Q (Magazine) (p.102) - 3 stars out of 5 -- "[W]ith a penchant for fancy dress and trashy pop, their campily electro punk falling between Scissor Sisters and New Young Pony Club."25.31862
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Entertainment Weekly - "...gentle, weird, and disturbing as ever..." - Rating: A-Musician (6/95, p.73) - "...a return to his John Lennon/Syd Barrett-inspired roots....an intimate recording--just Hitchcock on acoustic guitar and piano performing a batch of truly wonderful songs--and perhaps the most overlooked album of his career..."Goldmine - Highly Recommended74.52071
$14.63
Melody Maker (7/8/95, p.34) - "...thoroughly Home Counties, Syd Barrett-inspired songs sporting reptile heads and porcupine quills...deserves a shrine within the tiny pantheon of excellent post-Sixties acid rock..."51.07377
$8.75
Magnet (p.100) - "It's a winner, stringing antsy, Superchunk-flavored rockers beside fuzzy, romantic declarations..."CMJ - "[C]onsistently indelible sunbeams of songs."Pitchfork (Website) - "[T]he fidelity is pretty uniform, and the band's essentially optimistic, sunny disposition holds true across ballads and pop songs alike."19.16459
$35.38
Dirty Linen (8-9/01, p.82) - "...This collection works on 2 levels, as a twangy roots-rock album and as a set of honest songs whose meanings go deeper than you'd first expect..."Mojo (Publisher) (4/01, p.92) - "...Sturdy, confident country..."18.83253
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New Music Monthly (7/99, p.52) - "...SUMMERTOWN is a delightful set of shamelessly melodic pop songs with an appropriately clean, warm production....one of the best debuts of recent memory..."17.51622
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Uncut (p.91) - 3 stars out of 5 - "A QUESTION OF TEMPERATURE is the sound of Stamey letting off steam, with the emphasis firmly on guitars and spontaneity."Mojo (Publisher) (p.104) - 3 stars out of 5 - "[I]t's the covers that stand out..."17.51622
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Q (3/04, p.110) - 3 stars out of 5 - "[The album] keeps the spirit of pre-Beatles rock'n'roll ticking over with a brisk 13 tracks....A fun spot to visit..."17.51622
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Uncut (6/03, p.113) - 3 stars out of 5 - "...Singer John Howie Jr's throaty delivery - steeped in classic tears-in-beers lore - is perfect for these tales of woe and women..."17.51622
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Mojo (Publisher) (10/03, p.120) - 3 stars out of 5 - "...This suits mournful late-night listening..."17.51622
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Q (10/03, p.108) - 4 stars out of 5 - "DANDELION moves Holley into rockier territory without losing the intimacy and vivid observation that made her first album so enjoyable..."17.51622
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Rolling Stone (p.76) - 3 stars out of 5 - "In his best moments, Fulks sounds like the wiseass bastard son of Roger Miller - high praise indeed."Entertainment Weekly (No. 821/822, p.141) - "[A]nyone who loves the country music of the '50s, '60s, and '70s will relish GEORGIA HARD, Fulks' near masterpiece of homage..." - Grade: AUncut (p.114) - 4 stars out of 5 - "[A]n acerbic and reverential pastiche planted firmly in early-'70s countrypolitan and honky-tonk storytelling traditions."Dirty Linen (p.84) - "[The album] covers a lot of ground while remaining decidedly country in spirit and approach."17.51622
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Uncut (p.102) - 3 stars out of 5 -- "The Texan garage veteran puts all his fun, earthly sins aside in honour of the season, and bursts forth with a baker's dozen of common Christmas staples."17.51622
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Uncut (6/03, p.109) - 3 stars out of 5 - "...Fundamental rock music with no unnecessary frills..."Magnet (8-9/02, p.82) - "...Simply the best thing this band has done..."CMJ (7/22/02, p.14) - "...Nice masterpiece, boys!..."17.51622
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Uncut (p.116) - 4 stars out of 5 - "More meditative, this fifth LP hones the Southern harmonies and guitar-pickin' crosstalk of the brothers Good..."Magnet (p.135) - "[With] a healthy dose of swirling psychedelia and a distinctly Byrdsian spirit that hovers over their brotherly harmonies and twin jangling guitars."Mojo (Publisher) (p.95) - 4 stars out of 5 - "Thrilling pop-country harmonies. Sparkling, jangly acoustic guitars. A seamless, melodic blend of psychedelia and C&W....The songs and instrumentals here hang together beautifully."17.51622
