Maher Shalal Hash Baz - Blues Du JourGeographic, the Domino imprint label set up in the year 2000 by Stephen McRobbie and Katrina Mitchell of The Pastels, are pleased to announce the reissue of three of their seminal label releases: Maher Shalal Hash Bazs experimental Blues du Jour, The Pastels The Last Great Wilderness the score to director David Mackenzies film of the same name and Lightships astounding Electric Cables. After a welcome tip off from David Keenan at The Wire, Japanese

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Far In follows 2019’s deservingly acclaimed This Is How You Smile

because like them she knew how to create a personal universe by exploring electronic sounds and to find a place in an eminently masculine environment

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