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Aerial – Back Within Reach
Scottish popsters Aerial burst onto the UK scene in 2000 playing a brand of pop that appealed to both indie kids and power pop fans. They released two four songs EPs on Fantastic Plastic, and […]
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The Shambles – Chelsea Smiles (and more)
Even though it’s a re-release of a six-song EP from 1997, this album will surely find it’s place on many year lists, because of the whole bunch of bonuses, and even extra bonuses, adding a […]
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Ken Stringfellow – Touched
Somewhere in a fairer world, or maybe more competent one, the name of Ken Stringfellow would be written in golden letters in some so called “R’n’R Hall of fame”, but as things are now, even […]
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Joe Mannix – White Flag
Joe Mannix is back after his Californian chase for the lost love. This time it’s a solo effort (with a little help from his friends, as it happens in such cases) tracing down the folk […]
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Rockfour – Another Beginning
Just as the band’s name partly suggests, RockFour is a fourpiece whose material can be easily placed into the “rock” genre but, what you can’t see from their name is a bunch of sound-digressions to […]
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The Rooks – From The Shelves Of Soundscape Studio
It rarely happens that some outtakes/demos/alternate-mixes collection can be equaled to the regular album release, and it’s exactly the case with this one. As Michael says himself, if he can’t make the song happen just […]
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The Rye Catchers – The Rye Catchers
This is a Canadian band that could easily be described as “Oasis with much more diversity”, and I mean it as a compliment! Had they appeared sometime in the first half of the ’90s, they […]
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The Secrets – Time Will Come
This is an ultimate collector’s item! As it’s appropriately shown on the cover, The Secrets carry us through the secrets of down-under time-traveling, along the contemporary sounding vintage tunes and vintage sounding contemporary tunes as […]
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The Shazam – Goodspeed The Shazam + Rev9
SHAZAM !!! 38 minutes of power-pop dynamite by Hans Rotenberry and his Nashville supre-trio!!! One of the youngest three albums on the POPISM “Best albums of all time” list, and still, it’s strength is equal […]
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Shy Nobleman – How To Be Shy
After we’ve just recovered from the cultural shock that came from Israel in the shape of RockFour, here comes another musical wonder with the same geographical origin. He’s called Shy Nobleman but he really has […]