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The Horrors – Luminous (Remote Control) ALBUM REVIEW

“THE ONES THAT GOT AWAY” – A SHORT SERIES OF 2014 ALBUM REVIEWS THAT NEVER SAW THE LIGHT OF DAY, FOR SOME REASON. REVIEWS RARELY TALK about sound design, but Luminous makes the conversation necessary:...

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Luckless – Vindication Blues (Border) ALBUM REVIEW

“THE ONES THAT GOT AWAY” – A SHORT SERIES OF 2014 ALBUM REVIEWS THAT NEVER SAW THE LIGHT OF DAY, FOR SOME REASON.   IVY ROSSITER’S 2012 debut as Luckless hovered on the edge of greatness, with its...

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Grass House – A Sun Full And Drowning (Marshall Teller) ALBUM REVIEW

“THE ONES THAT GOT AWAY” – A SHORT SERIES OF 2014 ALBUM REVIEWS THAT NEVER SAW THE LIGHT OF DAY, FOR SOME REASON.   ANYONE FAMILIAR WITH Australian group The Go-betweens will find English group Grass...

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Devils Elbow – Absolute Domain (Hit Your Head) ALBUM REVIEW

“THE ONES THAT GOT AWAY” – A SHORT SERIES OF 2014 ALBUM REVIEWS THAT NEVER SAW THE LIGHT OF DAY, FOR SOME REASON.   I FIRST HEARD Devil’s Elbow on an excellent EP produced in Napier by the legendary...

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Tinariwen – Emmaar (Pias) ALBUM REVIEW

“THE ONES THAT GOT AWAY” – A SHORT SERIES OF 2014 ALBUM REVIEWS THAT NEVER SAW THE LIGHT OF DAY, FOR SOME REASON.   THEIR SIXTH ALBUM, but the first to swap their Malian home away from home for Joshua...

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Golden Curtain – Dream City (Independent) ALBUM REVIEW

“THE ONES THAT GOT AWAY” – A SHORT SERIES OF 2014 ALBUM REVIEWS THAT NEVER SAW THE LIGHT OF DAY, FOR SOME REASON.   REMEMBER THAT ONCE popular – and hugely irritating – line “it’s all good”? Well, it...

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Mastodon – Once More ‘Round The Sun (Warner) ALBUM REVIEW

“THE ONES THAT GOT AWAY” – A SHORT SERIES OF 2014 ALBUM REVIEWS THAT NEVER SAW THE LIGHT OF DAY, FOR SOME REASON.   MASTODON HAS BEEN on the receiving end of so much gushing praise as the supposed...

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Tom Vek – Luck (Moshi Moshi) ALBUM REVIEW

“THE ONES THAT GOT AWAY” – A SHORT SERIES OF 2014 ALBUM REVIEWS THAT NEVER SAW THE LIGHT OF DAY, FOR SOME REASON.   THERE’S SOMETHING LIKABLE about Thomas Timothy Vernon-Kell’s snotty monotone raps,...

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Kingswood – Microscopic Wars (Dew Process) ALBUM REVIEW

  “THE ONES THAT GOT AWAY” – A SHORT SERIES OF 2014 ALBUM REVIEWS THAT NEVER SAW THE LIGHT OF DAY, FOR SOME REASON.   AUSSIE ROCKERS KINGSWOOD won’t win any awards for alt-rock cool, but their...

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Eb & Sparrow – Eb & Sparrow (Home Alone) ALBUM REVIEW

  “THE ONES THAT GOT AWAY” – A SHORT SERIES OF 2014 ALBUM REVIEWS THAT NEVER SAW THE LIGHT OF DAY, FOR SOME REASON.   IT’S ALL ABOUT the throat. Ebony Lamb has a voice that refuses to just tumble...

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Daby Touré – Amonafi (Cumbancha/Ode) ALBUM REVIEW

THERE’S A CERTAIN sound that reeks of long dazed days under the hot sun of WOMAD festivals. Don’t get me wrong: I’ve witnessed some extraordinary – even life-changing – performances at WOMAD, but the...

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THE JUJU JUKEBOX: Todd Rundgren – Global (Esoteric Antenna)

TODD RUNDGREN DISMISSES a lot of the extraneous chaff that can go with recording, by choosing electronic landscape as backdrop for his melodic pop masterpieces, of which there are at least a couple on...

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Mind The Journey – Color In The Gray Machine (No label) CD REVIEW

SELF-PRODUCED BOFFIN Spencer Sabo churns out his polyglot brand of psychedelic synth-pop from his Boston, Massachusetts basement, under the name Mind The Journey. On his debut album, Color In The Gray...

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Tehnoloogiline Paike – Technological Sun (Fantastic Planet) CD REVIEW

THE ALBUM TITLE Technological Sun is the English translation of this Estonian experimental electronic trio’s band name. With the music recorded entirely on analogue instruments, the opener ‘This Means...

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Roo Panes – Paperweights (CRC/Southbound) ALBUM REVIEW

LIKE SO MANY 21st Century songsmiths, Roo Panes arrives with a second album that has the weight of a thousand accolades behind it, the artist already having benefited from the inarguable fact of...

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Bryan Deister – Spines Of The Heart (No label) CD REVIEW

BRYAN DEISTER’S BIO claims he ventures off into “All of the 20th century composition techniques and styles.” Ambitious. Not many have succeeded in crossing multiple boundaries, so I listened with...

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Tom Vek – Luck (Moshi Moshi) ALBUM REVIEW

“THE ONES THAT GOT AWAY” – A SHORT SERIES OF 2014 ALBUM REVIEWS THAT NEVER SAW THE LIGHT OF DAY, FOR SOME REASON.   THERE’S SOMETHING LIKABLE about Thomas Timothy Vernon-Kell’s snotty monotone raps,...

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Kingswood – Microscopic Wars (Dew Process) ALBUM REVIEW

  “THE ONES THAT GOT AWAY” – A SHORT SERIES OF 2014 ALBUM REVIEWS THAT NEVER SAW THE LIGHT OF DAY, FOR SOME REASON.   AUSSIE ROCKERS KINGSWOOD won’t win any awards for alt-rock cool, but their...

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Eb & Sparrow – Eb & Sparrow (Home Alone) ALBUM REVIEW

  “THE ONES THAT GOT AWAY” – A SHORT SERIES OF 2014 ALBUM REVIEWS THAT NEVER SAW THE LIGHT OF DAY, FOR SOME REASON.   IT’S ALL ABOUT the throat. Ebony Lamb has a voice that refuses to just tumble...

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Daby Touré – Amonafi (Cumbancha/Ode) ALBUM REVIEW

THERE’S A CERTAIN sound that reeks of long dazed days under the hot sun of WOMAD festivals. Don’t get me wrong: I’ve witnessed some extraordinary – even life-changing – performances at WOMAD, but the...

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