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CMJ (9/4/00, p.24) - "...Power-pop [mixing] gorgeous harmonies, chiming guitars, and lilting melodies...with a strong sense of their lineage..."17.51622
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Rolling Stone (4/11/02, p.130) - 3.5 stars out of 5 - "...A formidible collection of dreamy folk-pop songs..."Magnet (6-7/02, p.81) - "...Cary senses she's singing in top form and commands expansive emotional range..."17.51622
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Rolling Stone (p.70) - 3 stars out of 5 -- "'Gunslingers' sounds like some lost pop-rock gem from 1973."Kerrang (Magazine) (p.49) - "'Friends Like You' in particular captures the group's fusion of power-pop tuneage and giddy rock thunder..."17.51622
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Rolling Stone (p.70) - 3 stars out of 5 -- "[A] power-pop record that flows like the Minutemen's DOUBLE NICKLES ON THE DIME."Spin (p.86) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "The result plays like the greatest British Invasion best-of you've never heard."Alternative Press (p.119) - "[G]lorious, sunny pop pastiche....You'll never want to hear the end of this..."Magnet (p.99) - "NEVER HEAR THE END OF IT mostly rolls with mellow '70s gold sounds and the band's most McCartney-esque melodies."17.51622
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Dirty Linen (p.76) - "Blessed with a smooth country twang, Lauderdale can summon up echoes of George Jones, Buck Owens, or Ricky Skaggs while crooning a top-drawer batch of original tunes."No Depression (p.92) - "'Chances' comes as close to bluegrass Buddhism as you're likely to hear....Bluegrass purists will feel perfectly at home here."Mojo (Publisher) (p.108) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "[N]ew old-time songs with a contemporary edge, written alone or with notables such as JD Souther, Shawn Camp and septuagenarian Melba Montgomery, and beautifully performed."17.51622
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No Depression (p.106) - "It's a potent brew of tough, impassioned instrumentation and vivid, ominous imagery, strong stuff even when ladled with whimsy, and melodically catchy enough to stick to your innards."17.51622
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CMJ (1/5/04, p.16) - Ranked #19 in CMJ's "Top 20 Most-Played Albums of 1985"Melody Maker (7/8/95, p.34) - "...FEGMANIA! was Hitchcock's first record with The Egyptians and ranks with GLOBE OF FROGS as the best. `My Wife And My Dead Wife', `Goodnight I Say' and `Heaven' [are] deserved cult classics..."Musician (6/95, p.73) - "...the album where Hitchcock finally hit his stride as a solo artist....include[s] the sort of classics...that would endear him to college radio for eternity..."17.51622
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Melody Maker (7/8/95, p.34) - "...many...of Hitchcock's best tracks, performed with a muscularity that would have hugely benefited some of the studio versions..."17.51622
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Dirty Linen (pp.44-45) - "[T]he innovational approach, coupled with superb musicianship, are the elements that allow BeauSoleil to keep on enriching the repertoire, and the genre in general, even after 34 years in the business."17.51622
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Dirty Linen (p.52) - "Alvin and the Guilty Women jell on their recording debut like they've played together for decades."Billboard (p.33) - "The performances are so strong throughout that one can only pray this collaboration turns out to be more than a dalliance."Q (Magazine) (p.117) - 3 stars out of 5 -- "They get plenty of opportunity to show off their chops....Sounds like everyone had a ball as well."17.51622
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Record Collector (magazine) (p.84) - 5 stars out of 5 -- "[S]ome of it is hauntingly beautiful."17.51622
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Billboard (p.32) - "The rollicking 'Bird on a Wire' is perhaps the album's best cut, mixing smart lyrics and sizzling guitar work..."Uncut (magazine) (p.96) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "'Idaho Cowboy' and 'I Hold The Bottle, You Hold The Wheel' are irresistible."17.51622
