Gaz Coombes - MatadorFormer Supergrass frontman Gaz Coombes releases his second solo album, 'Matador'. The LP follows 2012's 'Here Come The Bombs'. The album was recorded in Coombes' home studio as well as Courtyard Studios in Oxfordshire, with almost everything on the record played by Coombes himself.

When Newell heard it

Sufjan Stevens scales dusty prairies

Tom Morello

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The standard CD features the 10 orchestral song versions of ‰ÛÏStorytone‰۝

reaching Number 7 in the UK Album Charts

charging out of the gates with a syncopated stomp that comes across as a more agitated take on Kylie Minogue‰۪s ‰Û÷Can‰۪t Get You Out Of My Head‰۪

arranged with the intent to create a 3D stereo sound sensation of actually being in the room with the performers or instruments

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While recording

Every musician needs to take action to keep themselves fresh from time to time

Named after the area of Birmingham from where the group hailed