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Archive From 1959: The Billy Childish Story

Billy Childish

Archive From 1959: The Billy Childish Story

Poet, photographer, artist and film maker, he's made over 100 albums

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7.5

Label
Damaged Goods
UK Release date
06/07/2009
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  1. 8.0 |   The Sunday Times

    Irresistible pop hooks are stuttered and spat over serrated guitars and train-wreck rhythms, in a stew of approved influences scraped from 1966-67, 1976-77 and the country-blues songbook
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  2. 8.0 |   Mojo

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  3. 8.0 |   The Quietus

    Accompanied by Medway Wheelers by the Buff Medways, a tome of his poetry, this compilation would make for a fine introduction to one of the greats
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  4. 8.0 |   Uncut

    As a personal vision of music, as a vehicle for a unique attitude, and as a compilation of 51 rough-arsed, broken-tongued garage songs, Archive From 1959 is great.
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  5. 8.0 |   The Sunday Times

    Irresistible pop hooks are stuttered and spat over serrated guitars and train-wreck rhythms, in a stew of approved influences scraped from 1966-67, 1976-77 and the country-blues songbook
    Read Review

  6. 8.0 |   Mojo

    Print edition only

  7. 8.0 |   The Quietus

    Accompanied by Medway Wheelers by the Buff Medways, a tome of his poetry, this compilation would make for a fine introduction to one of the greats
    Read Review

  8. 8.0 |   Uncut

    As a personal vision of music, as a vehicle for a unique attitude, and as a compilation of 51 rough-arsed, broken-tongued garage songs, Archive From 1959 is great.
    Read Review

  9. 6.0 |   The Guardian

    There's something of the Daily Mail op-ed writer about his current outfit, the Musicians of the British Empire - huffing and harrumphing at every cultural development, issuing dire hell-in-a-handcart warnings about modern life
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  10. 6.0 |   The Guardian

    There's something of the Daily Mail op-ed writer about his current outfit, the Musicians of the British Empire - huffing and harrumphing at every cultural development, issuing dire hell-in-a-handcart warnings about modern life
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