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Cast - Al-Bandaluz (disc 1)

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Album Review

Release date: 30 November 2002

Cast - Al-Bandaluz (disc 1)

Magic Hour

Are our standards too high? Have we listened to too many amazing rock records for yet one more heartbreakingly competent disc to leave us so unmoved?...

Are our standards too high? Have we listened to too many amazing rock records for yet one more heartbreakingly competent disc to leave us so unmoved? All that pre-millennial bullshit is just grist for the mill of uninspired broadsheet columnists, but the unavoidable truth is that, well, we've heard it all before. Too many times. And better. Are we jaded? It's not you, Cast...

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  • Apr 11, 1999

Tracklisting click track to read more

  1. Viajero Inmóvil
  2. Jerezcali (Pueblo de Dos Mundos)
  3. Conversión
  4. Lamento del Gato
  5. Damajuana
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