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Team, Grandaddy, The Apples In Stereo,\nof Montreal,\nThe Clientele,\nThe Polyphonic Spree,\nKelley Stoltz,\nGomez,\nThe High Llamas,\nDjango Django,\nBC Camplight,\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eand Supergrass.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"deep-blue-view","title":"Deep Blue View","description":"\u003cp\u003eNo less than 12 months later arrives \u003cem\u003eDeep Blue View\u003c\/em\u003e – not so much of a follow-up, as a mini-flipside moving the Jazz from AM to PM, between city and sea. Usually by now, \u003cstrong\u003eDaveyhulme\u003c\/strong\u003e’s own could-be John Barry would have left distractions of success for suburban side-projects and writing with his fellow Mancunian musicians, but AM Jazz left unfinished business - and, with 50 or so session recordings leaving a litter of sonic debris strewn about the cutting room floor, one major clean-up.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eDeep Blue View\u003c\/em\u003e is 6 brand new tracks crafted from its reconstructed and revived remnants, unfurling like Sinatra’s \"\u003cem\u003eWee Small Hours\u003c\/em\u003e\" to reinforce the strangely beautiful atmosphere of Al’s now revered repertoire. 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