Demob Happy

What are your tongs like? 9/10 Wow! Not much music like this around. This is to folk what the Flaming Lips is to, err, Rock. Completely tripped-out but completely accessible, it is acoustic music pushed to its literal extreme, a modern day ‘Pipers at the Gates of Dawn’. Underscored by often tribal rhythms, the Collective [...]

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The band for whom ‘Oceanic’ was coined 7/10 It is not difficult to understand why AR Kane’s brand of pop failed to ignite the charts on its 1988 release. Despite its pop leanings, the songs on this album are ostensibly structureless, with the sweet soulful vocals drifting in and out of focus. It certainly predates [...]

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Unrelenting 3/10 I don’t really see the point of this. Jason Forrest – aka DJ Donna Summer – likes to cut and paste old disco and funk together in a kind of post modern mish-mash that is more IDM than Avalanches. It is click-and-cut of the most filtered, tinny variety, there is nothing of the [...]

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Decent album, terrible name for a record 7/10 Unfamiliar with Bark Psychosis’ apparently seminal debut ‘Hex’ I can provide a semi-objective review of this album. Lush instrumentation, enhanced with electronics, with hushed male and female (alternating) vocals – often distant in the mix – make for a rich listening experience that is brooding and languid [...]

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