The Singles Jukebox

Plugging away…

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Anthony Easton: This is Autobanish in both the Kraftwerk and the German motorway sense, and it makes me want to drive all night to escape my inescapable ennui. 
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Cédric Le Merrer: It’s been a long time since a Mogwai song was interesting for anything but its texture, and this is the equivalent of the dull, sturdy carpeting at my office.
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Iain Mew: “Remurdered” slowly and painstakingly sets up an atmospheric scene, just in order for its MONSTER SIZED SYNTH GROOVE to come along and stomp around it knocking things over. Except that then the plants around the previously peaceful looking ground rear up and drags the monster down until it can move no more and is part of the scenery. This is the most exciting thing I have heard Mogwai do since… ever?
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Daniel Montesinos-Donaghy: More instrumental pulp moodiness from the masters of instrumental pulp moodiness, with just enough malaise in those keys to keep it from becoming aural vapour.
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Alfred Soto: Although I don’t have much use for these people, the patience with which this unfolds impressed me, notably the Music For the Masses-era synth guitar and stomp at the 3:30 mark. Like Depeche Mode, they have silly ideas about titles and sex.
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Brad Shoup: The beloved clockpunchers of instrumental rock: their manner is mild, they’ve never let a full three years pass between albums, their collaborations work on the page and in the headphones. I’ve not been paying super-close attention, but it’s also possible they’re funny. There’s something about the serpentine solo — the spaces and phrasing, specifically — that seems like an imitation of some streetwalking ’70s rock vocalist. The synth line turns over and over, reshaping itself here and there, but then Bulloch leans into the off-beat, they drape a guitar sheet over the works, and we coast to close. 
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Josh Langhoff: This gave me double amnesia.
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