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Russell's Reviews: Pocketbooks - Promises, Promises
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Music reviews and other related stuff, by me, Russ. Wednesday, 20 July 2011. Pocketbooks - Promises, Promises. Pocketbooks are back with a new single Promises, Promises. Ahead of their second album Carousel. Due in September. If you like sumptuous, pristine pop, then this is just the thing for you. It follows in a similar vein to the material on debut album Flight Paths. Is a free download available here. The album, Carousel. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). View my complete profile. Too Much Apple Pie.
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Russell's Reviews: January 2012
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Music reviews and other related stuff, by me, Russ. Monday, 2 January 2012. Buy Nothing Year update 1. With the new project two days in and having survived the first day of shopping today, I thought it might be interesting to keep a log of what I have been listening to with the new free time. This was followed up by Phosphorescent's Here's To Taking It Easy, a lush new addition purchased from Rise in Swindon at the tale end of 2011. Sunday, 1 January 2012. I normally can't be bothered with end of year li...
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Russell's Reviews: Buy Nothing Year update 1
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Music reviews and other related stuff, by me, Russ. Monday, 2 January 2012. Buy Nothing Year update 1. With the new project two days in and having survived the first day of shopping today, I thought it might be interesting to keep a log of what I have been listening to with the new free time. This was followed up by Phosphorescent's Here's To Taking It Easy, a lush new addition purchased from Rise in Swindon at the tale end of 2011. You made some good points there about ExamSheets. 2 March 2012 at 11:05.
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Russell's Reviews: Deportivo – Neighbourhood
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Music reviews and other related stuff, by me, Russ. Tuesday, 19 July 2011. Deportivo – Neighbourhood. Is the second single from West London band Deportivo. Despite the clunky clichéd lyrics and slightly plodding tune, Neighbourhood. Isn’t all bad, but only in a kind of Athlete excitement way. The DPPLGNGRS remix. Starts brilliantly with chiptune bleeping, thumping synth beat and zooming electronic car noises, which transform the song into something else entirely. The Arclite Productions remix.
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Russell's Reviews: Best of 2011
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Music reviews and other related stuff, by me, Russ. Sunday, 1 January 2012. I normally can't be bothered with end of year lists, but I've finally done one, which is mainly for my brother's benefit, but here for the world to see. Here's my Top 13 albums of 2011. This may be the only list to not include PJ Harvey, but that's only because I haven't heard it and have no real interest in doing so. 1 Half Man Half Biscuit - 90 Bisodol (Crimond). 3 Frankie and The Heartstrings - Hunger. 4 Jonny - Jonny.
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Russell's Reviews: June 2012
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Music reviews and other related stuff, by me, Russ. Sunday, 3 June 2012. Well, here's the reason for the lack of updates. I've been spending my time on my debut novel and it has now been published. I wrote the first draft for NaNoWriMo 2008 and it was then shelved for a couple of years, before further work was done to bring it to its finished state. The back cover blurb reads thus:. 8220;Did you know desire's a terrible thing. It makes the world go blind. But if desire, desire's a terrible thing.
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Russell's Reviews: Airship – Kids
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Music reviews and other related stuff, by me, Russ. Tuesday, 19 July 2011. Airship – Kids. The second single from Airship sounds like Richard Hawley fronting an unashamedly over the top pop band. It’s a song that goes over the barricades and into the charts many times over, with a surging chorus and irresistible verses that can’t wait to be reacquainted with that chorus again. Here’s a song that the word effervescent was invented to describe. Kids is out now on Play It Again Sam. View my complete profile.
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Russell's Reviews: A novel idea
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Music reviews and other related stuff, by me, Russ. Tuesday, 19 July 2011. Normal service will hopefully be resumed soon. Either that or I'll be sidetracked on the fanzine I've been collating work for. One way or the other I hope you will stick with me and keep reading the blog. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Music writer and gig promoter from Oxford, UK. Contact: russellsmusicreviews at gmail dot com to have your stuff reviewed or just to say hello. View my complete profile. Airship – Kids.
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Russell's Reviews: Secret Rivals – Make Do And Mend
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Music reviews and other related stuff, by me, Russ. Sunday, 6 November 2011. Secret Rivals – Make Do And Mend. The music used to have the roughness of The Wedding Present, but now slots effortlessly among the new indie wave of The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart and their ilk, while still harking back to the likes of Bis. Make Do And Mend is out now on Kittiwake Records. Secret Rivals website is here. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Music writer and gig promoter from Oxford, UK. View my complete profile.
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Russell's Reviews: December 2011
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Music reviews and other related stuff, by me, Russ. Saturday, 31 December 2011. I have decided to set myself a challenge for 2012, which is called Buy Nothing Year. Now obviously the thought of buying nothing at all is crazy, but the idea is to not buy any new (to me, as opposed to new releases) CDs, books or DVDs in the year. The other reason for doing this is the lack of space in the house to put more and more stuff. This has been partly inspired by the following:. The National Pop Strike.