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HAVOC & ALCHEMIST - 'THE SILENT PARTNER' ALBUM REVIEW
Like Curren$y (who of course he worked on with this year's superb 'Carrolton Heist' mixtape) I love the fact that Alchemist is so BUSY these days. By far the best project he's dropped since last year's...
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CATS OF TRANSNISTRIA - 'DIVINE' LP &'AWAY' EP REVIEWS
Derivativeness is a pejorative in most music critique, music where you can clearly hear the sources must clearly not be 'challenging' and must be confronted for it. I think that's utter bullshit. I...
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KHOST [Deconstructed And Reconstructed By] GODFLESH – 'NEEDLES INTO THE...
HOLY JESUS BASTARD SHIT ON A FUCKING MOPED WHAT A FUCKING RACKET.Khost's 'Corrosive Shroud' was an ungainly, unpleasant, coruscatingly timely and consequently FEARsome slab of nastiness from 2015. Here...
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THALIA ZEDEK BAND - 'EVE' ALBUM REVIEW
The older you get, the more trust becomes important as a listener. As the artists you grew up with grow up with you, you come back to them and hear their growth, hear the changing cadence of what they...
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WHY WE MUST BAN THIS UKULELE FILTH NOW
Top Eight Worse FUCKING Ukelele FUCKING Breathy-Voiced FUCKING Covers For FUCKING AdvertsI can't think of any more because I don't want my head to explode with rage.1. Dogs Trust - 'I Only Want To Be...
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Advice 1
Tried to read some new record reviews today. Failed.A note for aspiring pophacks from this failed one: when you're writing about an album, at some point you're going to have to step away from facts,...
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50 FT WAVE - 'BATH WHITE' ALBUM/EP REVIEW
Bloody kids. They won't let you do yourself in. They insist instead that you first work yourself to death. Bloody music. Hate music sometimes, oft-times, most times these days. It won't let you sleep....
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Hatchet 3 - NED'S ATOMIC DUSTBIN 'BRAINBLOODVOLUME' ALBUM REVIEW, MELODY...
[HEADLINE & STANDFIRST: TRASHED!We asked NEIL KULKARNI to review the new NED'S ATOMIC DUSTBIN LP. Instead, he's written one very long sentence, and one very short one. Well, you can't always get...
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BRITAIN SEE THYSELF PART II. A POST-REFERENDUM DIARY AND A HISTORY OF BRITISH...
Tuesday June 28th, 2016.OK, a week since the vote and hey, I know the drill. Similar to those habits you kicked back into after 9-11, after 7-7. Heads down. Don't notice the people crossing the road to...
View ArticleMETAL I'M DIGGING AS THE NIGHTS DRAW IN
[OK, lots to catch up with from 2016 thus far but fuck me - first WHY DIDN'T ANYONE TELL ME ABOUTSWALLOWED AND THEIR ALBUM'LUNARTERIAL'FROM 2013? I CONSIDER THIS A MAJOR DERELICTION OF DUTY FROM ALL OF...
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"BUMBLING INEPTNESS & FASCIST INTRANSIGENCE" - I WAS THERE, EUROVISION,...
WE WUZ robbed. Christ, not the UK, I mean Belgium. Did you hear the gorgeous Melanie Cohl's gasping sigh of Saint Etienne-style cine-pop, 'Dis Oui' ("Come, if you are tired of your vacuous loves/Come,...
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POP GOES THE WEASEL WORDS #3: 'ICONIC'
Writers! Use the word 'iconic' when NOT talking about religious art of the Eastern Orthodox Church?THEN STOP WRITING. NOW. AND NEVER WRITE ANYTHING AGAIN. I MEAN IT. CLOSE YOUR LAPTOP. WALK AWAY. YOU...
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Two Words That Shit On My Soul: 'Copy Approval'
Don't get me wrong, press releases, sleeve-notes, ad-copy, that's different, I seek copy approval in those instances. No, what I'm on about is something that occurred to me yesterday, something that's...
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THE F.U.N.K GUIDE TO THE BEST MUSIC OF 2016
Don't need to go into why 2016 was the shittiest year in living memory for the planet and its people. Here's my best of 2016 i.e the music that helped me through it, with my thoughts at the time of...
View ArticleTHE F.U.N.K GUIDE TO THE BEST MUSIC OF 2016 PART II - A HIP HOP ADDENDA
Yup, inevitably I forgot loads in my first end of year list. Here's everything (I think) I forgot with wee quotes of what I wrote at the time of release. Doubtless PT III will be here anon. Anything...
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CURRENT LISTENING JANUARY 2017
Putting these here as a note to myself so I don't forget - a few new things and a couple that sneaked in at the tail-end of 2016 too late for my best-of-the-year lists. Currently these are the only...
View ArticleRIP USTAD ABDUL HALIM JAFFAR KHAN 1927-2017
Ashamed to admit I was unaware that Ustad Abdul Halim Jaffer Khan passed on last week. Some of his records are among my favourite sitar albums and this cassette from 1989 features 13 typically...
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A POP DAYDREAM PART I: THINNING THE HERD.
This was my dream. And it was so vivid it really happened. I hired a van. The expense was a concern but I needed the capacity. First the long drive north to Middlesborough. I knew he'd be at home,...
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DAFT PUNK. ASTORIA. LONDON, LIVE REVIEW 1997
Melody Maker, 20 November 1997UNDERGROUND/OVERGROUND, spectacle/black-out, in-yer-face/faceless, pop/music. Dance has to make its choices. Either it believes in its own unique power, rejecting stages,...
View ArticleCurrent listening Feb 2017: GQOM.
Never knowingly ahead of the curve. Yes, I'm slow. But this video peaked my interest.which then led me to this which is just fucking wonderful and astonishing and utterly addictive. GQOM is...
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