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February 4, 2018

Birthday Albums: Bonus Bonus Bonus – Room 29

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The stretchiment of the Birthday Albums project has reached its limit. What started as a pure vision, the mission to review all the CDs that I was given for my birthday, has warped and twisted and now sits shrieking like … Continue reading →

Pete
January 25, 2018

Birthday Albums: The Bonusing Continues – Beat Routes

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Pearl’s Cab Ride – Beat Routes While the title of Beat Routes is enough to raise a wry smile, I have to confess to being mostly underwhelmed by everything else about this album. It opens with The Only One, which … Continue reading →

Pete
January 6, 2018

Birthday Albums Bonus – What Went Down

Posted in Gravitas | Tagged birthday albums, foals
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This project has gradually tumbled out of its structure like a thin paper bag full of vomit. The rules have been flexed and then broken, a once-beautiful thing crazed and weatherbeaten into something that we barely recognise any more, something … Continue reading →

Pete
December 18, 2017

Shed Seven

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If you like, you can consider this as a sort of bonus episode of the birthday albums project. Or, if you’d rather not, then don’t. Last week I was listening mostly to the new Shed Seven album, Instant Pleasures. Now … Continue reading →

Pete
December 9, 2017

Birthday Albums #7 – Kintsugi

Posted in Gravitas | Tagged birthday albums, death cab for cutie
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Death Cab For Cutie – Kintsugi Of my birthday albums, I’ve saved this one for last, because honestly I don’t think that Death Cab For Cutie can possibly disappoint. While the breadth of my Death Cab For Cutie listening experience … Continue reading →

Pete
November 10, 2017

Birthday Albums #6 – Painted Ruins

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Grizzly Bear – Painted Ruins Hang on, didn’t you say last week that it would be “Shields”? Yeah, funny story… Oh there’s always a funny story with you, you imbecile. Now now, just because you have no real identity and … Continue reading →

Pete
October 15, 2017

Birthday Albums #5 – The Fault In Our Stars

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Various Artists – The Fault In Our Stars (Soundtrack) How did it get on my wishlist? I put this on my wishlist after watching The Fault In Our Stars film and being fairly impressed by the soundtrack and how well … Continue reading →

Pete
October 1, 2017

Birthday Albums #4 – Attack of the Mutant 50ft Kebab

Posted in Gravitas | Tagged Attack of the mutant 50ft kebab, birthday albums
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Space – Attack of the Mutant 50ft Kebab How did it get on my wishlist? Every now and then, I wonder about the bands I listened to in my teens, and what they’re doing now. Remember Spiders by Space, that … Continue reading →

Pete

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