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Magichour

February 12, 2010 · 0 comments

Magichour

Magichour, the self-titled debut release from acclaimed songwriting duo Ian Housten Shadwell and Gemma Deacon is an intricate tapestry of sounds wrapped into dreamy pop songs. Gemma and Ian are best known as the songwriting team behind iconic Sydney acoustic pop classicists, Cactus Child.

Magnet / Where happiness Lives
I have always had a deeply sentimental side, the kind of cloying cry in the movies kind of girliness that has marked me as a soft cock lover of the acoustic ballad, and they don’t come anywhere softer or more ballad like than this fingerpicked folk paen to a lost love. It became the soundtrack for a particularly difficult break up in which I would press replay with a Pavlovian frequency, each time feeling the tears well in my eyes with a delicious sadness. My own instincts aside and I can recommend it you as a very pretty song indeed by someone who I think is more or less unknown outside of his native Denmark.

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Malcolm Middleton

November 1, 2009 · 0 comments

Malcolm Middleton

The fifth solo album of Malcolm Middleton (ex-Arab Strap), Waxing Gibbous, is the next defining statement in his journey, adorned with his usual blend of darkness and irony, humour and intimacy. The new opus is composed from years worth of scribbles in notebooks, which were ‘chiseled and connived into being songs’.

The Auteurs / Lenny Valentino
I must have missed this band the first time around, but since reading Luke Haines’ autobiography, I am hooked. Anyone who can write about their own life and come across so badly gets the ‘thumbs up’ from me!

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