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Album Review: worriedaboutsatan - Arrivals

FIRST PUBLISHED AT THE LINE OF BEST FIT
8.5/10
Will electronica make a comeback at the end of the decade? It seems that having gone organic in the 00s with folktronica, many electronica artists have been second-guessed recently by folk artists (from Bon Iver to Iron & Wine) augmenting their music with pro-tooled [...]

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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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FIRST PUBLISHED AT THE LINE OF BEST FIT
Exile on ‘25th Street’
8.5/10
‘NYC‘ is Kieran Hebden’s (aka Four Tet) fourth collaboration with veteran jazz drummer Steve Reid and while I won’t pretend that I have heard the other three, the word in the blogosphere is that this is the most equal of their partnerships, with Hebden given [...]

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Quite interesting, incidentally …
6/10
I have been a keen advoate of all things Damon Albarn post-Graham Coxon (i.e., Blur’s ‘Think Tank‘ and beyond) so was understandably quite excited by the album release of ‘Monkey, Journey to the West‘. I had not seen the Chinese opera-spectacular which this album scores but I didn’t let that dissuade me [...]

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