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James The Fang & Serious Sam Barrett “The Dime Horseshoe” (Independent, 2017)

January 12, 2017 Rudie Hayes 0
Having spent a few months every year touring the States playing with the likes of Al Scorch, Charlie Parr and The Pine Hill Haints, Yorkshireman Barrett here is on great form with James The Fang (of […]
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Mikko Joensuu “Amen-2” (Svart Records, 2016)

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Mikko Joensuu has set himself a daunting task – to release a trilogy of albums in the space of a year. Having been brought up in his native Finland with a strong religious background, the album […]
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Ruth Theodore “Cactacus” (Aveline Records, 2016)

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I know you shouldn’t judge a book by the cover, but this has been kicking about a while, the sleeve just didn’t want to make me play it.  I was wrong, it’s a sort of Alisha’s […]
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Neil Young “Peace Trail” (Reprise, 2016)

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Peace Trail is one of those Neil Young albums that it’d be easy to dismiss as a failure of Neil’s quality control process.  However, like those who dismiss Greendale, Fork in the Road or Chrome Dreams […]
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Chaim Tannenbaum “Chaim Tannenbaum” (Storysound Records, 2016)

January 10, 2017 Jonathan Aird 0
Ah, the eponymous debut album marking the emergence of a new talent. Only that’s not quite it this time, Chaim Tannenbaum has been active in music, on and off, for more than forty years. When he […]

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