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29 March 2013 - Brixton, London

Viv Albertine, VuVuVultures, Left Leg, Mickey Gloss, Big Wave, No Cars, Arthur Gunn, Simon Love (Pictures)

8 March 2013 - Lexington, London

R.Ring, Golden Grrrls, Slushy Guts and Equinox (Pictures)

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Parquet Courts - Light Up Gold (album)

Antony Harding - Why Do Birds Suddenly Appear (album)

Black Angels - Indigo Meadow (album)

Thee Oh Sees - Floating Coffin (album)

Still Corners - Strange Pleasures (album)

Savages - Silence Yourself (album)

Mikal Cronin - MC II (album)

Can’s Ege Bamyasi played by Stephen Malkmus and Friends(album)

Victoria and Jacob - Festival 7"

Vampire Weekend - Modern Vampires of the City (album)

Sauna Youth - False Jesii Part II 7”

Lightning Bolt - Oblivion Hunter

Robyn Hitchcock - There Goes The Ice (2x 12")

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The Chemistry Set
Come Kiss Me Vibrate and Smile Fruits de Mer Records 7”

Article written by Ged M - Oct 7, 2012

A much-lauded (by Peel and Tony Wilson) element of the late 80s psychedelic revival sponsored by the legendary Imaginary Records in Manchester, The Chemistry Set split in 1991 but reformed 17 years later and started playing again in 2011. Their latest single on the vinyl-only Fruits de Mer label recaptures that sound of 80s-reviving-60s; ‘Come Kiss Me Vibrate and Smile’ is a mouthful of a title but the song itself is elegant and insistent candy-coated psych-pop, while ‘Time to Breathe’ is six minutes of swirly psych-rock. The bonus track is their version of Tomorrow’s ‘Hallucinations’, where they up-jangle the 1968 original and beef up the chorus so it’s even more darned catchy. This is the retro sound that just keeps giving, the incarnation of a new ‘new psychedelic movement’.

Links:
http://www.fruitsdemerrecords.com
http://www.myspace.com/thechemistrysetuk