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St Vincent, Strange Mercy (4AD) St Vincent is the nom de plume of 29-year-old multi- instrumentalist and singer-songwriter Annie Clark from Dallas, Texas. Recording music in her bedroom from the…
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Hollie Cook, Hollie Cook (Mr Bongo)Of late, reggae hasn’t had much success in reaching an audience outside the long-established centres of fandom. While the more abstract dub experiments from the…
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Danger Mouse and Daniele Luppi, Rome (EMI)There cannot be many people around with a musical mind as open as Danger Mouse, aka Brian Burton, the New York-born producer and erstwhile London resident…
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The Kills, Blood Pressures (Domino)The Kills – aka Floridian singer Alison Mosshart (freshly returned from her excursion with Jack White, Dead Weather) and British multi-instrumentalist Jamie Hince – have been…
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Marianne Faithfull,Horses And High Heels (Naive)The first thing that can be said with certainty about this, Marianne Faithfull’s 23d album, is that it won’t be easily overlooked in the shops…
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Brian Eno, Small Craft on a Milk Sea (Warp)In the unpredictable course of his career, Brian Eno as a producer guided Talking Heads, David Bowie, U2 and Coldplay out of…
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Wai, Ora (Jayrem Records)Maka McGregor was once the drummer of Maori reggae band Aotearoa who were instrumental in bringing a voice to New Zealand’s young Maori population. Such was the…
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Cosa Brava, Ragged Atlas (Intakt Records)Guiitarist Fred Frith first honed his instrumental skills with the archetypically 1970s English group Henry Cow, an ensemble with strong political views, an arch sense…
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Villagers, Becoming a Jackal (Domino)Twenty years after the innovative peak of the 1980s, the decade that saw bands ranging from U2 to Stump, from Microdisney to That Petrol Emotion, the…
