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 Everett True

Spotlight – 12: The Lost Girls

To be honest, they had me sold the instant I saw the blurb. All girl old school lo-fi punk band. Telling tales of crushes, stalkers, dead models and police sirens And fuck me, if that isn’t exactly what they sound like too! A bit of X, a bit of The Avengers, a bit of The Leopards, […]

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Spotlight – 11: She Keeps Bees

Here’s what Brooklyn two-piece, female-male coupling, She Keeps Bees DON’T sound like. The White Stripes (What, did the number of people in the band fool you? Can’t think of many other groups with just two members?) Cat Power (What, did the sparseness of the music fool you? Did you feel that sparseness automatically confers a ‘confessional’ […]

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Spotlight – 10: The Caulfield Beats

Well jeez. I was going to write back to the guy and tell him, “interesting music but not my chosen field”…but then I got distracted trawling through my email correspondence with Sean at Drowned In Sound re: the recent Music Journalism week, plus I was playing a mindless Paper Toss game on my iWhatever, and by […]

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Spotlight – 9: Speech Debelle

This music sounds so foreign to my situation right now. It’s still raining. People are still regularly visiting this blog to check on news on the demise of Plan B. It’s still raining but the streets are wide. There’s little claustrophobia here. My wife is due to give birth any series of hours now (her […]

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Spotlight – 8: The Bats

Fuck it. I can’t stop listening to this album. It creeps up on me, catches me unawares. It’s so gentle, deceptively unobtrusive. It’s so sweet and full of subtle magic and intricate guitar motifs and lines that never revel in their own cleverness, just melt. It doesn’t shout, no it never shouts. I have no […]

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Spotlight – 7: The Pastels/Tenniscoats

Notes written on my iWhatever about the forthcoming Pastels and Tenniscoats collaboration Two Sunsets on the plane flying into Perth at sunset for the Revelation Film Festival. Now if I was writing this up for a Guardian or Plan B article then obviously I would structure and make sense of my initial impressions, but I’m […]

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Spotlight – 6: Liechtenstein

Liechtenstein! Liechtenstein! Liechtenstein! Liechtenstein! Liechtenstein! Liechtenstein! Liechtenstein! Liechtenstein! Liechtenstein! Liechtenstein! Liechtenstein! Liechtenstein! Liechtenstein! Liechtenstein! Liechtenstein! Liechtenstein! Liechtenstein! Liechtenstein! Liechtenstein! Liechtenstein! Liechtenstein! Liechtenstein! Liechtenstein! Liechtenstein! Liechtenstein! Liechtenstein! Liechtenstein! Liechtenstein! Liechtenstein! Liechtenstein! Liechtenstein! Liechtenstein! Liechtenstein! Liechtenstein! Liechtenstein! Liechtenstein! Liechtenstein! Liechtenstein! Liechtenstein! Liechtenstein! Liechtenstein! Liechtenstein! Liechtenstein! Liechtenstein! Liechtenstein! Liechtenstein! Liechtenstein! Liechtenstein! Liechtenstein! Liechtenstein! Liechtenstein! Liechtenstein! Liechtenstein! Liechtenstein! Liechtenstein! […]

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Spotlight – 5: Brilliant Colors

Brilliant Colors‘ music captures – in essence, not in sound – the early Beat Happening groove so sweetly you know it must be coincidence. So: not twee, not fey or cute or any of those other words erroneously associated with Calvin Johnson’s work. (It’s not his fault he spawned a legion of admirers who missed […]

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Spotlight – 4: The Lovely Eggs

It’s like listening to The Vaselines being interpreted by The Bobby McGee’s interpreting Moldy Peaches while severely under the influence of snakebite. It’s like being exposed to five generations of art students pretending they’re still seven years old and that’s it’s still really amusing to say ‘poo’. It’s like a musical enema. It’s like hearing […]

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Spotlight – 3: Pocketbooks

Earlier this evening, I was floundering: unable to decide what to do with the remains of a slow-cooked pork roast. Looked at, and discarded, many recipes without even testing them. Finally, I decided to throw in a few slices of apple, a scattering of brown sugar, some vintage cheddar – of course – and toast […]