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cold – A Perfect Engine
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Settle down and breathe the air off the roof. The what’s loud cloud. Get over it loser. The Drift Record Shop. Baby it’s cold inside. It’s been cold in our house for a few days now. More than a week in fact. Our boiler broke down the weekend before last. We live in a cob house. For millions of people in the UK, this cold is a reality right now, a reality which poses a direct threat. One in six families live in fuel poverty. From 25 a week to just 8.50 during the recent spending review. Good for h...Our b...
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2013 – A Perfect Engine
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Settle down and breathe the air off the roof. The what’s loud cloud. Get over it loser. The Drift Record Shop. My Records of 2013. Here’s the list of my albums of the year for 2013. I’ve had no problems whatsoever compiling this list as it features the only 11 new records I actually bought over the last 12 months. Deafheaven – ‘Sunbather’. Deerhunter – ‘Monomania’. More or less a standard new Deerhunter record, which shouldn’t even be a thing. Regulation Deerhunter is okay for me and listening back I...
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2010 – A Perfect Engine
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Settle down and breathe the air off the roof. The what’s loud cloud. Get over it loser. The Drift Record Shop. What 2010 sounded like – my records of the year. The Antlers – ‘Hospice’. The Mountain Goats – ‘The Sunset Tree’. I finally got around to John Darnielle and The Mountain Goats, and ‘The Sunset Tree’ is pretty much everything I want from an album. Sharp and funny, with tunes both affecting and catchy, delivered in a deliciously nasal west coast voice. The sound of the Summer&#...In which the moga...
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canada – A Perfect Engine
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Settle down and breathe the air off the roof. The what’s loud cloud. Get over it loser. The Drift Record Shop. Exile on Main Street. Yesterday we spent a few deeply and surprisingly pleasurable hours wandering Main Street in Vancouver. So, sure, I was due to start feeling well, but I’d be lying if I didn’t admit that something about the process of drifting up and down that street didn’t have a lot to do with it. 8216; selling… Well I assume they’re selling something. Jetpac is a clever idea, which is cut...
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bonnie prince billy – A Perfect Engine
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Settle down and breathe the air off the roof. The what’s loud cloud. Get over it loser. The Drift Record Shop. Music Diary 2012 – Sunday. Today’s head music: Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – ‘Nobody’s Baby Now’. Because my friend Nick told me he’s learning it on the ukelele so he can perform at a wedding, and ‘Private Life’ by Grace Jones. Because… i’ve no idea. As I drove I reacquainted myself with Jacob’s Mouse. First with their four track debut ‘No Fish Shop Parking’. Same time next year? May 13, 2012.
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coalition – A Perfect Engine
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Settle down and breathe the air off the roof. The what’s loud cloud. Get over it loser. The Drift Record Shop. Election fever turns terminal. What to make of it. But the hysterical monstering he suffered at the hands of the British press has been biased, pernicious, dishonest and ultimately corrosive for politics and public life. No more, it seems, are we allowed a leader who is ill-tempered, unpolished, difficult, ugly. This country feels safer, more prosperous, more vibrant and more equal than when the...
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conservative – A Perfect Engine
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Settle down and breathe the air off the roof. The what’s loud cloud. Get over it loser. The Drift Record Shop. Election fever turns terminal. What to make of it. But the hysterical monstering he suffered at the hands of the British press has been biased, pernicious, dishonest and ultimately corrosive for politics and public life. No more, it seems, are we allowed a leader who is ill-tempered, unpolished, difficult, ugly. This country feels safer, more prosperous, more vibrant and more equal than when the...
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audiobooks – A Perfect Engine
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Settle down and breathe the air off the roof. The what’s loud cloud. Get over it loser. The Drift Record Shop. Music Diary 2012 – Thursday. No music at all until 6.30pm. Then I listened to the Moonface. Album ‘Organ Music Not Vibraphone Like I’d Hoped’. And that’s it. No more music for me today. I partly replaced listening to Radio 4 in the car with catching up on albums, and my dog walks were never without headphones. May 10, 2012. Blog at WordPress.com. Blog at WordPress.com. Join 46 other followers.
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#musicdiaryproject – A Perfect Engine
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Settle down and breathe the air off the roof. The what’s loud cloud. Get over it loser. The Drift Record Shop. Musicdiaryproject – Friday. Jo was on Marge duty this morning, so just Head Music for me until lunchtime. I had ‘Send in the Clowns’ for a few minutes. No idea why, but it brought a brief gust of Friday ennui. Yuck – ‘Holing Out’. I try to join the Friday Mix. I thought ‘Sunrise’ would be a good opener and tried to boost it to the top, but Eric and Ernie kept being bumped even higher...As the pl...
