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Unheard Album Project: March 2017
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— 18 Apr 2017 Tom 2 comments

The (much delayed) third playlist for this project, covering the 31 records I listened to for the first time in March. Delayed partly because it was a lot harder to get some of these songs to play well with others! Full list under the cut.

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The Sound Barrier Podcast: 2: The Beloved Rogue / Neruda
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— 17 Apr 2017 Pete Baran 1 comment

The second episode of our fortnightly silent sound film comparison podcast. This week our topic is political poets, or poets who have been exiled for their politics (though in one case possibly for his terrible poetry too). Our poets are Pablo Naruda[…]

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The Sound Barrier Podcast: 1: The Lost World / The Lost City Of Z
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— 3 Apr 2017 Pete Baran Comment

So for a while myself and Pamela Hutchinson, of Silent London fame have been talking about doing a more regular podcast. And while we love talking about silent films, we also like new films too. And so The Sound Barrier was born over a Campari Spritz[…]

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2017 Albums I Like Part 1
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— 1 Apr 2017 Tom 7 comments

Thanks to the Unheard Album Project (March mix on its way!) I am finally in a position where I can ACTUALLY DO a list of the records I’ve enjoyed most in “Q1”. (Note that at no point in my career as a ‘music journalist’ […]

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