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Salsa Celtica - En Vivo El Norte

Thu, 2010-06-10 00:00
A world-and-folk fusion that will last rather a sweaty summer fling.
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Rox - Memoirs

Thu, 2010-06-10 00:00
She can hold her own with the majority of her peers.
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Wild Nothing - Gemini

Wed, 2010-06-09 00:00
Bedroom-born indie is transformed into luscious examinations of the human condition.
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Heatwave - Too Hot to Handle

Wed, 2010-06-09 00:00
No Heatwave: no Britfunk, and certainly no Thriller.
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John McLaughlin and the 4th Dimension - To the One

Wed, 2010-06-09 00:00
McLaughlin is still playing with fire and finesse several decades into his career.
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Richard Fairhurst's Triptych - Amusia

Wed, 2010-06-09 00:00
The technical standard is enviably high, and the music expresses its own identity.
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Surfer Blood - Astro Coast

Wed, 2010-06-09 00:00
A synthesis of all that’s prevalent in today’s all-conquering US indie-rock invasion.
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Jimi Hendrix - Fire: The Jimi Hendrix Collection

Tue, 2010-06-08 00:00
Or, more accurately, It’s Father’s Day: Have a(nother) Jimi Hendrix Best-Of.
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Various Artists - The Old Grey Whistle Test – The Album

Tue, 2010-06-08 00:00
Thirty-eight tracks that serve to summarise the OGWT ethos.
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The Gaslight Anthem - American Slang

Tue, 2010-06-08 00:00
Third album from Springsteen-influenced New Jersey (former) punks.
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Devo - Something for Everybody

Tue, 2010-06-08 00:00
Devo return once again to chart the downfall of the American Dream.
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Against Me! - White Crosses

Tue, 2010-06-08 00:00
A boat-rocking work with plenty of merit in places.
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Ed Harcourt - Lustre

Tue, 2010-06-08 00:00
Harcourt proves he’s a singer of uncommon charm on this fifth album.
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Benjamin Britten - String Quartets 2 and 3 / Three Divertimenti (Elias String Quartet)

Mon, 2010-06-07 00:00
The Elias Quartet catches Britten’s powerful emotional undercurrents superbly.
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Peter Phillips - Cantiones Sacrae 1612 (Choir of Trinity College, Cambridge/Richard Marlow)

Mon, 2010-06-07 00:00
This feels like choral perfection… Fabulous stuff.
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Various Artists - Stravinsky: Rite Of Spring / Revueltas: La Noche De Los Mayas (Gustavo Dudamel; Simon Bolivar Youth Orchestra of Venezuela)

Mon, 2010-06-07 00:00
The ideal orchestra to tackle these spring-like explosions of blossoming youths.
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The Chemical Brothers - Further

Mon, 2010-06-07 00:00
The Chemical Brothers show no signs of fatigue on their seventh LP.
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Wintersleep - New Inheritors

Fri, 2010-06-04 00:00
Set to prolong their critical love affair with a resolute classiness.
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Donny Hathaway - Extension of a Man

Fri, 2010-06-04 00:00
The music here is incidental once transfixed by Hathaway's intense rapture.
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Oasis - Time Flies... 1994-2009

Fri, 2010-06-04 00:00
A best-of set that highlights exactly where things went wrong for the Manchester legends.
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