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Confronted with Camille. Yes, well, surely songs like "Struggle", this is the mind ofa "Whip It Up" and major talent at work. "Take It So Hard", it's "Heaven" is reasonably obvious what's going light-fingered but I don't on. Richards has think the old tart can tell strung together a few me anything about easy-to-remember Paradise that Smokey phrases, knocked out Robinson hasn't already a few hard-to-forget whispered infinitely run-of-the-mill riffs more gracefully. - and - hey presto! Ludicrously overrated we've got usan LP. trouper. MMOct29 Even a cynic like my CREATION good self can f i nd Felt Space Blues something to shout Lawrence, something of about, and Keith's a chameleon (its tummy, tongue is f irm ly in cheek on the My Bloody Valentine, SINGLES perhaps), is now workout of "I Could Novem6er7988:0-0 of how rockabilly Kevin Shields, Deb crooning wearily Have Stood You Up". He doesn't Googe, Bilinda Butcher he "wants to be like you". sound like he's trying too hard. andColmO'Ciosoig Babyf ace sings the It's off-the-cuff, spontaneous Baloos. Talking of The stuff and all the better for it. SINGLES the best British Jungle Book, Lawrence once Keith Richards should be creation since came to a party where used to cherished. The skeleton with My Bloody Valentine Horatio Nelson's live and told us, panic-stricken, skin on is a national institution, Feed Me With Your Kiss right hand or Thomas that the back yard was on fire. CREATION part of our musical heritage. But Chatterton's forgeries. Forget This was shortly after he'd been he should be admired from afar The new My Bloody Valentine the rest - this is as close to love discussing sexually transmitted and kept away from recording EP is the perfect summary of and sex and death as it gets. diseases with young Wilde, as studios. Talk is cheap, and this everything thrilling about both Group of the moment. Record recall.I remember it well. The 16 album is almost as worthless. (3) rock" and "pop" in 1988. of the second half of the backyard. But it wasn't on fire. Terry Staunton, NME Oct 8 Scintillating with homages to the decade. Fact. Fantasy. You Sometimes one worries past and homicide of the future, need it. Gorgeous. MMOct29 about Lawrence. Not ., D I SC H O R D Fugazi`uga71 it is extraordinarily vibrant and today, though. This Y The world of American punk is wasted. This is not the same INXS 1pmd ou Tonight is his most PHONOGRAM a notoriously patchy one. Up group that once lived in Berlin together a nd to your necks in garbage one and were "smelly". Neither is it A promisingly enigmatic, accessible minute, surrounded by jewels the same group that once used mellifluous first few seconds, missive in the next, there is rarely a dead- to support The Primitives and the producer's signature almost, some time. cert bet for brilliance. So even relied entirely upon Colm's then - thump! - the drums and A pity, then, with the promise of former Minor daffy drum rolls, this is the group slump! - the voice. A very large it's so vapid. Threat man Ian MacKaye, Fugazi who have got it right now on musical porch for a very small But any man arrive in a splash of uncertainty. every cou nt more than any temple, in this case the small, obsessed with Here he teams up with members other. It's astonishing. It's an throbbing temple of Michael Barcelona isa of lesser-known outfits Rites Of inward blossoming. It's painfully Hutchence. "Need You Tonight" sort of hero in my Spring and Pitbull, and the hot orgasms all over the place, if is a tasteful absorption of funk book. MM Oct 29 revelation is clear. He's back with you must know. And you must. that unhelpfully dries out all the the most passionate, potent If you want description, the wet, sassy elements. I'm sure Nappy Mondays Íl0100 H)r 0-111C.0 FACTORY material he's been involved with first track scorches and weeps. these guys listen to nothing but since Threat's early ruthless So does" I Believe". So does old soul compilations, and find it problematical to fall for hardcore offerings. "Emptiness Inside", the first 15 they're desperately trying to say Mancunians who as often as not Fluent American vocals wrap seconds of which are coronary- so here, but so i ncapable are use very rude words in their the perspiring punk sound in a inducing. So, in a cooler, dryer they of turning it that this might glamour-free song titles. And cloak of angry colour - the lyrics way, does "I Need No Trust". as well be white, mid-'70s rock, why do all northerners, my excellent scripts of self-analysis. The voices and guitars and which is the sad, natural state rootless self excluded, want From the edgy sound of drums are doing different t0 which it reverts in the end. to be black and skinheads "Burning" ("What is burning in things every time you let them MM Nov s simultaneously? Yobbos are myeyes?") to the hopeless case break down your door and glide never cool. Somebody should Prince of "Glueman" ("He holds his to your bedroom. Kevin and enlighten them. Edwina Currie, I Wish U H PAISLEY PARK home in his hand"), the music B ilinda's vocal duet on "Feed eaver perhaps. Now there's a lady. dictates the brittle moods and Me..." is more simpatico than Prince, I get the impression, This self-consciously the vocals, with their US tang, Gaye and Terrell. My Bloody would f uck mud if it'd move a "alternative" song is not about enunciate the feelings. Valentine are easily the most little and not argue. The B-side her as far as I know. It does, "Suggestion" and its tricky all-encompassing and yet of this harmless Lovesexy cut is though, work up to a near- guitar work is an animated f ilm distinctive sound of our times. billed as "Scarlet Pussy" by blistering hypno-rhythm, of backstreet suffocation, a focus You should kiss the feet of the and I'm tempted to say it's P� on people drowning in lacklustre Melody Maker editorial staff their least irritating slab of lives. But most impressive of all for having the vision and gall to greyness to date. I'd dance to is the opening "Waiting Room", put this band on its cover and it if nobody was looking. On stabbed into action the bass then should it's rather I'd by you rip up your NXSreflection, saucy. guitar before breaking into a garden or squat f loor and send dance to it at the next editorial BELLIA fierce shout for attention, a plea it to the Valentines by carrier meeting for, say, E320 plus for quality of life. (8) Steve Lamacq, dove or Zebra Express. "Feed expenses and a bacon roll.

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