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Leaps - The Pavement-y Leaps is one of the most direct songs that the Broken blokes have written. Its straightforwardly poppy, a happy missionary-position endorsement of shagging in the afternoon, with Mick Roman providing the bulging blue vein of a beat. But Hold On To Your Love contorts them into...

Hello Love - Where do bands like this go to die? Like a trusty old dog, these groups keep peddling reliably melodic alt.country at an album a year like they could do it forever. Except no one will put them down because they're too nice. Maybe there's this pub somewhere and they hang...

HOWE GELB & A BAND OF GYPSIES 'ALEGRIAS' released on March 21st on Fire Records -

In 2006, Howe Gelb embarked on a journey with a gospel choir with the result the astounding, critically acclaimed album 'Sno' Angel Like You'. This new chapter sees Howe embellish a troop of flamenco playing gypsies, including the virtuoso guitarist Raimundo Amador (collaborated with Bjork and BB King) and is...

Half Man Half Biscuit - All of our songs sound the same sings Nigel Blackwell in the coda of Lord Herefords Knob, proving the theory by following this with choruses from Keeping Two Chevrons Apart and (Youre The Reason Why) Paradise Lost. Theres some truth in this but the point is surely the question...

Magnolia Electric Co. - Josephine (2009) -

On the new Magnolia Electric Co. album Josephine, a solid and satisfying 14-song set, Jason Molina does what he does best. He writes songs about stuff that's usually hard to see: ghosts, secrets, heartbreak, loneliness, regret, hope, horizons, faraway forever eyes, being halfway between the moon and ending it all,...

Bonnie Prince Billy : Beware -

Following a series of collaborations (Scout Niblett, Cheyenne Mize, Pink Nasty, her brother Black Nasty, and of course a cameo in R. Kelly's hip-hopera Trapped In The Closet) Will Oldham again adopts his Bonnie Prince Billy guise to deliver this very satisfying album. Trumpeted as his "most ambitious record to...

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