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Grand Salvo – Needles On a basic level, "singer-songwriter" describes what Melbourne's Paddy Mann does, but bring context in and suddenly your phrase is inadequate. Every entry-level altbro and his guitar is a singer-songwriter. Paddy Mann is not entry-level. Grand Salvo make music that demands adjectives: listening to songs like Needles, you find yourself constantly reaching for newer, more poetic ways of describing what you hear; trying to imagine what kind of world Paddy Mann was inhabiting when he created them, because it seems impossible he was on this one. There's a fleeting, unpredictable [...]

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