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I make no secret of the fact that The La’s are the best band there’s ever been. It wasn’t always that way though – my first listen to the eponymous debut album saw it shelved for six months as it didn’t tickle my fancy. I was 17-18 at the time, and this was a long time before I considered myself an audiophile and even rated things (deeply) like mixing, mastering, the natural sound of the acoustic guitar, or whether there was audible dust on the amps. I was too busy having a breakdown and too deeply into Portishead’s debut, Leonard Cohen’s Greatest Hits/Best Of, and JeffRead More →