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Chavez - Ride The Fader
Post-hardcore masterpiece by today’s go-to guitarist, Matt Sweeney…
(Deltasonic, 2002)
Roll up, roll up! Liverpudlian experimentalists record eccentric pop gem!
The Coral must love the studio. In the bygone age of their freak-beat heroes (Beefheart, Love, early Floyd) five albums in five years may have warranted a "what kept you?”, but with many of today’s bands extending the gap between records to three or four years, Hoylake’s finest are a speeding bullet train of sonic sustenance. Bowling out of Liverpool’s Zanzibar Club a few years ahead of their spooky, kooky, chart-bothering label mates The Zutons, The Coral arrived armed to the teeth with an album of surreal sea shanty rants (Skeleton Key, Spanish Main), vintage ‘60s pop (Dreaming Of You, Waiting For The Heartaches) and a potent dose of brooding psychedelia (Simon Diamond, Goodbye). This heady mix still propels the band to this day – as do the honeyed, rasping vocals of the hugely underrated James Skelly. Super-strength melodies, blitzed by off-beat arrangements, powered by youthful abandon and shadowed by a vertiginous wall of pop heritage, it’s modern British music at its most magical. Album number six is probably already in the can, but The Coral’s debut remains their most enchanting work to date.
Ross Bennett
Posted by Danny_Eccleston at 6:00 AM GMT 07/06/2008
The Zutons – Who Killed The Zutons? (Deltasonic, 2004)
The Doors – Strange Days (Elektra, 1967)
Michael Head And The Strands – The Magical World Of The Strands (Megaphone, 1997)
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The gruff one emerges from the shouty art ditch with a varied, heartfelt album that’s among his best
6:00 AM GMT 25/07/2008
Naked under a giant turtle shell, Cope gets to grips with psychedelic roots of oak.
6:00 AM GMT 24/07/2008
2006 reissue of songs from Jim Szalapski’s now-legendary document of ’70s ‘progressive country’.
6:00 AM GMT 23/07/2008
The forgotten soul of the Beatles vanity label.
6:00 AM GMT 22/07/2008
Super-charming cottage-psych from Sheffield. Tells Eminem “it’s OK to be gay”
6:00 AM GMT 21/07/2008
Like a French Futurama festival. On CD.
6:00 AM GMT 20/07/2008
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