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with a modicum of taste. I Paul Weller: Uh lluh. Oh i especially when your Yeah (60! Discs) impossibly child-like voice
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of whose name you‘re records like this people as usual. it‘s hard to look
meant to make the sign of should buy. Urban away When Kristin HCl’Sh
the cross, in the same way London emits a sound that l5 0" this kind 0f {mm-
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results on this four-track treat are. at times. not
unlike the Mick
Talbot-produced Galliano. How rich. and how strange. (CMcL)
with. not least Mari Boine‘s ‘lt Sat Duolmma Mu‘ and an exquisite song by cajunists La Bottine Souriante. (Alastair Mabbott)
I Supertranlp: The Very BestOt . . . (AHA) Supertramp— aren‘t they
and Emerson. Lake and gorgeous. mellow jazz . (3999373 Banquet) Sad Palmer. the heinous V overtones. One of the j B‘chnggy Fasuall)’ docs adversaries in the punk ' tracks of the year — get ; "Olhmg ‘0 d'SPc' h'S
. hard-won reputation as
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wars? That ‘Dreamer‘. hold of this at all costs. though — the one you used ' (PO)
to shuffle about to in that
awkward prepubescent I Luca: Just A Little Bit way when your big . More (Cooltempo) Who'c fam‘g" is we" 935' brother fed it loud through - ‘Discovered‘ by his next i l‘5 sell'by dale (sometime his new-fangled music door neighbour. who just ' m 1983)- (AM)
centre. Or ‘The Logical . happened to be half of the I I mantles“: 3093' Song‘ - remember when ; En Vogue One World ‘ (Fuel/“'93: 7000" Guys ......... .. that used to come on TV l production team. Lucky. l 00“ 03"“ (Shock) TWO and you would swear the ‘ huh! What‘s more. God‘s 2 fine ones well worth guy with the long hair at ; blessed him with the type ; seeking out- Manifesto the piano looked like | of boyish good looks that i plunder the sonic range. Jesus? That‘s it. appeal to l makes Smash Hits readers l making the first Single We the consumer‘s shrouded start puberty. imagine a heard in 3895 lhat many memories ofthe 70s. Let gruff Kenny Thomas dOCS Chimc- Slthl' them discover that the ' funkin‘ along to Diana I Michael Hampton doesn‘t songs they didn’t already Brown and you‘ve got the 1 get ‘00 CXClthi Wthh know/own/pass over in the ‘ full picture. (PO) might be ‘1 PTOblcm for jumble sale stand up well 1 some. but from here it just beside all those i I flagged Jack: Get Radical Sounds WC" 0001- RiPc'S half-remembered images l (Island) Throng guitars Singer makes more Of an _, ......... a let them laugh at the l meet ‘hip’ dance beats affair about scaling the ' ' ' "‘2‘". appalling lyrics to and. he . instant heights. but he gets to a o o 0 ‘Breakfast In America‘. credibility with both respectable altitude overa I ve I n e d I n b u r9 h and then force them to wa ne‘s and club worlds_ . billowy guitar wash which swallow their credibility strgight up Radio 1's recalls Kitchens Of 5 U N D 3 G s T and admit what a seedy little avenue with its Distinction. but with its user-friendly artefact this annoying catchiness. If feel Planted more P L H o U s E compilation is. (Fiona dance music keeps up like squarely 0“ term firma. t h e Shepherd) this, I‘m seriously going to (AM) .. ..
have to think of growin I The Jennlim: Just Got . SEES: - ' .Sifiif' flit ‘55 ""-
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I mum“; label that brought us A ;._ ' .3553} "'1 '**- egg-35:25. I The Mouth: I-loolrllne Schtoom/Subllme: Fight Suede are Playing 0" The " . ' .' '1" (Sacred Heart) The ‘ntg Fuun' (Umbo) Jennifers’ youth - average ' ‘ i: ' 2;: ~;:;:;:-- . ' :' hookline makes my ears Techno and rave records 38¢ ‘JUSt under eighteen. " " .3; go pop,‘ The Mouth‘s are all about taking the bl" Slu88i$hh¢§5 and - 5? debut most correctly familiar. and perverting it tiresome Phasmg “fleets . I avers. ‘Hookline‘ is a enough to rejuvenate the delta“ from a couple 0f . :: I: .. .. .:;-: .......... -. a .. '3".- . .~ flexible friend. pop that same loops, samples and CXUberam bums- $55335" ;., 3' ;-;-.- "’4 bends and weaves and refrains time and again Invigorating? I nearly ' , ' . '14" 35:2" .... .. " 23:35 33:3: =:=::::::-; ...-.=:=: ..... .523. 3:::=:=::::- .-:=:::-:' turns on a Sixpence. Both these tracks lock into “mm “P- (AM)
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