The quirky indie-pop Gary Waleik penned for Big Dipper was incinerated in an early ’90s major label backdraught.
The pathologically prolific post-mod Robert Pollard’s fourth album of the year siphons eleven plangent tunes from this slumbering giant, over which the former Guided By Voices front-man free-associates his oddly affecting shred and stick poetics and classic rock in miniature melodies.
The cautiously pretty title track is the most effective indie-rock earworm of the year so far; Wiry post-punk meets skinny-tie new wave on Dr Newpile; and the delightfully unresolved I Wish You Were Young closes the album in a spiralling stasis.
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Stuart, Chortle
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Neolab, Guardian.co.uk
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Emilyistrendy, Youtube
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Johnny Kitkat, dontstartmeoff.com
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Dominic Cavendish, Daily Telegraph
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BBC iPlayer edition of discussion of Stewart Lee on A Good Read
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Yukio Mishima, dontstartmeoff.com
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DVDhth's grandparents, Twitter
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Guest, Dontstartmeoff.com
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Frankie Boyle, Comedian
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Iain, eatenbymissionaries
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Brighton Argus
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Lee Mack, Mack The Life, 2012
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Sidsings000, Youtube
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Tweeterkiryakou, Twitter
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Aiden Hearn, Twitter
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Pnethor, pne-online.com
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Rudeness, Youtube
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Horatio Melvin, Twitter
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James Dellingpole, Daily Telegraph
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Pudabaya, beexcellenttoeachother.com
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Visualiser1, Twitter
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Gabrielle, Chortle.com
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