Inky Fingers: Maggoty Lamb wonders if January really is a strange time to release an album?

If the music industry hype-cycle continues to gather speed, this time next year we could be experiencing nostalgia for an era that hasn't even dawned yet"Everything is more beautiful in the past," Midlake's Tim Smith tells Andy Gill, in the current issue of The Word. But as the frozen retrospective wastes of the decadal cusp have finally given way to a torrential thaw of new names and faces, this month's music press has actually contained a good deal of encouragement for those in whom Smith's co...

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