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Todd Snider “Eastside Bulldog” (Thirty Tigers, 2016)

November 7, 2016 Paul Kerr 0

Apparently, Todd Snider has a doppelgänger, an East Nashville musical hooligan who goes by the name of Elmo Buzz and who has three rules on playing music. 1. “Play the bones of some Fifties or Sixties-sounding […]

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Modern Studies “Swell To Great” (Song, By Toad Records, 2016)

November 4, 2016 David Cowling 0

The sea surges and froths throughout these songs. They have all of the delicate beauty of an early morning coastal mist, they drift and coalesce or coalesce then drift. Like tidal surges, the asthmatic wheeze of […]

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Paul Goodwin “The Northern Lights In The Neon Tube” (Independent, 2016)

November 4, 2016 Paul Kerr 0

Four years in the making but The Northern Lights In The Neon Tube is not the result of endless hours spent tinkering in the studio, budgets be blasted. Instead the gap is explained by Cambridge musician […]

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Virgin of the Birds “Secret Kids” (Song, By Toad Records, 2016)

November 3, 2016 David Cowling 0

Jon Rooney records are documents of how songs are captured at the moment of recording. I always suspect that the next time I hear the song it could be significantly different, and in this respect he’s […]

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Seth Faergolzia “High Diver” (Blang, 2016)

November 3, 2016 Scott Baxter 0

When I received this, I was intrigued. A bunch of songs taken from a larger bunch of songs, the results of a period where Our Seth was writing a song a day for a hundred days. […]

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