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This tasteful pairing is another quality branch of the Gavin Baker extended family tree. The Jet Johnson track is an atypically funky outing, (Caroline Nesbø's wavering vocal keeping things on the indie-pop side of the white soul fence) whilst the transatlantic Glider offering sees Baker throwing some Geoff Farina-esque lead guitar shapes over a busy rhythm section track.

Matt Dornan
June-July 2003

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