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Gogol Bordello: Super Taranta!

[12.Jul.07] :. Super Taranta! is at heart, a riotous, utterly bonkers, brilliant party album from one of the world's greatest dance bands.

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Plan B: Who Needs Actions When You Got Words

[12.Jun.07] :. As a social document of a country riddled by inner city despair, Who Needs Actions When You Got Words is a resounding success -- as an album you will listen to again, Plan B falls some way short.

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Patrick Wolf: The Magic Position

[2.May.07] :. A bold, romantic album touched by a rare imagination and an indefinable magic -- pop music at its most deliriously inventive and exciting.

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Grinderman: Grinderman

[10.Apr.07] :. Much more than a diversionary side project, Grinderman is a foul mouthed, frequently hilarious discharge of utterly essential midlife-crisis rock and roll.

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Plan B: Time 4 Plan B

[9.Apr.07] :. His vision of England was one of forgotten, decaying sink estates overrun with crack and smack, teenage violence, underage sex and broken families.

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Music   Babyshambles: B Sides

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Music   The Lemonheads: The Lemonheads

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Lambchop: Damaged

[30.Aug.06] :. Lambchop have long been one of America's greatest bands, and Damaged is their greatest achievement.

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Scott Walker: The Drift

[10.May.06] :. Walker has created a dense nightmare world on The Drift that -- in all its bloody, crawling glory -- is as boldly profound a comment on our times as has emerged so far this century.

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Arab Strap: The Last Romance

[21.Feb.06] :. Arab Strap's version of romance might well be scarred and battered, but it's a romance that's real and breathtakingly recognisable.

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The Good, the Bad & the Queen - The Good, the Bad & the Queen [$12.98]

[21.Nov.07] :. Damon Albarn's new music is touched by the colors of the old English music hall, wartime laments, and Britpop, as well as subtle shades of reggae, dub, and Afrobeat. It might be as grubby and...

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