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Album Review: David Bridie - Take The Next Illusionary Exit

Ross Clelland
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"Covers his usual mix of the personal and the political"

A grab-bag compilation designed as fan-funded companion piece to last year’s Wake album gets deserved wider release. Covers his usual mix of the personal and the political with songs that didn’t quite make the cut for the album proper, plus soundtrack snippets such as his richly coloured work for That Eye, The Sky. Then there are some idiosyncratic covers, from a Nat King Cole standard via new-wave one-off classic Another Girl, Another Planet to the pop cheese of Billy Ocean’s Love Really Hurts Without You turned into a stuttering bit of bedroom synth racket.