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Schubert: Symphony in Bf No5, D485; German Dances D90
The Pick, the Sickle and the Shovel [Explicit Lyrics] [Extra tracks] [Import]
The Essential Oscar Peterson: The Swinger
Jewish Voices in the New World [Milken Archive of American Jewish Music]
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The raw artiness and German rock influences heard on this U.K. sextet's landmark Transient Random-Noise Bursts (1993) have been distilled into a smooth sour-mash cocktail here. As with sister act The High Llamas, there's a buoyant '60s whimsy to these tracks, recorded in Chicago (with Tortoise's John McEntire), Düsseldorf and elsewhere. Laetitia Sadier has refined her Françoise Hardy routine, and Tim Gane marshals his vintage synths to fine effect on "Prisoner of Mars" and "The Flower Called Nowhere." --Jeff Bateman