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St Vincent – just a damn fine Actor

This week I have been mostly listening to the new St Vincent album, Actor. I originally tripped up over her first album Marry Me on emusic, having seen it reviewed on Pitchfork. Marry me was stuffed full of lengthy, wordy songs with her clear and crisp vocals matched with equally clear and crisp guitar [...]

If you want your pudding…

…you’ll have to eat your meat.
Or so it seems on emusic, where after many attempts at finding a solution to the problem of licensing the excellent DJ Kicks series of mix albums they have added a new download restriction – albums where you either download the whole thing or nothing. Reaction in the reviews on [...]

Different Strokes

BBC News | MUSIC | Strokes hit critics’ top spots
Hmm… I only really half care about such things, but I have to say that the stuff that has really impressed me has been from They Might Be Giants, Bis, Daft Punk, The Avalanches and Fantastic Plastic Machine.
Given that out of those, only two were albums [...]