Demob Happy

The best album of the last ten years? 10/10 I know for certain that not all the music I have bought and am listening to recently will stand the test of time. It is a pessimistic assertion but true to say that a great deal of modern music is ephemeral and quickly exhausted. However, it [...]

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Brit Daniel’s Mathematical Mind 8/10 Spoon are a singular American band at once willfully experimental and tightly committed to pop and rock traditions. Their sound is bluesy and angular, but has little in common with the current renaissance of post-punk and new wave. It could be more closely identified with The Beatles, of which there [...]

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Float away… 8/10 ’20 Ways to Float Through Walls’ may sound like a cryptic title but it’s a fairly literal description of the boundary-hopping eclecticism featured on this fine compilation by the Crammed label. I am by no means an afficianado of ‘World’ music and rarely buy music that might fall into that category. I [...]

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