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Best Of 2012, Guest Editors: The Big Pink’s Milo Cordell On Stephen King’s “Salem’s Lot”

As 2012 comes to an end, we are taking a look back at some of our favorite posts of the year by our guest editors.

There were shimmering moments on 2009’s excellent A Brief History Of Love wherein the Big Pink appeared poised to sneak the adventurous, clever early-’80s synthpop of the New Romantics back into relevance beneath a cloak of Phil Spector (by way of Jesus And Mary Chain) noise. The vision, alas, remained a bit murky, lost in Psychocandy-lite squalls, never quite cohering into a fully realized whole. On the band’s beguiling sophomore effort Future This (4AD), however, the Brit electro-gaze duo lives up to its considerable promise with 10 sleek tour-de-force anthems: Imagine a Y-chromosome-fronted Britpop version of Tegan And Sara or maybe a grittier, wised-up a-ha backed by a supergroup comprised of Kevin Shields, Bernard Sumner and Jam Master Jay, and you’ll be in the right neighborhood. “Lose Your Mind” could be a Simple Minds b-side circa “Sanctify Yourself.” In short, a fantastic, uplifting listening experience. The Big Pink’s Milo Cordell and Robbie Furze will be guest editing magnetmagazine.com all week. Read our brand new Q&A with Cordell.

Cordell: The master himself’s favourite book. You know that scary house in your town that people always talk about thats on top of a hill? Well, imagine if vampires moved in, and started gliding past your windows. A book definitely inspired by Dracula, but how many books and bands did this book go on to inspire?

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