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Friday 6th April 2012
All Day BBQ Festival

Bands:

- Sparrow and the Workshop
- 6 Day Riot
- The Nuns
- Colours
- Dignan Porch
- Y Niwl
- Singing Adams (solo)
- The Horses of Instruction

+ free BBQ
+ SoundsXP DJs

The Windmill
Brixton
Price: £7 in advance / £8 on door
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On Our iPod

Golden Grrrls - New Pop 7”

Chris Devotion & The Expectations - Amalgamation & Capital (album)

Trailer Trash Tracys - Ester (album)

Throwing Up - Mother Knows Best 7”

Howling Wolf - Complete Chess Masters 1951-60

The Ketamines - A Rotten Bond/1 Yr (from Oddbox Singles Club Pt 2)

Cardinal - Hymns (album)

Proper Ornaments - Taking the Gamble Out of Buying 12”

Darren Hayman - January Songs (album)

Various: Marshall Teller EP 12”

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Album Review

The Soft Hills
The Bird Is Coming Down to Earth Tapete Records

Article written by Ged M - Jan 19, 2012

The Soft Hills

The most obvious comparison, at least for the first half of the album, is with Fleet Foxes (and to a lesser degree, Grizzly Bear). This Seattle band have similar pastoral folk songs and the same glorious high harmonies (opener ‘Phoenix’ is a standout in this respect), while singer Garrett Hobba sports slightly adenoidal Pecknold tones. But there’s also a spookier, reality-sundered aspect to their work, like the sense of disorientation that comes on the point of emerging from a particularly vivid dream, which is particularly captured on the second half of the record. ‘Tidal Waves’ begins to break the mould with its drone rock opening, which transmutes into something heavier and avant-garde. Following that the album takes a turn into ethereal 70s psychedelic folk and acid experimentation. That’s the point when it starts to lose me, especially ‘Return to Eden’, which is sung from the perspective of a horse and has lyrics like: “born again in the cosmic stream”. The harmony-heavy folk-infused tunes are worth hearing, the more hippie-ish flights of fancy less so.

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