Most of the tunes on Keep Away The Dead were born at Mara Hall

The music is the same as before

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It’s a joy to behold

THE EX - Catch My Shoe LP Death Rock Most of the tunes onThe new record from Dutch veterans The Ex is quite oddly packaged. It looks like someone has obtained the design by coding a Design Your Album Cover Automatically programme and then setting the controls to Mid 1980's, Obscure, and Rough Trade. From the very plain typefaces to the choice of images, it manages to look completely outdated, and yet to completely suit their (timeless) music at once. The Ex, you see, are No Ordinary Band. Would anyone else