8.8
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Jimmy Climbs and Lizzie Weber Reviewed

Jimmy Climbs – Fake It Till U Make It What do you have to look forward to? If you’re like most people, you’re just dying for the weekend, a spot in front of the television and a cold bottle of beer. And, while that sounds brilliant, you’ll probably not be able…
8.3
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Nicky B Hannas and Harlan Hopkins Reviewed

Nicky B Hannas – Shoot From The Hip (Gunslingin’) Does anyone have the energy anymore, or the unchecked ambition, to take over for Damon Albarn or pop man-machines like himself? Probably not, and it’s likely that there are very few kids who could even muster…
7.5
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R7EVE and Beau Monde Reviewed

R7EVE – L’amour, le sable, la mort, un nua There are reasons to believe that the language in which a poem or song is written is quite irrelevant if the work is any good. The myth, and you can easily test it out for yourself, is that if the meaning is buried…
7.8
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The Agency… and Merwulf Reviewed

The Agency… – We Fell to the Floor Listen, there’s a perfectly good reason, besides catching up on your Alt77 playlists, to spend your days walking around with headphones in your ears and to wave off anyone who might want to draw your attention towards…
8.3
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Jeff Symonds and The Lousy Hitchhikers Reviewed

Jeff Symonds – Back of the Stage I was recently having a conversation with an incredible musician who, if all things in the world were fair and made sense, should be much more famous than he is. He has spent a big old chunk of his life playing smoke-filled clubs…
7.8
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Jaded Memory and Dejima Reviewed

Jaded Memory – Speck in the Sea What was really the crime that the Yacht Rock crew committed? Why are those people mocked with such consistency that you’d think they were accomplices to the Manson Family murders who got away with it by writing post-hippie…
8.5
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Simitree and Devlin And The Harm Reviewed

Simitree – Under Used Maybe it’s completely true that, first, all you need to be convinced that you need to make a change is too much of something. Perhaps all that was ever really needed was the incentive to want to desperately yell out: “Stop!” Before…
8.3
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Tommy Douglas Keenan and Ghosts on the Wall Reviewed

Tommy Douglas Keenan – Rockinghorse What does every single rockstar or film actor do in their spare evenings? Why, of course, they’re working on a script. What’s it about, you ask? Why, inevitably, it is about themselves, and if any studio is interested, it can…
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quilium - “can of whoopbass” Review

In a dark room somewhere, someone is going blind trying to rewrite James Joyce’s “Finnegan’s Wake” for a modern audience. Further downtown, a retired pensioner has decided to rebuild the Tower of Babel using matchsticks. And, of course, further up town, the most…