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Robert Dallas Gray

rdg_music@musicians.today

<p>Life without buildings, Whin, Even Sisters, solo. He/him.</p>

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    if I was is the most Mum single of 1985. I think I actually bought it for her birthday #totp

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    handheld in black and white is an *amazing* record #totp

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    backing track to this sonia tune sounds like 80s roedelius #totp

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    man the darklands singles felt like such a breath of fresh air. a genuinely new sound really — sleek drum-machine driven pop rock derived wholly from the initial jamc iconography #totp

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    wet wet wet the most scottish protestant-coded band that doesn’t contain a flute #totp

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    god is there any worse music than LA hair metal #totp

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    god it pisses me off so much that morrissey is such a cunt because things like going on #totp wearing a hearing aid are GREAT

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    reeling at a globally successful pop band writing ‘all I want is 20/20 vision, a total portrait with no omissions’ #totp

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    there really needs to be a reassessment and proper archiving of super-cheap late 80s/early 90s uk dance music #totp

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    ok I will do a TINY bit of #BandcampFriday promo. one post for each act I’m in on there. first up my most recent ‘proper’ album The Vallum. recently described as what it would sound like if grey clouds could play music, which is apt imo! https://robertdallasgray.bandcamp.com/album/the-vallum

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    been a bit busy this #BandcampFriday but I did buy a good haul ... first up the new dane law/chants on quiet details. loved the previous collab and looking forward to this one. intricate samply stuff if you like, I dunno, the books maybe? https://quietdetails.bandcamp.com/album/bonded-pairs

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    audrey hall tune on #totp a story about how, even if there was certainly a racist consensus in politics and media, there could be a sort of cultural unity in a bit of lovers’ rock charting high

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    reminder I have a track in collab with the great howie reeve on the latest for gaza with love comp — there are deals on the three-album package and all proceeds go to good causes #BandcampFriday https://forgazawithlove.bandcamp.com/track/bodies-in-the-sky-by-howie-reeve-robert-dallas-gray

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    first instabuy for #BandcampFriday — new seagull! https://seagullmusic.bandcamp.com/album/bow-down-megafauna-2

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    also for #BandcampFriday, 25% off anything from Whin, using code bcf0826 https://whin.bandcamp.com/

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    we’re going to go to a fête today. and it has a DUCK RACE. A DUCK RACE.

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    10yo: his microphone is so tiny and his tie is so tiny #totp

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    hanky panky is electroswing #totp

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    I’ll confess I’m not a *massive* psb fan but I still feel privileged to have coincided with their earthly reign #totp

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    catch is an absolutely marvellous song and a completely suicidal choice for a single #totp

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    god hue and cry were smug #totp

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    something quite sad about early 2ks #totp. felt even at the time like the last days of something

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    went to see the eldest play the girls rock showcase today. which means she a)is annoyingly much cooler than me b) has played saint luke’s before I have

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    queer zennials are completely correct to rate later eurythmics/lennox. absolutely gorgeous shit #totp

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    I fucking *despised* the beautiful south from the bottom of my heart at the time. they seem so innocuous now. funny what time does #totp

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    when I was younger I used to think music production was mostly about inventing interesting mic techniques and it’s actually about just recording things really well and not fucking around with them too much

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    there’s a parallel universe where morrissey isn’t a cunt and it’s wonderful #totp

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    duel is a pretty nothingy song imo, but the wee verse hook makes it almost great. the sort of thing you can’t copyright or get publishing for but without which the song isn’t the song #totp

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    just now realised I’ve never been able to take spiritualized seriously cos they sound like doctor and the medics #totp

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    shake the disease has a good claim to best pop song of the 80s. incredibly harmonically complex — god knows where gore got it from #totp