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BELLE AND SEBASTIAN – “Legal Man”
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— 16 May 2000 Tom Comment

BELLE AND SEBASTIAN – “Legal Man”
A goofy 60s-pop pastiche which sounds a little like the theme from Eurotrash, a little like Stereolab on a Ribena high, and a little like a group doing whatever they want, because they know their fa[…]

Signal Drench
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— 16 May 2000 Tom Comment

Signal Drench did a Top 100 albums of the 90s. I’m a sucker for top 100 albumses of the ninetieses, as you know. Signal Drench’s I mostly disagree with, especially the top end (Slint annoy me), but there’s some neat and compact writ[…]

All Music Is Bad!
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— 16 May 2000 Tom Comment

All Music Is Bad!: in a couple of days we launch the Bad Music issue of Freaky Trigger, and to mark the occasion, a special blog is being readied, a sick mutant lock-it-in-the-attic half-brother of NYLPM which will last for the 6 weeks the new issue […]

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