It is rather frightening to think that it’s now over thirty years since Psychocandy by The Jesus and Mary Chain graced the airwaves. Well, frightening to people of a certain age such as this reviewer.
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Month: March 2016
Godzilla Black: Press The Flesh (2016).
“Formed by two frustrated drummers” tells you about sixty percent of what you need to know. The rest is descended (through similarly-influenced ’80s indie rock, then the stuff that was left after grunge imploded) from the heavier ’60s psychedelic rock, rather than prog.
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The fall of The Fall
This review has been sitting in the ‘to post’ box for a while, for reasons that will become evident.
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Records that have not stood the test of time: Models: Out Of Mind, Out Of Sight (1985).
This album, which I played a few days ago for the first time in thirty years, is what the kids these days describe as a “hot mess”. A pile of good ideas mashed in with a pile of terrible ones; the result desperately pretends to work.
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