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December 13, 2018 by Simon Sweetman

RNZ Reviews: December 2018

Once a month or so I have a chat on RNZ on their Afternoons show with Jesse Mulligan. These things start – randomly and stop in much the same way. I hope to keep doing this. For a while at least. I think I started in December of 2015, so now nearly three years into  it. Last year I […]

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October 19, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

CD Review of Kids of 88’s Sugar Pills: From The Archives

Kids of 88, Sugarpills Placebo: something of no intrinsic remedial value that is used to appease or reassure another. In one common placebo procedure, a patient is given an inert pill, told that it may improve his/her condition, but not told that it is in fact inert. Such an intervention may cause the patient to […]

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October 7, 2014 by Simon Sweetman

Digests: The Best of 2014’s Album Reviews – August

Another 50 great albums – really, really good albums – reviewed in August. Doing my best to power through this stuff – so much stuff, and a lot of really good material. Duds too. They get reviewed of course, but the point of these digests is to highlight – and place altogether in one space […]

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January 28, 2013 by Simon Sweetman

Rodriguez: Searching For Sugar Man (Soundtrack)

Rodriguez Searching For Sugar Man – Soundtrack Sony Sometimes an artist is best served by that one great album and though there is an obvious reason to see this movie soundtrack as a Greatest Hits compilation/companion – taking as it does (arguably) the best from Cold Fact and Coming From Reality – I’d argue that […]

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November 6, 2012 by Simon Sweetman

John Frusciante: PBX Funicular Intaglio Zone

John Frusciante PBX Funicular Intaglio Zone  EMI Ever since 1994’s Niandra Lades And Usually Just A T-Shirt Frusciante has been releasing weird (and often oddly-titled) albums. He pushed the concept of the indulgent solo album from band veteran subverting whims in 2004-5 releasing some half-dozen albums/EPs. He was going to record an album a month […]

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November 3, 2012 by Simon Sweetman

Flying Lotus: Until The Quiet Comes

Flying Lotus Until The Quiet Comes Warp Where the last Flying Lotus album was jam-packed with ideas, almost off-putting (at least at first) the new one floats and wafts and eases itself into place. No aural bombardment, it’s so gentle and easy and light that it could almost give off the idea – on first […]