
CLEOPATRA RECORDS 2nd October 2020 Henry Rollins totally changed my mind on William Shatner. After the over-acting in Star Trek, the TV series – TJ Hooker and an ill-advised comic book writing venture, putting
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Waco – Hope Rituals -”warm, accessible, full of fiery drive”
VENN RECORDS – 28 August 2020 It helps when a band is signed to a label you respect. Venn Records is owned by Gallows and their roster is nicely curated and a recommendation in
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The Heads – Reverberations Volume 2 – “epic kosmische gnostic jamming experience”
CARDINAL FUZZ / ROOSTER 28th August 2020 A great slab of kosmische rock, recorded live at The Thekla in Bristol on the 6th December 2001 at a festival dedicated to gnostic exploration. Gnosticism puts
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Zone Six – Any Noise Is Intended – “psychedelic stew with heady aroma”
THE ACID TEST RECORDINGS 7th August 2020 A blast from the past, this album was originally issued in 2003 and is a monster psychedelic experience that might have been drawn from anywhere in the
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