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Album Review: Super Furry Animals - Dark Days/Light Years
8.5/10

In a recent Pitchfork review Animal Collective declared that it must be “weird to be in a band with good musicians”, referring to the fact that they basically view themselves as electronic collagists than a band in the strict (i.e., formally trained) sense. It is an interesting [...]

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Labour of love
6/10
Die hard SFA fans will be queuing up to award their latest effort five stars, so it seemed necessary to put forward an outsider’s point of view. I am hardly new to the band, but wouldn’t call myself a fan. I enjoy a few tracks on Radiator and liked their last record, Phantom [...]

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Who’s the Daddy?
7/10
Out Hud is a fearlessly imaginative and unusual clash of post-rock, funk, acid, electro and house. Often sounding freeform but nevertheless packed with complexities, each track is an instrumental journey full of stylistic twists and turns - none least ‘L Train Is a Swell Train and I Don’t Want to Hear You Indies [...]

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