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I own a lot of CDs. I haven't listened to most of them. I'm going to listen to and review at least two a day until I've listened to all of them.

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I own a lot of CDs. 843 at present count. I haven't listened to most of them. I'm going to listen to and review at least two a day here on https://t.co/lmRdJJIk0N until I've listened to all of them. See below for personal favourite reviews.

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There are a good few standout tracks on here, but the album does have occasional lapses in quality, though overall, it's a pretty consistent album. There could definitely be a bit more room for experimentation though.

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The River Detectives - Saturday Night Sunday Morning - 1989
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The music on this album sounds timeless. It came out in the late 80s and there's some parts from there, but it's a mostly 60s sound but with crisper production, and the songs sound like folk songs passed down, but with a catchy pop twist.

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One last thing - I love the cover art to pieces.

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Bonobo - Migration - 2017
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More albums should open with a collaboration with Jon Hopkins, that's just a fact. A very good and in places powerful electronic album but when all is said and done, I don't feel like writing a tome on it. Certain tracks are definitely better than others.

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What really drives it home though is the connection to my hometown. I wonder about the crossed paths and degrees of separation, but above all, it inspires me to get out there. One day I might have my 15 minutes of fame and join her on the brief list of people from our hometown.

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I hope wherever Kate is now, four years on, she's happy. Hopefully she's still dabbling in music. Maybe she'll make another album when the kids leave home or grow up. It's things like this that really humanises an artist, especially since her music already feels personal.

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One was advertising an "educational baby and toddler music group" she was hosting with a friend. The other, well I won't share all of it, but, this particular passage really moved me.

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There's nothing sadder than a next big thing artist completely dropping off the musical map. I found Kate Walsh through nosing through famous people from my hometown (her, an Olympian, another musician, a wrestler - that's it) and boy is she good. She's the UK's answer to Jaymay.

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It's a really great album filled with ten really great songs and I can't wait to hear what else she has to offer. Now, back to the point about 2012's "indefinite hiatus.". After five years of radio silence, in 2017, Kate made a couple posts to her Facebook page.

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The songs sometimes don't really go anywhere ('Don't Break My Heart' is one of the best songs on here but is screaming for an ending like 'Sea Green, See Blue'), but I think this works in their favour as the lyrics and vocal performances can be so hard hitting they negate this.

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There's some real nasty things sung in such a bittersweet tone here - the last lines of 'Tonight', in fact most of 'Tonight' come to mind. Her stuff reminds me a bit of Damien Rice in this way. 'Don't Break My Heart' is like Rachael Yamagata's 'Don't' a year before that song.

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While it is an incredibly pretentious thing to say, I think it's completely justified. Kate Walsh has a really magnetic voice, one you can't help but feel drawn to. The way she sings really makes you focus on the deeply personal lyrics that make you think "who hurt you Kate?".

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The other review on the cover is from Uncut and it claims "planetary motion seems momentarily suspended whiles [sic] she sings". God, music critics can be so up their own arses with pretension, right guys?

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She seems to be one of those artists that came just at the right time as the first wave of artists were getting noticed online on MySpace etc. - but now a lot of her stuff is offline and she took an indefinite hiatus in 2012. More on that later.

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She was featured on a Chicane album. She was a free single of the week on iTunes. She had one of her songs used in films and Holby City - the biggest one being 'Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging', which is a so bad it's alright watch, but that's not what I'm reviewing here.

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One of the reviews on the cover is from The Guardian and says "the buzz around this engagingly fledgling talent is patently justified". I don't know how much buzz there was around Kate Walsh, obviously enough to get a review from The Guardian, but it's hard to quantify.

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Kate Walsh - Tim's House - 2007
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And then, like the album says, 'All Farewells Are Sudden' and you can bathe in the sounds you've just heard and feel warm and safe, but not overpowered.

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A Winged Victory for the Sullen - A Winged Victory for the Sullen - 2011
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It sounds so cinematic as well as rich and vast, some of the textures on this wouldn't be out of place in a slow, deep and thoughtful sci-fi movie or a scene in a pretentious, over-the-top indie film with two stargazing romantic leads.