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[review originally written for Heavy Soil]Ben Folds has lost his earNot a single song on Way To Normal, released yesterday (in the UK; today in the states) is truly memorable. Not a single chorus could I convincingly sing back to you, right now.Opener 'Hiroshima (B B B Benny Hit His Head)' establishes a pattern: it's well-produced, along interesting lines: studio-recorded parts are combined wit...
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Ally Craig is by far the best unsigned artist I can think of.When I first saw him playing live, my reaction was exclamation-mark-punctuated silence"---!"He is very, very good. The kind of very, very good that is normally associated with slightly tiresome, anally-retentive, practise-noon-and-night musicians who actually turn out to play extremely boring music. Ally Craig does not do this. His su...
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A vague theme of uncompromising sonic aesthetic has run through my listening this past week, even though the five songs I've chosen to write about on my blog are, on the face of it, rather diverse: Nirvana's You Know You're Right - recorded in the band's final sessionDeerhoof's crazy, time-sig-shifting, bipolar lullaby-meets-nightmare Milk ManDresden Dolls' breakneck, triangulating Girl Anachro...
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