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Piano Magic Diaries : The Troubled Sleep

“Did we want to be on a label called Green Ufos? We were called Piano Magic for fuck’s sake, so we couldn’t exactly throw stones in that glasshouse.”

4ad records, album, arcane delights, electronica, indie-rock, piano magic, post-rock, postrock, the troubled sleep of piano magic

The Durutti Column – ‘Without Mercy’ (Factory Records, 1984/Factory Benelux, 2018)

“But wait! A drum machine in a modern classical piece? Only on Factory Records. I’ve never, to this day, heard anything so wrong be so right. “

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Jane And Barton – ‘Jane And Barton’ (Cherry Red, 1983/Optic Nerve Recordings, 2016)

“…if you listen carefully, you can almost hear the sound of a gentle breeze in the rushes as you laze on a soft picnic blanket, staring up into the blissful blue.”

1983, album, cherry red records, edward barton, indie, jane and barton, Jane lancaster, music, record

Pacific – ‘Inference’ (Creation Records, 1990)

“In every race, the also-ran, in every play, the understudy, at every festival, a bottom of the bill. And so to Pacific. “

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Insides – ‘Euphoria’ (Guernica, 1993)

“We’re not interested in being experimental or difficult. I see ‘Euphoria’ as this Astrid Gilberto thing, or even like the Bjork album: something pleasant, something nice.”

1993, 4ad, 4ad records, album, euphoria, guernica, insides, julian tardo, kirsty yates

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