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.
General Lurko 36, Guardian.co.uk
General Lurko 36, Guardian.co.uk
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Borathigh5, Youtube
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Horatio Melvin, Twitter
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Anon, BBC Complaints Log
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John Robins, Comedian
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Pnethor, pne-online.com
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Dominic Cavendish, Telegraph
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Yukio Mishima, dontstartmeoff.com
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James Dellingpole, Daily Telegraph
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Al Murray, Comedian
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Cabluigi, Guardian.co.uk
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Neva2busy, dontstartmeoff.com
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Carla, St Albans, Dailymail.co.uk
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