(Fiction)Like a particularly hopeless dame in an especially repetitive melodrama, indie rock, so the story goes, is perpetually in need of saving. It’s a strangely persistent narrative, one that makes the British music press seem like some poor old esc…
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Spector: Enjoy it While it Lasts – review
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James Yorkston: I Was a Cat from a Book – review
(Domino)Three stars feels a bit churlishly ungenerous to James Yorkston, a man with a vision so defined and individual that you feel compelled to take him entirely on his own terms, or not at all. His fifth album of original material – and his first …
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R Stevie Moore: Lo Fi High Fives – review
(O Genesis)Despite being, in a sense, born into the US music industry – his father Bob was one of 50s/60s Nashville’s top-tier session bass players – R Stevie Moore has spent his strange and rather wonderful career firmly outside it. Since 1968 –…
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Dead Can Dance: Anastasis – review
(PIAS)Anastasis: the Greek word for resurrection. Before you even press play, you’ve understood three things about Dead Can Dance’s first album in 16 years: it’s erudite, portentous in its introspection, and finds a band whose back catalogue is a kind …
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Cheek Mountain Thief: Cheek Mountain Thief – review
(Full Time Hobby)In 2006, Tunng’s Mike Lindsay visited Iceland, falling in love with a girl and the small, snow-covered northern fishing town of Husavik. Four years later, having lost touch with the girl and drifted back to his old life in London, he f…
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