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ratcheting up a ferocious intensity across its near six minute runtime

Nausea - Vocal Expression

while Fanvu offers an ideal counterpoint

From the opening track "Really Something" to the recent single "Mr Music" (a favourite of Marc Riley and Gideon Coe on BBC 6 music) the album's re-connects Astor's bespoke guitar pop with his long-standing embrace of The Velvet Underground's musical DNA

it will be regarded as a singular masterpiece of 21st century sonic and narrative art” and Pitchfork calls it “one of the most provocative ongoing bodies of work by any American musician

Hollie makes up one half of the duo Mint Julep also on Western Vinyl

" - The Line Of Best Fit

among these myth-haunted songs

this sounds like a saturday night satanic ritual in a sunsetting Austin backyard

“It’s about the little personal realisations and victories that people have throughout their lives

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And long may this continue