Friday, 31 August 2012

The 2kDozen 500: #300 - Eugene McGuiness, "The Invitation To The Voyage"

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This album has given me all kinds of ideas about the DNA of Pop and the DNA of Britain and how the kinky fault-line running between them can...

The 2kDozen 500: #299 - JD and The Evil's Dynamite Band, "Explodes Across The Nation"

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Another Peel Archive treasure, this time from 2001. They are looking to evoke some experimental funk from forty or so years earlier. Part of...

The 2kDozen 400: #298 - Public Enemy, "How You Sell Soul to a Soulless People Who Sold Their Soul?"

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Inspired by recent nostalgia TV over the bank holiday weekend and Public Enemy's current Paralympic-inspired mini-Renaissance, I've ...
Thursday, 30 August 2012

The 2kDozen 500: #297 - Stu Bangas, "Diggaz With Attitude"

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Some "underground" hip hop. It could be right under the surface and known from Somalia to Sunderland as far as I know, so far is m...
Tuesday, 28 August 2012

The 2kDozen 500: #296 - James Yorkston, "I Was A Cat From A Book"

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So, still in an emotional folky mode with Fifer James, although there isn't the same Millenial fear of the end of days. It's on a mu...

The 2kDozen 500: #295 - Bill Fay, "Time of the Last Persecution"

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Black and white photo cover, big tramp beard and an obvious sense of, well, persecution. There aren't as many lyrics about Jesus and rec...

The 2kDozen 500: #294 - Bill Fay, "Life is People"

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This is a bit of a double header. An banner ad popped up for this album with a one word review along the lines of "astounding", an...