Articles by Michael White

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  Teenage Fanclub

  Four Thousand Seven Hundred and Sixty-Six Seconds: A Short Cut to Teenage Fanclub

  PUBLISHED Jan 1, 2006

  Initially a rough-hewn quartet that wanted little more than to drink for all of Scotland, Teenage Fanclub soon evolved into a force of natu...

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  Edwyn Collins & Orange Juice

  A Casual Introduction: 1981 to 2001

  PUBLISHED Jan 1, 2006

  Orange Juice burned briefly but gloriously throughout the early ’80s. Edwyn Collins was a marvel then: a handsome, rigorously intelligent f...

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  High Llamas

  Beet, Maize & Corn

  PUBLISHED Jan 1, 2006

  The best music always sounds as if it was made — and continues to live — at a stark disconnect from the physical world. And this is the onl...

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  Trembling Blue Stars

  A Certain Evening Light: Uncollected Recordings 1996-2002

  PUBLISHED Jan 1, 2006

  There is no limit to the number of ways that a pop song can express romantic disappointment and few people have so ceaselessly explored thi...

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  Brighter

  Singles 1989-1992

  PUBLISHED Dec 1, 2003

  California’s Matinée Recordings is the truest contemporary equivalent to Sarah Records, the late, lamented British indie label that provide...

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  Pearlfishers

  Sky Meadows

  PUBLISHED Dec 1, 2003

  Sky Meadows begins by welcoming a newborn into the world and ends using the transience of a touring carnival as a metaphor for the passing...

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  Relict

  Tomorrow is Again

  PUBLISHED Dec 1, 2003

  Night is falling, silence is rising and the only romance left in your life is the possibly deluded notion that new romance is only a well-t...

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  Gorky's Zygotic Mynci

  The Brickyard, Vancouver BC - October 11, 2003

  PUBLISHED Nov 1, 2003

  What exactly do you want, people? Having had to stand among your pathetic company for the better part of an evening, I demand some answers....