Visual Coercion

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Errors – 1999, How I’ve Missed You

The new record from Glasgow’s Errors has been bending my ear of late.  Entitled Have a Little Faith in Magic, it’s reminiscent of the promise of Antarctica‘s 81:03, released in 1999, this is the way music was supposed to have gone.  Welcome back to days of future past.

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Welcome to the new world

The British Expeditionary Force release their new record March 26, 2012, long years after they changed my world at first listen.  That’s news that makes for a good day, isn’t it?

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Bottomless Pit

This week I had a Deerhunter moment.  Tweaking from overstimulation on all fronts, unable to find pleasure in anything, turning away from myself and my tasks in ever tinier right angle spirals of repeated procrastination, it was suggested to me that I give Chicago’s Bottomless Pit an innocent listen.  Jaded and beyond hope and seeing [...]

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Interpol’s Secrets… REVEALED.

It was about a year ago that a good friend of mine revealed to me that he had unwittingly quite possibly discovered the secrets to New York City Barons of Blasé Interpol’s incontrovertible- even despite their last couple albums- awesomeness. It was not Joy Division that the band took after most, as some mused when [...]

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