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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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. […]