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September 22, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

Five Songs For Friday: 19 – Album-Length ‘Songs’

It’s been a while – and since the big news for a lot of people this week was the announcement that Sleep will be playing NZ shows next year (for the first time ever) I thought, in honour of the album Dopesmoker we could look at four single-track albums; album-length songs. So here goes…
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February 9, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

Five Songs For Friday: # 7 – Check Your Neck/s

In honour of tomorrow being the day a new album by The Necks gets released this installment of Five Songs For Friday celebrates the music of one of my all-time favourite groups. This year the Aussie trio celebrates 30 years in the game. Thirty years of taking jazz – and specifically the jazz-trio-format – as a […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged 7, Aether, Ambient, Australia, Australian, Chris Abrahams, Daylights, Drive By, Five Songs For Friday, Five Songs For Friday # 7, Five Songs For Friday: # 7 – Check Your Neck/s, Instrumental, Jazz, Lloyd Swanton, Mindset, Minimalism, Mosquito, Mosquito/See Through, Open, Piano Bass Drums, Piano Drums Bass, Rum Jungle, See Through, Sex, The Boys, The Boys I, The Necks, Tony Buck, Trio, Vertigo ·

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January 19, 2012 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 1660

The Necks, Mindset (2011) I first heard The Necks when attending a concert in 2002. It was gob-smackingly good. I sat in the front row, mesmerised. I’d heard about them – done some research since I was reviewing the show. This Aussie trio mostly stuck to the rule of creating one long track – roughly […]
Posted in The Vinyl Countdown · Tagged Athenaeum, Australian, Chris Abrahams, Daylights, Drive By, Homebush, Jazz, Lloyd Swanton, LP, Mindset, Mosquitto, Quay, Raab, Rum Jungle, See Through, The Necks, Tony Buck, Vinyl ·

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