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Album Review: Richard Swift - Atlantic Ocean
8/10
Often compared to Harry Nilsson, Richard Swift shares the 60s maverick’s category-avoiding, highly melodic and eccentic brand of pop rock. Swift, who prefers the analogue four track production techniques of the Nilsson era, recorded ‘The Atlantic Ocean’ - his latest for Secretly Canadian - in Wilco’s loft (Wilco’s [...]

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The Empire strikes black
8.5/10
Micah P Hinson’s fourth album - the first I’ve heard since his powerful debut ‘Micah P Hinson and the Gospel of Progress‘ - is an accomplished work and the sound of a prolific artist heading for an artistic peak. Produced by alt-rock mixing guru John Congleton, renowned for the dark gloss put [...]

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Dawn choruses
8.5/10
The first thing you notice when listening to ‘At Dawn‘ if, like me, you’ve approached their back catalogue, er, backwards, is how faithful it is to a kind of alt-country orthodoxy when compared to the more magpie-like tendencies of ‘It Still Moves‘ and ‘Z‘. Arguably it is more a consistency of mood [...]

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