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Did Orangeism Pave The Way For The Atom Bomb? I Am Kurious Oranj At 30
Mark E Smith shared an artistic vision with William Blake, says Alex Weston-Noond and The Annotated Fall online resource of the group's (oft overlooked) tenth album, but its real power lies in the way it deals with more standard themes of politics and breakup
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A Man Escaped: The Style Council’s Confessions Of A Pop Group 30 Years On
Dismayed by the relative failure of Red Wedge, The Style Council find solace soundtracking the bleak state of the nation while pushing the possibilities of pop. Paul Weller discusses one of his more overlooked albums with Lois Wilson
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25 Years On: Blade’s The Lion Goes From Strength To Strength Revisited
Half a lifetime ago, an Armenian exiled to London set the template for today's DIY musicians and raised a standard that British rap has rarely reached since. Angus Batey had a ring-side seat while Blade fought to make himself heard: he looks back on a landmark in the history of independent music
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Soliloquy For Lilith: Nurse With Wound & The Vastness Of Possibility
Created 30 years ago through financial precarity, a new family and phantasmagorical feedback, Soliloquy For Lilith is too often labeled as simply ‘dark ambient’. But Nurse With Wound’s album of hallucinogenic, avant garde and intrepid spirit helped spawn a lineage that includes Aphex Twin, Sunn O))) and Klara Lewis
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A Thousand Leaves: How Sonic Youth Chose The Wilderness
The alternative rock major label gold rush of the mid-90s didn't last long but it burned most of those involved, in one way or another. Stevie Chick examines how the New York mavericks managed to "quietly decouple" themselves from the mainstream and prepare for their final late period genius phase as he looks at A Thousand Leaves, which was released 20 years ago
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Suede’s Debut Mapped The Wayward Sex & Glorious Failures Of Britishness
25 years on from Suede’s eponymously titled debut, Jeremy Allen rediscovers a record that shares a lineage with glam rock, music hall and Victorian burlesque and is not afraid to explore the underbelly of British sexuality. Photos courtesy of Suede/Pat Pope, John Cheeves, Phillip Williams
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How Air’s Moon Safari Made The World Take French Pop Seriously
Change was in the air in 1998 when a duo from Versailles released an album that did better internationally than it did in France. Jeremy Allen wonders if Moon Safari by Air was the point where Anglo Saxons stopped ignoring the surreptitious delights of French pop
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Straight Hedge! Noel Gardner Reviews Punk & HC For February
Noel Gardner, bringing you news of a band called THATCHER'S SNATCH, sprints back into the pit with all that is good, bad and ugly, or named THATCHER'S SNATCH, in international punk rock, hc, oi, D-beat and crust. And, did we mention THATCHER'S SNATCH?
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Does My Black Sun Look Big In This? Skullflower’s Patterns Of Predjudice
Late last week, veteran noise act Skullflower were dropped from the line up of Raw Power festival - yet for most of their lengthy career they have been considered apolitical. Here Dylan Miller considers the jigsaw of evidence against Matthew Bower and asks, 'What changed?'
