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Talkin To The Trees
Neil Young And The Chrome Hearts
Recent years have seen the unearthing of legendary vintage lost albums from the era (such as Homegrown, recorded in 1974), whilst Young's first take, best take philosophy has gifted his best works a timeless freshness whereas the more painstakingly polished produce by Young's contemporaries sound unmistakably chained to their time. Whereas Young's peers have either slowed down their rate of production match fluctuating levels of inspiration, the legendary...
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Crying The Neck
Patrick Wolf
After a decade-long recording hiatus, Patrick Wolf released the EP The Night Safari in April 2023. The mouth of misfortune conjured up on the song "Enter the Day" had spat him out at last and he landed in East Kent, just where he needed to be. The London-born multi-instrumentalist, often pigeonholed as a folktronica artist, was still only 28 when his fifth LP, 2011's Lupercalia, cracked the UK Top 40. "Things are looking up, up, up," his sonorous...
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Death in Vegas
Richard Fearless returns with an intoxicating mix of an album where darker realisations and hedonistic beats compete for the same headspace Music for machines does not have to be calculated or even pre-meditated. Just ask Richard Fearless, whose Death In Vegas project returns for the first time in ten years. Where once he was part of the big beat explosion in the mid-1990s, Fearless is now very much ploughing his own furrow. Death Mask turns to drone,...
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Pulp
On their first album since 2001's We Love Life, Pulp offer a warmth and immediacy rare in late-career revivals. More feels richly lived-in yet remarkably contemporary, lifted by Richard Jones' lush, cinematic string arrangements - they're particularly striking on Partial Eclipse, whose outro drifts into a moody, Giacchino-esque beauty, reminiscent of the title card score from Lost. Album opener Spike Island instantly charms with producer James Ford's...
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