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Westwood: The Jump Off by Various Artists

Review by sound.and.vision

Let me get this off my chest first of all, Tim Westwood is a twat. Tim Westwood, or just Westwood, was BBC's "main man" for the world of hip-hop and reggae in the early 2000s; it wouldn't be until 2002 that they would properly embrace this side of mu...

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Slaughterhouse-Five, or The Children's Crusade: A Duty-Dance with Death

Review by kirk781

An iconic anti war novel with some weird time travel bits ensconced within it. Sometimes, especially in the first half, I found the novel tedious in some parts but it soon opens up. The author alludes openly to war and philosophy even from the aliens...

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Kamaal the Abstract by Q‐Tip

Review by Stevie Chick

That Q-Tip spent his own money to purchase the rights to this previously-shelved album suggests how close it is to his heart. That it took the name he chose when converting to Islam in the mid-90s, Kamaal, as its title suggested that this follow-up t...

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King of the Beach by Wavves

Review by Camilla Pia

Nathan Williams has never been one for welcoming listeners into his world with open arms. In fact he's made things decidedly difficult since the first few Wavves tracks spread like wildfire around the web in 2008. Two hastily thrown together records ...

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Doll Creature by David Toop & Max Eastley

Review by Colin Buttimer

Doll Creature is Max Eastley and David Toop's first recording since 1994's Buried Dreams and only their third since 1975's New and Rediscovered Musical Instruments. Both are criminally long out of print. Buried Dreams in particular was a brilliantly ...

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Summer Days (and Summer Nights!!) by The Beach Boys

Review by Chris Roberts

Released just four months after Today! in July 1965, The Beach Boys' ninth album was at first deemed by some to be a regression. Its predecessor had, on its second side, revealed the now studio-locked, pot-guzzling Brian Wilson's knack for melancholy...