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October 20, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Yo La Tengo: Sleepless Night [EP]

Yo La Tengo Sleepless Night [EP] Matador This new EP by Yo La Tengo features covers that stretch back over the last decade or so. As always with this band there’s equal awe for the versions they offer and the mere song-selection. It’s cool, or reassuring, or reassuringly cool to know that that band you’ve […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Album Review, Cover, Covers, EP, Matador, Sleepless Night, Sleepless Night [EP], Yo La Tengo, Yo La Tengo: Sleepless Night [EP], You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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November 26, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

Lucy Dacus: 2019 [EP]

Lucy Dacus 2019 (ep) Matador As far as stopgap EPs go this is very good. It’s a bunch of single tracks collected up and gathered here under a clever-enough theme (holidays; a different song for each holiday, mix of covers and originals) but it ultimately exists to make sure people don’t forget about Dacus in […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged 2019, Album Review, boygenius, Bruce Springsteen, Covers, Edith Piaf, EP, Historian, Julien Baker, Lucy Dacus, Lucy Dacus: 2019 [EP], Matador, Originals, Phil Collins, Phoebe Bridgers, Wham!, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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November 8, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

Steve Gunn: Acoustic Unseen [EP]

Steve Gunn Acoustic Unseen (ep) Matador So you’ve always been a Steve Gunn fan? Or you just caught up with the latest album? Either way – here’s a treat of a brand new acoustic EP which offers links back to his earliest work via interpretations of seven of the songs from the Unseen In Between […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Acoustic Unseen, Acoustic Unseen (ep), Album Review, EP, Matador, Solo, Steve Gunn, Steve Gunn: Acoustic Unseen [EP], The Unseen In Between, Tour, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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November 5, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

Steve Gunn: The Unseen In Between

Steve Gunn The Unseen In Between Matador It’s hard to keep up with Steve Gunn – he’s been prolific and very good; so you return to the albums you love. And already there are plenty. Here I am just catching up with this year’s new release (which arrive back in January). One thing that’s been […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Acoustic, Album Review, Guitar, Matador, NZ Tour, Solo, Solo Acoustic, Steve Gunn, Steve Gunn: The Unseen In Between, The Unseen In Between, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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March 20, 2018 by Simon Sweetman

Yo La Tengo: There’s A Riot Going On

Yo La Tengo There’s A Riot Going On Matador Yo La Tengo’s umpteenth album shares its title with that famous Sly & The Family Stone record. And the similarities end there really. Well, the comment, I guess, is that this record is born of fraught times, just as that one was. But where Sly channeled […]
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March 30, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

HÆLOS: Full Circle

HÆLOS Full Circle Matador Get ready to be told, elsewhere that HÆLOS sound like the xx, when, if they even do, it’s the xx of the awful and dreary lightning-does-strike-once second-album, not that lush debut. Actually, HÆLOS – awful  font and stylised lettering and all – sounds like a throwback to 90s trip-hop – there […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Album Review, Arthur Delaney, Burial, Dom Goldsmith, Full Circle, HÆLOS, Lotti Bernardout, Matador, Moby, Moloko, Morcheeba, Play, Trip-Hop ·

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November 14, 2013 by Simon Sweetman

Kurt Vile: it’s a big world out there (and i am scared)

Kurt Vile it’s a big world out there (and i am scared) Matador Records He’s already released one of the best albums of the year; one of my favourites and now he adds some leftover bits and pieces from those sessions to make a compelling EP, it’s more than just filler. You take a song […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Album Review, Bonus Disc, Deluxe Edition, EP, it’s a big world out there (and i am scared), Kurt Vile, Matador, Smoke Ring For My Halo, Wakin On A Pretty Daze ·

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October 14, 2013 by Simon Sweetman

Lee Ranaldo and The Dust: Last Night On Earth

Lee Ranaldo and The Dust Last Night On Earth Matador Records The best thing about the Sonic Youth hiatus has been the chance for Lee Ranaldo to step out and have a platform. He is even, somewhat nobly I gather, finding work for SY drummer Steve Shelley. A wise choice of course because Shelley is […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Album Review, Last Night On Earth, Lee Ranaldo, Lee Ranaldo and The Dust, Matador, Sonic Youth, Steve Shelley ·

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April 7, 2013 by Simon Sweetman

Kurt Vile: Wakin On A Pretty Daze

Kurt Vile Wakin On A Pretty Daze Matador Kurt Vile’s fifth album is his best and, yes, that’s a big call since Smoke Ring For My Halo – the one that introduced him to a larger audience, that in turn improved on the also-excellent Childish Prodigy – might have seemed a hard act to follow. […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Album Review, Kurt Vile, Matador, Smoke Ring For My Halo, The Violators, Wakin On A Pretty Day, Wakin On A Pretty Daze ·

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