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		<title>steady your trembling hands and see what&#8217;s in front of you</title>
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Despite a predilection for toy instruments and flashes of childlike humour, one thing that has marked all of E&#8217;s work has been a common thread of misanthropy and melancholy. Blinking Lights and Revelations explains why, by opening a window on his rough childhood and damaged adulthood. As a matter of course, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jshopa.wordpress.com&blog=3555785&post=254&subd=jshopa&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>See yourself reflected in one, there&#8217;s a hole in the middle you can&#8217;t seem to fill</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Sep 2008 06:28:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Harvey Danger: Little by Little

Now that the initial flush of fanboy exuberance has passed, perhaps I can look at Little by Little with a bit more objectivity. As I&#8217;ve always maintained that their debut is one of the great overlooked gems of the nineties (possibly the greatest), the band&#8217;s sudden return was unbelievably thrilling to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jshopa.wordpress.com&blog=3555785&post=245&subd=jshopa&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mountainous waves are breaking</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Aug 2008 00:51:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gojira: From Mars to Sirius

Two pop culture movements that began in earnest in the seventies were heavy metal and ecological science fiction. The early heavy metal sounded indeed heavy, weighted down with doom. It was slow, powerful, and unyielding, and it was political only insofar as it could see through drug-hazed eyes. Ecology was fast [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jshopa.wordpress.com&blog=3555785&post=191&subd=jshopa&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The CD that you hold in your hand is the product of a left-sided mind</title>
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Mark E. Smith is both the eye and the storm. Unchanging over these many years and albums, he is the only constant in The Fall, the spindle on which the whole wheel turns. He is The Fall at the molecular level and he is the same as he was thirty years [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jshopa.wordpress.com&blog=3555785&post=74&subd=jshopa&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Tiny broken operatic sounds dissolved a loss that could not be found</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[John Vanderslice: Pixel Revolt

&#8216;So you hope that one person could solve everything, and for me that&#8217;s you. Sometimes that dream is a sad delusion, but sometimes it&#8217;s true.&#8217;

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		<title>I found a book on how to be invisible&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 May 2008 00:22:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kate Bush: Aerial

Kate Bush would probably be the ideal person to ask how to be invisible, at the time of this album&#8217;s release having spent pretty much fifteen years willfully under the radar after spending the eighties as a major star. Aerial made for a rather ostentatious return, all things considered &#8211; hook-filled and highly [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jshopa.wordpress.com&blog=3555785&post=27&subd=jshopa&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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