The second album - Burn Your Fire For No Witness - is really rather wonderful.
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My word.
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A quite brilliant piece of sports writing about the greatest English (ok England ) cricketer since Ian Botham.
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On Wednesday night, I forced myself off my sick bed to watch Poliça play London's Troxy. I sacrificed West Ham v Norwich the previous night to ensure my fitness. I wasn't going to miss this.…
This looks good.
You need your kitchen.
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Joe Clay, for The Quietus: The last time I saw Neil Halstead, back in October last year after his solo gig at Cecil Sharp House in Camden, I had just written a glowing review of his album as one-third of Black Hearted Brother for tQ, the…
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Poliça's European tour has begun.
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From Seattle last November, this was the first pubic performance of Minor Alps, aka Juliana Hatfield and Matthew Caws. There's a great set of photos from this session on Flickr.…
Aterrific essay on the loss of a great musician. See also, this great piece by Ian Cohen at Grantland: The nostalgic, “Damn, he made some music that was really good” tone of the condolences wasn’t a surprise; tragedy tends to galvanize…
Last night, on the School Of Seven Bells Facebook page: Dear friends, Last night, Dec. 29th 2013, we lost our friend and brother Benjamin Curtis to his fight against cancer.…
No apologies for reposting this. The best Christmas song this millennium.
I support West Ham United FC. It is mostly a torturous experience. In December 2010, the worst West Ham squad of the Premier League era managed to beat Manchester United 4-0 in the League Cup quarter final.…
So many great lines in this song.
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