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Craig Pulsar

By Donald Bush • Oct 7th, 2011 • Category: jrbig, long players

This mini-album is the first release in several years from the eccentric solo artist whose live shows usually see him coaxing a member of the audience to play the part of the ‘Disco Robot’ by donning a cardboard, bacofoil-covered ‘head’.



Shirley Lee

By Donald Bush • Aug 31st, 2011 • Category: long players

If you’ve heard of Shirley Lee it’s most likely ‘An Old Cricketer (For John Peel)’, the single from this extensive double album and one which, in a way, characterises this release.



The Seventeenth Century

By Donald Bush • Aug 31st, 2011 • Category: jrwee, short players

Four more tracks from the GLasgow folk troubadours, which see them employ sweeping strings and soaring brass to out-Mumford the Mumfords.



She’s Hit

By Donald Bush • Jul 3rd, 2011 • Category: jrbig, long players

It’s easy to be sneery about a band who wear their influences so readily on their sleeves, and She’s Hit – who are named after a Birthday Party song, for goodness sake – are definitely not shy at hiding these.



King Post Kitsch

By Donald Bush • Jul 3rd, 2011 • Category: jrbig, long players

Being a bit late to the game, the fact that this debut from Charlie Ward’s album shares its title with Talk Talk’s 80s debut has been already discussed