The Walthamstow guitar guru Nick Saloman is sixty this year and his 21st Bevis Frond album is an undimmed double cd set.
Fusing classic sixties rock and plangent pounding post-punk neo-psychedelia in a string of plaintive and psycho-geographically specific guitar-pop nuggets, it’s capped monumentally by an exemplary 45 minute modal jam.
File The Bevis Frond alongside Robyn Hitchcock and Julian Cope in the English acid-pop survivor nook and wonder how Saloman slipped the mass-acknowledgment net.
Buy this, and then 1991’s New River Head, and begin a late-blooming love affair.
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Joskins, Leeds Music Forum
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Lee Mack, Mack The Life, 2012
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Pirate Crocodile, Twitter
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General Lurko 36, Guardian.co.uk
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Dominic Cavendish, Daily Telegraph
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Neolab, Guardian.co.uk
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Anon, BBC Complaints Log
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Anon, westhamonline.com
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Secretdeveloper, Youtube
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Patrick Kavanagh, Guardian.co.uk
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Rudeness, Youtube
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James Dellingpole, Daily Telegraph
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