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 Coming after last year's name-making 'Skuffed Up My Huffy', 'Tut Tut Now Shake Ya Butt' slipped by almost unnoticed this year. When it came to the date it was due, nothing much happened, but the anticlimactic release by no means reflected the contents of this awesome little nugget. |
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 This is a really hypnotic record. That's really the only way I can describe it. Although Alberta, Canada's Women may have a lot of clearly defined references, in an age of music which is so keen at looking back in order to look forward, they have still managed to carve out a little individuality in a genre that has some big names. |
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 Following last year's well praised, pseudo-concept album, 'Hissing Fauna, Are You The Destroyer?' should've been tricky for Kevin Barnes and his gang of colourful bandmates. The record had two strong personas (Kevin and his black, shemale alter-ego, Georgie Fruit) and countless ideas. |
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 The Week That Was is the most recent project of Peter Brewis, who is probably most well known as one half of the songwriting duo in Field Music. After the hiatus of Field Music was announced in the middle '07, both The Week That Was and David Brewis’ solo act School of Language were soon revealed, with debut albums from both planned to land in 2008. |
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 It’s funny how when people (critics and snobs mostly) miss the initial wave of something and then in their panic either pass it off as an entirely new entity or make it out that they always knew. With this new Fucked Up record, critics have been trying to do both. This has been going for as long as popular culture has existed, it is a perfect example of how all mainstream journalists have pretty much always been out of touch with culture and they exist on convincing themselves that they do. Generally, the only journalists that actually do exist in the real world don’t have a big enough platform to do so. Probably the most recent and most successful example of this is John Peel whom perhaps if he was still with us leading his disciples to better music and away from god-awful cash-ins could have prevented the most recent fads such as “nu-rave” and telling us to listen to bands like Fucked Up without trying to attach some hideous scene to it - I’ve seen a review, I think it was from the obviously well in-touch with the leading artistic creative forces of the world today, NME say that FU were ‘The Beating Heart of the Underground’ as if they could save some face and give the idea that they’re still in touch with any form of reality. |
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 Like I always expected they would, Men of Unitus have come to fuck you up. Powerful, dominating, chaotic but somehow still in control and as wrong as the 'cruciphallax' that graces the CD, 'Gland of Hope and Glory' represents the self-recorded fruits of labour from Hertfordshire's finest, Men of Unitus. |
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Surely, surely, surely, 2008 belongs to Fleet Foxes. They have simply taken the year in a love affair of music lovers and their own romantic music on both sides of the Atlantic and, subsequently, have released two surely potential top three (at least!) records of the year and as shown here, proven themselves as an incredible live act. Only Bon Iver has put in any kind of a challenge to this throne (but unfortunately I missed his tour, so for now, this will have to do).
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