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Bloods – U & M E
“It’s been a while, but Bloods’ tub-thumping joy remains as fresh as ever. Although “U & M E” is built from guitars it’s got a strong retro-futurist vibe, with the high-register riff nagging and phasing and pretending to be a synth. I bet it sounds like a bomb going off on stage, but on record […]
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Wawawow – The Big Cookoff
“The Underground Stage and Wawawow started near about the same time, and I once wrote that an early track sounded like visiting some demented future. Time has not calmed them. Nine Inch Nails, Plastic Bertrand, and the soundtrack to the weirdest dystopian anime you can imagine collide head-on here like trucks and meteors. It produces […]
Jeremy Neale – I Still Want You Around Me
“Too few remember Scritti Politti, but Jeremy Neale is the Green Gartside of these times. Gartside wrote a string of pop songs that sounded like merely fashionable and danceable tunes but were – secretly – a lot weirder and occasionally a lot darker. Jeremy Nealeβs latest is a direct descendent, sounding on its face like […]
