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Outwitting the Sadness Rover: Tamsin Chapman’s Best of 2013

Outwitting the Sadness Rover: Tamsin Chapman’s Best of 2013

Disclaimer: this is self-indulgent, but it has a bearing on my choices.  You know the monster balloon in The Prisoner – Rover?  Well just lately, there’s been an intermittent ball of sad (or anxiety or both) hovering nearby, just in my line of sight.  Sometimes it’s come so close it’s jumped inside me, a tight […]

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Tamsin’s Twice-Yearly Pop-Moan-Fest Jan-June 2013

Tamsin’s Twice-Yearly Pop-Moan-Fest Jan-June 2013

“What’s the matter? Your chicken taste like pork?”

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Still Fuck Albums: Tamsin’s Musical 2012

As everybody at Collapse Board should know by now, “girls’ music” is always the best kind and everything else is B.O.R.I.N.G. So bring it the fuck on.

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An A-Z of Divorce

Divorce sound like witches burning and power tools.

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Various – Why Diet When You Could Riot? (Tuff Enuff)

“It seems that the only way to escape is to attempt to carve out however small a pocket of resistance as one can,” reads the album’s fanzine

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22 of Tamsin Chapman’s favourite songs of 2012 so far

You hear people say, “music isn’t as good as it used to be”, but you don’t ever hear them say “books aren’t as good as they used to be”. That’s because to say such a thing would reveal that person as a massive tool.

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The Slap: Chalk Circle, DC Hardcore and the Death of Fun

Listen to this song and if you don’t want to dance you’re a great big sopping wet honking limp nong.

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Fuck Albums: Tamsin’s Best of 2011

This year, I’ve flitted from offering to offering like a bluebottle in a blocked toilet.

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Mary Hampton – Folly (Teaspoon)

So you’re thinking Tinkerbell and glitterwings, floaty velvet scarves and dream catchers. Please don’t.

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Veronica Falls – Veronica Falls (Slumberland/Bella Union)

Call me shallow but I’m starting to tire of nufuzzwurld.

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