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Friday 6th April 2012
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Colours
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The Windmill
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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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God Help The Girl
Baby You’re Blind Rough Trade

Article written by Paul M - Jun 1, 2010

GHTG

Stuart Murdoch flips open his little black contact book and purrs… Yesssshhhh, Linnea Jonsson of Those Dancing Days, the girl with the curly mop topped hair of a brunette Temple and the gravel-like voice of a white Bassey… Yesssshhh, schhhhhplendid…. Or he would if he was a Bond villain or a lizard.

So Jonsson duly becomes the latest attractive and talented female to get the call and guest on a God Help The Girl single. A young Swede whose sultry warble could make even my withered extremities stir adds her effortless sizzle to a funky 70s beat to deliver the raunchy soundtrack to a quiet night in for me and my perversions. Far less self-conscious than anything on last year’s album, it presumably has nothing to do with the film soundtrack Murdoch has planned. The flipside is a slightly pacier take of gorgeous album closer A Down and Dusky Blonde which is neither better nor worse than the original, just different.

Links:
http://www.godhelpthegirl.com