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CD reviews

• Robin Gibb & RJ Gibb, The Titanic Requiem performed by Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (Rhino) **; VCMG, Ssss (Mute) ***

  Both Titanic Requiem and Ssss are of great interest to music scholars and archivists for many reasons. read more

• Miike Snow, Happy To You (Downtown/Universal Republic) ****

  SWEDISH synth trio Miike Snow return with little change in style or content from their self-titled debut outing – and that is no bad thing. read more

• Grimes, Visions (4AD) ***

  IT might be pristine, but the third album from Montreal electronica aficionado Claire Boucher is still a bit of a slog at time. There’s a fine line between beguiling and inaccessible, and Visions doesn’t always tread on the right side of it. read more

• Andrew Bird, Break It Yourself (Bella Union) ***

  LOVINGLY arranged and almost smelling of sea-spray with its ocean themes, Bird’s latest opus has an increasingly distinctive sound. read more

• The Wedding Present, Valentina (Scopitones) ***

  The Wedding Present’s eighth studio album – and first since 2008’s El Rey – was recorded in France, California and Brighton, but it is still the sound of Leeds. David Gedge may move around, his indie-rock musicians may change, his hair stays impossibly jet black, yet his musical roots will always show through. read more

• David Sylvian, A Victim of Stars (Virgin) *****

  AS a teenager, David Sylvian’s heroes were Bowie and Roxy Music. Five years later he was a hero himself; the darling of the new romantics and singer with Japan. read more

• Portico Quartet, Portico Quartet (Real World) ****

  PORTICO Quartet move on from being the sort of young jazz band that appeals to people who don’t like jazz (and gets up the noses of some aficionados) to new, more interesting territory. read more

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