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 Tom Randall

Times New Viking @ Tone, Sydney, 25.08.11

The crowd watched attentively, on the precipice of joyous and spontaneous engagement.

 Tom Randall

Shabazz Palaces – Black Up (Sub Pop)

I gave it name. “Oblique hip-hop”: angular but open, unkinked but unlinked

 Tom Randall

Song of the Day (guest editor) – 1: Those Darlins

The store where I bought the record called it “Redneck Ramones”.

 Tom Randall

6 (and a bit) favourite musical encounters from the first half of 2011, around which the miscellany of life lies

Most are gigs. Music lives in open air.

 Tom Randall

Iceage – New Brigade (What’s Your Rupture?)

Iceage have the wisdom to be brief: what they evoke is too much to bear for too long.

 Tom Randall

Fucked Up – David Comes To Life (Matador)

Woah, what the? Fucked Up? Monochrome?

 Tom Randall

Manifest This – Collapse Board exists to prove nihilistic fucktards like Morrissey wrong

So, Morrisey. Collapse Board exists to prove nihilistic fucktards like you wrong.

 Tom Randall

Micachu And The Shapes and The London Sinfonietta – Chopped And Screwed (Rough Trade)

This album makes me want to sell my guitars.