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September 7, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Bill Callahan: Gold Record

Bill Callahan Gold Record Drag City For the best part of 20 years Bill Callahan was barely there – hiding behind the drift of a name. Smog. Sometimes it was in brackets. (Smog). And then, seemingly out of nowhere, and with enough of a reputation as a brilliant, idiosyncratic songwriter, he shook off that fug […]
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January 20, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 184

Purple Mountains, Purple Mountains (2019) It feels a little odd to have this on vinyl – but it was a must. At one point this was very nearly my album of the year; certainly one of my most played in 2019. But then what happened happened. And that meant that I stopped playing it – […]
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July 31, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

Purple Mountains: Purple Mountains

Purple Mountains Purple Mountains Drag City Purple Mountains is the self-titled debut that marks David Berman’s return to music after a decade away in the middle-aged wilderness of finding himself amid such bourgeoise crises as the death of a romantic partnership and wrestling with the fact that his right-wing, anti-humanist, lobbyist-cunt father is a voice for […]
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November 3, 2014 by Simon Sweetman

Andy Kaufman: Andy And His Grandmother

Andy Kaufman Andy And His Grandmother 1-2-3-4-GO!/Drag City/Process Media Obviously it’s fitting that Andy Kaufman’s debut comedy album (posthumous, or is it? – wink wink) is unlike most other comedy albums and is arguably an anti-comedy album since, of course, he was unlike most other comedians and more often/more likely an anti-comedian. This 48 minute […]
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