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Friday 6th April 2012
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Sparrow and the Workshop
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The Nuns
Singing Adams
Y Niwl
Colours
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The Windmill
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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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Demo Review

The Great Distance
The Great Distance Swine Maid

Article written by Matt H - Jul 25, 2005

The Great Distance�s stated aim is to take British alt-country in a new direction. Leaving aside the rather niche nature of the ambition, the question you are left with is not so much �Do they?� or �Where?� as �Why?�. To pick some reasons:

Computer Moon swoops and dives like a seagull after your chips and is just as irritating. But at least it�s different - the laid back blues pootle of Easy River shows the record�s true colours. (What are they? Why, shades of Gray, natch.) There�s the pointless drum twattery in Heartfelt Peace, and Tom Waits for No Man is a crap joke, badly executed (I�m tempted to go round and scrub their mouths out with soap, not as a punishment you understand, just �cos that way they might even sound vaguely like the great man). And there�s Childless Children�s Performers � its vaguely cruel characterisation a pale echo of the American Music Club, with Eitzel�s empathetic croon replaced by a curiously empty whine.

In Computer Moon they put it to us: �This song doesn�t have much of a chorus; And I�m not sure about the verse; I�m just singing about my angel; Or is it something else that makes this so much worse?� Well, actually, yes. You�re accomplished but you�re dreary and you�re foisting it on us. The Great Distance isn�t really far enough.

Links:
http://www.thegreatdistance.co.uk/