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  White Indie Soul Boy Extraordinaire

  Posted: May 3rd, 2006, 10:37pm PDT by Phil

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  My good friend Stephen lent me a copy of Lewis Taylor's 1st album a few years ago and I was immediately conflicted. On the one hand there was something completely awful about it. At first glance the vocals can sound just like that ever abominable Hucknall from Simply Red or one of the many 'good' singers from American / Australian Idol. At the very least it's too much of a homage to 60's R
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  fuse - release

  Posted: April 21st, 2006, 2:00am PDT by Phil

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  Another lovely thing from A Slow Rip, if I do say so myself : "fuse-release"
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  A Procession

  Posted: April 11th, 2006, 3:23am PDT by Phil

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  I've listened to a lot of music recently. In fact, I've listened to far too much music. As always, I've been trying to rediscover that enormous teenage rush when something completely vibrant and exciting seemed to appear every other week. Ofcourse that's not going to happen again because (a) I'm substantially older than I was when I was a teen and (b) there's just so much music out there to
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  Lisbon

  Posted: April 3rd, 2006, 3:48am PDT by Phil

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  Lisbon was one of my favourite cities all those years ago when I travelled (cripes, it's almost 20 years to the day). We arrived via train and got a tidy, shabby room near the terminus and spent days just wandering round - all that white stone blinding us; the natty trams up cobblestone streets; robust Fado singers and guitarrados (still reminding me of the theme from The Third Man). Nice people
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  Bull In A Ming Vase Indeed

  Posted: March 21st, 2006, 8:03pm PST by Phil

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  I'd listened to most of Roy Harper's albums throughout my later teens and early twenties but only really loved HQ because it was full of rock band instrumentation and left the simple guitar and voice on just a few tracks. Ya see, I really, really hated singer songwriters at that stage of my life, even one as out of place and individual as Harper. Then, just recently, I read a good review of the
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  I'm slowly but surely starting to record music a...

  Posted: March 17th, 2006, 3:15pm PST by Phil

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  I'm slowly but surely starting to record music again even if I've had some problems this past year with my spare-room studio and my inability to get a true handle on the technology. But the results are OK at least. mp3: Dusty 12 Drone (beware - 12mb) This is cracked drone, split chanell spittle, weird chord, 3 note bass and kick all done with slightly twinged presets on the Alesis Ion - a very
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  I'm slowly but surely starting to record ...

  Posted: March 17th, 2006, 3:15pm PST by Phil

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  I'm slowly but surely starting to record music again even if I've had some problems this past year with my spare-room studio and my inability to get a true handle on the technology. But the results are OK at least. mp3: Dusty 12 Drone (beware - 12mb) This is cracked drone, split chanell spittle, weird chord, 3 note bass and kick all done with slightly twinged presets on the Alesis Ion - a very
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  Babs

  Posted: March 3rd, 2006, 2:43pm PST by Phil

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  Just a short note... Apparently synth-pop hasn't died just yet. And that's a good thing. Especially when the songs have memorable, hummable melodies; gorgeous chord changes; bleepy bloopy synths; rhythms that make me want to dance all robotic and lyrics I don't understand: mp3: Barbara Morgenstern - The Operator This is from her soon to be released album "The Grass Is Greener". I can say no
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  Stop Posing, Ugly Boy

  Posted: February 26th, 2006, 11:59pm PST by Phil

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  I've always liked prog-rock but I do know that a lot of it is charmless and irksome at best and excruciating at it's worst. However, I still can't understand the critical blank spot it creates for most "rock" reviewers. I've recently spent hours reading Toby Creswell's dull and predictable "1001 Songs" (1001 blog entries by any other name but it's supposedly more auspicious because it's been
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  The Ricochet Remake

  Posted: January 23rd, 2006, 6:20pm PST by Phil

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  I've always loved the frission that synthesisers bring to rock music. In the right hands they can give a graininess to a song that nothing else matches - the sound of electricity in the air. These are some of the touchstones for me... mp3: Roxy Music - Remake / Remodel So there's that driving Thompson beat; the hard, angular Manzanera guitar against a whomping bassline; Ferry's typically over