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  • Summary: This is the latest full-length release for the British rock band led by Nick Saloman.
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  1. AllMusic
    Sep 28, 2021
    80
    The Bevis Frond isn't just a band anymore, they are almost a genre of their own making now, and if Nick Saloman keeps cranking out albums as inspired, alive, and joyously gnarly as this, the next few decades should bring many more delights.
  2. Dusted Magazine
    Sep 15, 2021
    80
    Little Eden pulls off one of Saloman’s best tricks: the record is unerringly faithful to the Bevis Frond aesthetic, a stable sonic construct for some 35 years, and it’s also cleverly responsive to our collective cultural moment.
  3. Mojo
    Sep 21, 2021
    80
    Should rightly have fans and newcomers alike punching the air in solidarity. [Nov 2021, p.88]
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  4. Uncut
    Sep 15, 2021
    70
    Self-reflection is twinned with a rueful survey of the current state of the nation. [Oct 2021, p.25]
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  5. Classic Rock Magazine
    Sep 15, 2021
    70
    For all its retrospection and melancholy there's a determination on Saloman's part to relight past fires, face down the miseries of This Britain. [Oct 2021, p.77]
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  6. The Wire
    Sep 15, 2021
    70
    Retaining his passion and knowledge for psychedelic music in all its multifarious shifting forms, together with a long incubated yearning to steer his guitar sound in the direction of Jimi Hendrix, on Little Eden Saloman intermittently flashes back and storms straight ahead with a honed set of crafted songs and short-fused acid/garage rock explosions. [Sep 2021, p.62]
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  1. charliequaker
    Nov 11, 2021
    10
    On the 24th? album, this eclectic wizard of quintessential psychedelia plays music with a joyous, classic British rock feel that combinesOn the 24th? album, this eclectic wizard of quintessential psychedelia plays music with a joyous, classic British rock feel that combines dreamy pop melodies, choruses inspired by the gods and mind-blowing guitars with a soaring psychedelic sangfroid. Guitarist extraordinaire Nick Saloman plays all instruments on most of the songs. Notes hang in the air and vibrate with the clarity and wonder of hallucinatory angels. His voice magically mixes a genteel urgency with a melancholic wisdom. The songwriting smoothly integrates melody with fluid, trippy rock guitars in a production that rumbles with a garage-y kiss of both warmth and power. I’ve said this before, but there is no truer statement: If you’ve never heard him play, he’s probably the most talented guitarist you don’t yet know. If you’re familiar with his guitar ability, he’s almost certainly among your top ten players. Yes, he is that good! In a just world Nick Saloman would be a hero to all lovers of pop/rock music and all those who worship at the guitar altar. “Little Eden” is as fresh and vital as an album can be, and a continuing confirmation of the extraordinary legacy still being created by Nick Saloman and The Bevis Frond. You might hear hints of artists/bands such as Jimi Hendrix, Elvis Costello, The Kinks, Nick Lowe, Be Bop Deluxe, Teenage Fanclub, J Mascis/Dinosaur Jr., Paul McCartney, Syd Barrett, Wooden Shjips, Robyn Hitchcock/The Soft Boys, Guided By Voices, Bob Mould, Matthew Sweet, Pink Mountaintops, The Byrds, even The Wipers! Absolutely brilliant!!… Expand

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