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Friday 6th April 2012
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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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Dream of Sleeping
May All My Delusions Come True Terminal Cell

Article written by Matt H - Feb 21, 2010

Dream of Sleeping - In Church Hall due to snow

Melton Mowbray’s Neil Cartmell is able to craft a very decent downbeat song. Most successful are his simplest songs - such as the opener Scars with its Simon and Garfunkel guitar. And the gentle strings and shake in the voice of Wait in Line in particular help it chunter along to a good US indie-folk effect.

It can get a bit over earnest though. There are some lovely gentle tunes that recall spare folksters like Things in Herds - but sometimes lacking just that trace of pop, of joy which they lace into their tunes. And every so often the emotion gets dialled up and the tunes start to soar atmospherically and it gets a bit too Snow Patrol (albeit an acoustic one) for comfort.

But reviewing can make you churlish. There’s a talent at work here, not least the one that binds up the slipshod beats and stuttering interjections on Why How When. It’s worth keeping half an ear on.

Links:
http://www.dream-of-sleeping.co.uk/
http://www.myspace.com/dreamofsleepingtheband