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Kid Loco A Grand Love Story (Yellow/EastWest) Essential, essential, essential sit-down breaks. Not new. Just impeccable. 9 (MS) Pell Mell Star City (Matador) Scintillating, dexterous pop instrumentals refined to near-perfection. 9 (RB) Michel Pagliaro Goodbye Rain (@) The classic '70s English pop hits plus unreleased stuff. Pag was our Badfinger, our Lobo, our... Andy Kim! 8 (CY) The Wedding Present Tommy (True North) Re-issue of the singles collection covering '85-'87. Still worth unwrapping. 7 (CY) Friend Hot Rod (Dot/Fusion III) Zingy Swedish electro-blippies. Almost amazing, but not quite. 7 (MS) Beth Orton The Best Bit EP (Heavenly) This is like, uhh, really folksy. 6.5 (MS) Paul Newman Frames Per Second (Trance Syndicate) Actor? Doughboy? Texan Upstart? Schizophrenic math rock that doesn't add up. 4 (LE) Various Hi- Fi Daze/Cocktail Nights box set (Rycodisc) It's last call for the cocktail nation. 3.5 (JC) Downchild Blues Band It's Been So Long (Stony Plain) Music for shippers and receivers, temp workers and uh... deaf people. 2.5 (JC)
Isotope 217 The Unstable Molecule (Thrill Jockey) The sound of two Tortoises masturbating (small wieners, I bet). 2 (MS)
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