Genres
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The Crassical Collection: Stations of the Crass – Crass (Southern)
There were two main reasons why reactions by the music press were largely irrelevant to Crass. Firstly, they had little…
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The Crassical Collection: The Feeding of the 5000 – Crass
In terms of punk rock’s political legacy, it’s difficult to overstate the primacy of Crass. Whereas the class of ’76…
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Loveland – Order To Love (album, Groovie Records)
The newly minted band are led by the eponymous Lana, late of the Fuzztones, whose polymath talents are revealed to…
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Sharks – The Future Is Unwritten
‘Fallen On Deaf Ears’ still electrifies to this day, fully realising all that promise it exuded from the get-go. Similarly,…
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The Eyelids/ Po-Lice, Clipper Bar, Camborne, 22/04/2011
An exercise in exothermic reactions on an unseasonably warm Good Friday. Openers, Po-Lice from Taunton, have a kind of ramshackle…
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Vivian Girls – Share The Joy (album, Polyvinyl)
Bookended by two of their most expansive tracks, the third album from the Brooklyn trio sees them stretching the boundaries…
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The Crassical Collection: Christ The Album – Crass
‘Your life’s reduced to nothing but an empty media game / Big Brother ain’t watching you, mate, you’re fucking watching…
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The Skuzzies – The Skuzzies (album, Easy Action)
The long-awaited debut album from Astoria/Babyshambles Riot veterans the Skuzzies is a largely fat-free feast, which could, perhaps fittingly, have…
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Tupac: A ‘Thug’ Afterlife
Tupac: Not more than hardly ... There's a whole mess of us stuck here; Elvis Presley, Jim Morrisson, Shergar, some…
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The Cramps at Napa State
‘The guy filming couldn't point his camera at the inmates because he couldn't show them escaping.’ Lux Interior
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Anarchive – 001 The Mob
Firstly, if you've never heard The Mob, this album is the wrong place to start. Score a copy of the…
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PJ Harvey – ‘Let England Shake’ (Island)
Songs of conflict, songs of harm, songs bereft of coquettish charm... otherworldly songs of the impending death that ultimately befalls…
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