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13.10.2021
I've never spent any significant amount of time in the UK. Only once, a six-hour layover in 2003. Meandering around Heathrow like a lost 18-year-old does. To take in proper British scenery, I've had to rely on what BBC shows we get in Canada, other people's testaments or pictures. Typically, confirmation from my parents while watching a British show on TVO. "It looks just like that!" So green, so quaint and friendly. But to get a feeling of what it is l...
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12.10.2021
When we got the title for Julia Shapiro’s new album, Zorked, all we could imagine is a comic bubble popping up as Adam West’s Batman gave a right hook to the Joker. Sure, the album title is insensible, but the music is anything but. Zorked, or ‘thunder fucked’ as the case may be, starts off embracing its namesake. The track’s dropped down to 16-speed, submerging you as if robbed of breath under a distortion so vast, you’ve got to hang a leg of...
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11.10.2021
Toss on Black Marble’s Fast Idol and you’ll be whisked away to a bygone era of when people used to dance themselves clean and beyond. This far-reaching LP, at times nostalgic, reaches back beyond the dance electro days of the ‘00s and tugs at the synth strings of the New York ‘80s club scene. Black Marble, a.k.a. Chris Stewart explains the album’s sound in his own words as: sort of a return to barbarism, reclamation by nature over the state and the...
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As we begin our gradual emergence from enforced hibernation, in Ireland at least, it’s encouraging and gratifying to do so with a record of diverse, and excitin...
Yip Man is the nom de plume for Al Nero. Scotland-born but now living in China, his music has the greatest hallmark of the music of the Far East. That is, he igno...
Time is a funny thing. Too far in one direction, a thing is lost to it, obscured by what came before it. Too much too soon, a thing gets lost in it, but where’s the sweet spot?...
This is being written on the last day of May, practically two months before it will be published, so who knows what may happen between now and then regards the Flying Vinyl ...
Whenyoung have The Cranberries amongst their influences, so that's already got me wary. 'Never Let Go' brings Runrig to mind. As well as Eurovision. Lighters-in-the-air stad...
