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Pop: This Week's Album Releases
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MANIC STREET PREACHERS
Know Your Enemy
Epic
PERHAPS INTENDED as a concession to those "old" Manics fans
disappointed by what some consider the group's sell-out to
establishment musical values since Richey Edwards's disappearance,
Know Your Enemy is not as primped and preened as their last couple of
albums, reverting to something nearer the bilious turmoil of their
younger years.
That's not to say they've lost ambition - after all, the 16 tracks
include both Jame...
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The Arts: Pop - This Week's Album Releases
The Independent - London
; ... thing that sets Smog's wonderful new album apart from this (and most other) week's releases is its refusal to pander to modern notions of pop activity and the measures that Bill ... There's a deceptive equanimity to the album that packs a much more powerful punch ... Callahan's twisted ...
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Pop: This Week's Album Releases
The Independent - London
; ELLIOTT SMITH Figure 8 Dreamworks ALL THIS week's featured album releases are concerned in one way or another with protest, but while the other artists all seem to have found their own ways ... stalking piano chords and gently weeping guitar ("Junk Bond Trader"), Pixies-style blending of Goth- punk ...
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Pop: THIS WEEK'S ALBUM RELEASES
The Independent - London
; ... mind-boggling success of Santana's 1999 comeback album Supernatural (25 million sales, and ... no means the most high-profile of the week's releases, in terms of sheer verve and musical ... surfaced earlier this year on his mix album Come Get It I Got It, where their brief ... opening bars of ...
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Pop: This Week's Album Releases.(Features)
The Independent (London, England)
; ... precocious Murphy Lee, surely bound for great things in his own right. BASEMENT JAXX Rooty XL IT'S that difficult-second-album time for Basement Jaxx, who have sensibly tried to reproduce the eclectic club consciousness that made Remedy so ... of garage, flattens it out, fills it in and beefs it up, before slamming it ...
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Pop: This Week's Album Releases Blur 13 Food
The Independent - London
; BLUR'S SIXTH album is a grower. On first hearing, it sounds rough and unfocused, the least solid of their releases; but with each subsequent encounter, its character becomes more clearly defined. Continuing their drift away from Britpop ... The Fall ("Swamp Song") and krautrock ("Trailer Park"). The short and sharp ...
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