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		<title>The Strokes – Angles (2011)</title>
		<link>http://chimeramusica.wordpress.com/2011/03/15/the-strokes-angles-2011/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Mar 2011 18:12:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Wright</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is no greater irritant than a bunch of whey faced middle class twerps attempting to play reggae and in this respect, &#8216;Macchu Picchu&#8217; is atrocious as genocide. The good news is that after this most miserable of starts, the Strokes remind us that new wave did not die with Elvis Costello&#8217;s &#8216;Spike&#8217;, and is &#8230; <a href="http://chimeramusica.wordpress.com/2011/03/15/the-strokes-angles-2011/">Continue reading <span>&#187;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=chimeramusica.wordpress.com&#38;blog=5075818&#38;post=1744&#38;subd=chimeramusica&#38;ref=&#38;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Lykke Li – Wounded Rhymes (2011)</title>
		<link>http://chimeramusica.wordpress.com/2011/03/05/lykke-li-wounded-rhymes-2011/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Mar 2011 09:11:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Wright</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Phil Spektor meets the Shangri Las in electroclash car crash. What&#8217;s not to like? Reminiscent in tone of Groove Armada&#8217;s &#8216;Paper Romance&#8217; this album takes tales of break up, revenge and despair, sets them to the most infuriatingly catchy melodies and whips a synthtastic souffle of pounding percussion, tinkling bells and girly vocals into one &#8230; <a href="http://chimeramusica.wordpress.com/2011/03/05/lykke-li-wounded-rhymes-2011/">Continue reading <span>&#187;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=chimeramusica.wordpress.com&#38;blog=5075818&#38;post=1734&#38;subd=chimeramusica&#38;ref=&#38;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Kinks – Lola vs. Powerman and the Moneygoround (1970)</title>
		<link>http://chimeramusica.wordpress.com/2011/02/18/the-kinks-lola-vs-powerman-and-the-moneygoround/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Feb 2011 18:41:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Wright</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the days when men were men and Ray Davies took a song about an encounter with a transvestite to the top of the charts. The story of the Kinks is a strange one. A prodigiously gifted songwriter, Ray Davies was always an outsider to the Beatles and Stones in-crowd. His acutely observed vignettes of &#8230; <a href="http://chimeramusica.wordpress.com/2011/02/18/the-kinks-lola-vs-powerman-and-the-moneygoround/">Continue reading <span>&#187;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=chimeramusica.wordpress.com&#38;blog=5075818&#38;post=1704&#38;subd=chimeramusica&#38;ref=&#38;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>PJ Harvey – Let England Shake (2011)</title>
		<link>http://chimeramusica.wordpress.com/2011/02/08/pj-harvey-let-england-shake-2011/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Feb 2011 18:02:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Wright</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Simply. Brilliant. Take that Mr. Cowell&#8230; There are times when it seems its just not worth chewing through the straps and for those of us that remember Thatcherism in all it&#8217;s hideous detail, the empty council housing, the riots in Parliament Square, the pointless and tragic Falklands conflict, even Ben Elton deserves to be recognised [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=chimeramusica.wordpress.com&#38;blog=5075818&#38;post=1682&#38;subd=chimeramusica&#38;ref=&#38;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Iron and Wine – Kiss Each Other Clean (2011)</title>
		<link>http://chimeramusica.wordpress.com/2011/01/25/iron-and-wine-kiss-each-other-clean-2011/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Jan 2011 19:57:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Wright</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If I wanted to listen to the Eagles, I&#8217;d get out my time machine and go back to 1974. Ok, that may be a little strong, Sam Beam is a fine songwriter and this is a fine album, albeit one with a radio friendly sheen. The thing is, I remember the early 70&#8242;s quite well, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=chimeramusica.wordpress.com&#38;blog=5075818&#38;post=1661&#38;subd=chimeramusica&#38;ref=&#38;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Decemberists – The King Is Dead (2011)</title>
		<link>http://chimeramusica.wordpress.com/2011/01/07/the-decemberists-the-king-is-dead-2011/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Jan 2011 18:08:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Wright</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A reigning in of sorts (did you see what I did there?). Seriously, though the epic prog folk of &#8216;The Crane Wife&#8217; and &#8216;Castaways and Cutouts&#8217; has been abandoned in favour of a beautifully produced collection of songs, the Decemberists draw on the well of melancholia to good effect. Sadly it was for their wilful [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=chimeramusica.wordpress.com&#38;blog=5075818&#38;post=1642&#38;subd=chimeramusica&#38;ref=&#38;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Placebo – Black Market Music (2000)</title>
		<link>http://chimeramusica.wordpress.com/2010/12/31/placebo-black-market-music-2000/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Dec 2010 19:11:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Wright</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[
God bless Placebo! Spiteful, excessive and narcissistic, they rock like cannibals. Nineties mutant offspring. Take a pinch of Jerry Lee Lewis, stir in the Spiders from Mars, bring to the boil with a dollop of Bauhaus. We should be proud&#8230;Happy Ne...]]></description>
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		<title>Album of the Year + Best of the Rest 2010…</title>
		<link>http://chimeramusica.wordpress.com/2010/12/08/album-of-the-year-best-of-the-rest-2010/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Dec 2010 18:10:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Wright</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[No question here, album of the year has to be &#8216;High Violet&#8217; by The National. Absolutely stunning and it has to be said, streets ahead of the competition. This was the year The National really delivered. A league of their own. The next nine, reviewed elsewhere in these pages&#8230; 2. Tindersticks &#8211; Falling Down A [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=chimeramusica.wordpress.com&#38;blog=5075818&#38;post=1586&#38;subd=chimeramusica&#38;ref=&#38;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Go-Betweens – Before Hollywood (1983)</title>
		<link>http://chimeramusica.wordpress.com/2010/12/03/the-go-betweens-before-hollywood-1983/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Dec 2010 17:43:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Wright</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The best songs sound as though they were discovered rather than contrived, and in &#8216;Cattle and Cane&#8217; the Go-Between&#8217;s Grant McLennan gave us one of the truly brilliant songs of the early eighties. Quite unlike anything else from the period, this is catchy, quirky and lyrical. A wonderfully evocative snapshot; infused with melancholy, looking forward, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=chimeramusica.wordpress.com&#38;blog=5075818&#38;post=1573&#38;subd=chimeramusica&#38;ref=&#38;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Suede – Dog Man Star (1994)</title>
		<link>http://chimeramusica.wordpress.com/2010/11/08/suede-dog-man-star-1994/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Nov 2010 21:29:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Wright</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There were only two bands worth listening to in the Britpop movement and neither of them were called Oasis. This album transcends the genre effortlessly, providing the definitive soundtrack to a generation for whom the alienation of the after party comedown became a lifestyle. Bernard Butler, a guitarist and arranger of prodigious talent and singer <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=chimeramusica.wordpress.com&#38;blog=5075818&#38;post=1538&#38;subd=chimeramusica&#38;ref=&#38;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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