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The Decemberists – The Hazards of Love

By |January 23rd, 2009|Categories: Album Reviews|Tags: , , , , , |

EMI/Rough Trade, 2009 [7/10] Where once The Decemberists were a modest modern rock band, albeit outsiders with literate leanings that rarely leaned toward rock's excesses, they have gradually extended their artistic aspirations into the musical

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Mental As Anything – Essential As Anything / Tents Up

By |July 24th, 2009|Categories: Album Reviews|Tags: , , , , , , |

Both mental and essential, Sydney's pop legends Mental as Anything return with a career-encompassing collection and a brand new studio album.

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Stephen Malkmus – London – 9 December 2009

By |March 13th, 2010|Categories: Live Reviews|Tags: , , , , , |

Stephen Malkmus has been ‘jicking’ for as long now as he was leading the charge in Pavement, releasing as many albums, yet never reaching the same heights. His solo career seemed to be in constant war of expectation over delivery. It's not Pavement. It's not a bunch of twenty-year-olds fighting their generation. But the louche stage prescence, that hazy cynical drawl, the greying hair framing the eyes in a semi-slacker curl, little has changed over the years.

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