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Rolling Stone (p.107) - 3 stars out of 5 -- "It's a spectacular genre exercise filled with analog-synth storms, cowbells and sugary hooks."Spin (p.84) - "Vocodered backup singers counter an emphatic piano line on 'Dream About the Future'...[and] cascading harpsichord kicks off 'No Vacation'..."Alternative Press (p.102) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "[A]n improbably brilliant synthesis of the era's best radio pop -- especially the massed-harmony bliss of Electric Light Orchestra."Mojo (Publisher) (p.102) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "[TRAVELLERS IN SPACE AND TIME] recalls similarly space-obsessed power-poppers ELO at their late-'70s peak."Paste (magazine) (p.78) - "TRAVELLERS IN SPACE AND TIME leans heavily on futuristic kitsch, sporting campy touches like robotic pulses....TRAVELLERS manages to take listeners on a journey out of this world..."Pitchfork (Website) - "The gooey bubblegum of 'No One in the World', the sprightly 'Dignified Dignitary', and the warbly vocodered blip of 'Strange Solar System' are all sumptuous, a little strange, and seriously hooky."17.51622
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Entertainment Weekly (3/16/01, p.69) - "...[Their] 1980 masterpiece....making a strong case for the Boys' oddball genius." - Rating: AQ (12/92, p.154) - 3 Stars - Good - "...this has rightly been adjudged a stylistic tour de force..."CMJ (3/26/01, p.12) - "...One of Robyn Hitchcock's most memorable batch of songs, as evidenced by just how imaginative and timeless it still sounds today..."Mojo (Publisher) (p.122) - 5 stars out of 5 -- "'I Wanna Destroy You' and 'Insanely Jealous' keep the neurotic faith....It's irradiated by Hitchcock's gamma-ray imagination..."Mojo (Publisher) (5/01, p.122) - "...60s songcraft, outer imagery, and 3-part harmony....it is hard to think of a better record made in England in 1980..."NME (Magazine) (3/10/01, p.32) - 8 out of 10 - "...A wonderful album...A Freudian slip down a particularly unnerving rabbit hole, a Bacon-esque landscape of slithery things with teeth where they shouldn;t be..."Uncut (magazine) (p.100) - 5 stars out of 5 -- "[T]here's a bit of punk rush, a swoosh of psychedelia and much lyrical playfulness."17.51622
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Rolling Stone (p.70) - 3.5 stars out of 5 -- "The songs are filled with jokes -- but the punch lines often turn into epiphanies."Spin (p.74) - "SKY eschews the occasional decade-hopscotching of 2007's TRAFFIC AND WEATHER, reaching a new, raw sincerity and cohesiveness..."Alternative Press (p.112) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "SKY FULL OF HOLES is simply gorgeous: From easygoing rock of -- of the twangy or '70s country-folk variety -- to understated piano and windows-down power-pop, the album is exquisite."Uncut (magazine) (p.84) - 3 stars out of 5 -- "[T]here are moments of irresistibly sticky sweetness, notably the affectionate ballad 'Richie & Ruben', and the giddy Cheap Trick-alike 'A Dip In The Ocean'."17.51622
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Spin (p.74) - "Pivotal opener 'Don't Forget How Much I Love You' offers not only a harbinger of high-spirited hooks, but enough romantic reassurance and lovestruck lyricism for a windows-down roadway rendezvous."Uncut (magazine) (p.84) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "Just about every song clicks, but the hard-driving, good-to-be-alive vibe of 'Don't Forget How Much I Love You' is especially irresistible."17.51622
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Mojo (Publisher) (p.102) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "A gifted performer with a voice moulded in bar-room blues heaven, he doesn't just offer the usual array of breakdowns....'Don't Blame The Wrong Guy' is truly the real thing."17.51622
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Record Collector (magazine) (pp.86-87) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "[They are] now joined 35 years after their inception by Patti Smith guitarist and Nuggets supremo Lenny Kaye. It's a monumental seal of approval which boosts their energised garage rock'n'soul to further levels of near-demented passion."17.51622
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