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Dutch Uncles

Cadenza

Memphis Industries

You could fill umpty pages with the provenance of Dutch Uncles song titles, which isn’t necessarily a good thing given how many newsagents have told Chimp that their customers “don’t read” since we first ventured out, shortly after the release of first DU LP, “Face In”.

Manic Street Preachers

Postcards From A Young Man

Columbia

The Manics were always capable of delivering epics and as opening single“It’s Not War, It’s Just The End Of Love”, they’ve rediscovered their songwriting goldmine.

Salem

King Night

IamSound/Sony

In terms of boundary pushing, mind warping electronica it doesn’t get any further away from mainstream than this. This bunch of beat loving whizz kids from Michigan manage to create a vast array of sounds and tunes with riffs and samples overlapping, weaving in and out, so fiercely it’s sometimes hard to know what’s going on.

Frisvold & Lindbaek

Diskoism

Beat Service

Tromso in Norway is apparently quite the HQ for things techno and dance, with Beat Service having started off as a radio station in the nineties, and now branching out into record label territory.

Joe Galen

For Triangles

Creaked

Since “United Kingdoms”, Robert Wyatt’s collaboration with Ultramarine kick started the whole “Folktronica” scene all that time ago, the oeuvre has consistently failed to live up to it’s promise, offerings ranging from the cultural condescension of Tuung to the sheer suicidal blandness of Four Tet.

Devo

Something For Everybody

Warner Brothers

It was 1976 and Britain was in the grip of New Wave fever when, hot from the USA, Devo released first single “Mongoloid”. The band’s manifesto – you had to have a manifesto to be a band in those days – was based around the imagery and teachings of good ole Bob Dodds and the Church of the Sub Genius.

Sky Larkin

Kaleide

Wichita

Leeds trio Sky Larkin manage to combine some fresh sounding guitar led melodies on this debut release for the Wichita label.

Everything Everything

Man Alive

Geffen

Happy to give merely the idea of this band an unreserved thumbs-up, let’s get stuck into the music without further ado.

All You Can Eat Sinatra

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Dutch Uncles

Cadenza

Memphis Industries

Manic Street Preachers

Postcards From A Young Man

Columbia

Salem

King Night

IamSound/Sony

Frisvold & Lindbaek

Diskoism

Beat Service

Joe Galen

For Triangles

Creaked

Devo

Something For Everybody

Warner Brothers

Sky Larkin

Kaleide

Wichita

Everything Everything

Man Alive

Geffen

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