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The Birthday Party: Mutiny / The Bad Seed EP
(album review)
A refreshed review from 2004. I've always been of the opinion that
if an artist or band is going to make a final statement, then it
should be well-executed and tightly-delivered. This holds true for
The Birthday Party's final two EPs, which are collected
together onto this single CD by 4AD. [read
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The Birthday Party: Junkyard (album review)
A refreshed review from 2004. Few album titles accurately describe
the content as Junkyard so cleverly does, implying a tangled
mess of music, filled with all sorts of sonic detritus. The
Birthday Party - Nick Cave, Tracey
Pew, Mick Harvey, Rowland S Howard
and Phil Calvert - released this album on 4AD
in 1982. [read more]
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Depeche Mode: A Broken Frame (album review)
Post-Vince Clarke, pre-Alan Wilder,
A Broken Frame found Depeche Mode supposedly
rudderless without Vince's songwriting abilities. In spite of the
headwind created by losing their main songwriter, and sensing accusations
of being one-album wonders, Martin Gore quickly
dusted down a few songs he'd written as a child, wrote a few more
and produced a decisively coherent second album. [read
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The Normal: Warm Leatherette / TVOD (single
review)
A refreshed review from 2004. The Mute Records
story began with this seminal 7" recorded by founder Daniel
Miller under the alias The Normal. 'Warm
Leatherette' is JG Ballard's Crash distilled into an edgy
electro track, while 'TVOD' is pure Eraserhead-era David
Lynch. [read more]
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