Quintessential British pop laced with Delta blues. Orchestral oddities that evoke the strange offspring of John Barry and Bernard Herman, with Ry Cooder joining in the dark side of Sgt. Pepper. As if Syd Barrett undertook the soundtrack of Night of the Hunter. Each song seems designed to be an episode in the life of minds crammed with a vast and puzzling array of worlds and outlooks. Dreamy and sometimes nightmarish locations house weird and wonderful talesas close to a British equivalent of Franks Wild...   [ read more ]

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The return of the Mabuses after over a decade's silence is a bit of an unexpected turn of events, but likely enough Kim Fahy was wondering why the rest of the world -- or at least a good chunk of American indie rock in particular -- had taken so long to catch up with his warm and winning take on arty and off-kilter pop/rock of a definite late-'60s/early-'70s vintage. (That may seem a slight overstatement, but not after one's listened to a lot of things on the Elephant 6 label.) Heading up a ...   [ read more ]

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