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XTC – Skylarking

January 1, 2025

Virgin 1986 / Ape House 2024 Troubles on cloud nine: British pop-art proponents seek storms in Transatlantic paradise. It’s all fun and games until somebody gets offended – or have their album overshadowed by a song which wasn’t there in … Continue reading →

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WILLIAM SHATNER – Where Will The Animals Sleep

June 6, 2024

Cleopatra 2024 Subtitled “Songs For Kids And Other Living Things” and beaming the grizzled explorer down to earth, the offering finds him embrace humanity and take the world in a love embrace. There have been a few William Shatner records … Continue reading →

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XTC – The Big Express

January 14, 2024

Virgin 1984 / Ape House 2023 Dressed in the cleanest dirty shirts, Wiltshire wardens of traditional wisdoms repair their engine to roll on down memory rails. There are records that, in time, acquire a film of patina – and there … Continue reading →

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EVERPRESENT – Seduce Me

November 22, 2023

Everpresent 2023 Conjuring up their erstwhile magic, two forward-thinkers cast a loving glance behind their collective shoulder. Two decades ago, before this project began to deal in experimental , its mastermind and frontman Matthew Cahoon, who excelled in accompanying clever … Continue reading →

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MADLEN KEYS – Event Horizon

November 1, 2023

Madlen Keys 2023 Rising from the mist above the Seine, Parisian prog-pop ensemble paint their impressionistic full-length debut in alluring pastels. A panther’s silhouette emerging from fog is a perfect image to grace the cover of this album, a fantastic … Continue reading →

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