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Apathy & Exhaustion

Author: Clara Barker

I'm a mountain climbing, LGBT advocating, miniature painting, Star Wars nerding, D&D reading, board game playing, comic devouring, constantly napping trans-female scientist from Oxford who listens to music that most folk will regard as pretentious. And I just don't care. Ha.

The legacy of Steve Bronski: culture change through pop

January 4, 2022 Clara Barker My Trans-Agenda, Real talk and opinion

Music can be a movement; one of the recurring themes at the heart of punk rock is fighting for political and/or societal change. And so,

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Laura Jane Grace – Stay Alive (Big Scary Monsters / Polyvinyl Recording Co2020)

January 16, 2021 Clara Barker My Trans-Agenda, Record Review

It may sound silly, but I was really worried about listening to this album. So often with a band you love, their solo work just

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Phantastic Ferniture – Phantastic Ferniture (Polyvinyl, 2018)

September 25, 2018 Clara Barker Record Review

I recently got this album but it took me a little while to listen to it. I soon realised I had been missing out: it

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The Pearl Harts – Glitter & Spit (self-released, 2018)

March 5, 2018 Clara Barker Record Review

The Pearl Harts are a two-piece, female rock outfit from London. I love the album title, Glitter & Spit. Pretty much summed up my getting

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Pale Kids – Holy Mess 7″ (Drunken Sailor Records, 2017)

August 10, 2017 Clara Barker Record Review

So I thought I had my thoughts together for this 7″ review. Thought I had it all sorted. A queer band from Durham – ace.

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Pet Symmetry – Vision (Polyvinyl, 2017)

August 4, 2017 Clara Barker Record Review

Wait, this album came out a few months ago. Oh, oops. Well, this one is a little late then. Ah well, I’d best get on

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Shugo Tokumaru – TOSS (Polyvinyl Records, 2017)

May 4, 2017 Clara Barker Record Review

Well this is an odd one. Gotta admit, I stuck it on and thought Go Team! meets Cornelius with a hint of Andrew Bird. Which

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The Paperhead – Chew (Trouble in Mind, 2017)

April 8, 2017 Clara Barker Record Review

Ok – wow. This year has been crazy busy. I have been all over the place and am only just recovering from what was an

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Fred Thomas – Changer (Polyvinyl, 2017)

January 19, 2017 Clara Barker My Trans-Agenda, Record Review

OK, OK. Yes, here I go again. Another Polyvinyl album. I can hear you already: “But Clara, we know you are a sycophantic Polyvinyl fangirl.

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Pijn – Floodlit (Holy Roar Records 2017)

January 18, 2017 Clara Barker Record Review

So I hear about Pijn and they get compared to a few bands that make me prick my ears up, Explosions in the Sky, Mogwai,

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