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as two separate entities, it doesn’t make sense, but when you hear the record you go – of course! It totally makes perfect sense why they would do a record together.” Nato loved Folklore , by the way, despite the fact T-Swizz doesn’t initially appear to fit with his oldest loves: he’s played in bands since he was a kid (his current band, The Black Catapult, he describes as “a bunch of mid-30s dads who grew up listening to NOFX and Weezer and Blink-182”),

want to listen to all the scratches and crackles and pops, and some days I want to hear it really smooth.” His collection also includes soundtracks, a huge hip hop section, “and then, I have to have some nu-metal, ‘cos I grew up in the '90s,” he says, name-checking Korn’s FollowThe Leader and Limp Bizkit’s Significant Other . His album of the year so far is English metalcore group Loathe’s I Let It In And It Took Everything

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O ver his 13 years at JB Hi-Fi, Nato McManus has watched the trends of music release and consumption make all kinds of twists and turns; he says that along with major labels revolutionising their models in the internet age and artists taking some control back, comes one of the best new musical movements: awesomely surprising collaborations. “That’s why we have things like Taylor Swift releasing Folklore – which is completely different to anything she’s released in five or six years – and she’s doing it with the dude fromThe National!” the current CD/DVD C-ordinator at JB Mt Ommaney exclaims. “I

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offering his talents on guitar, drums, bass and vocals over the years. But it’s not just those '90s legends he

(“It sounds like Norma Jean meets The Deftones – it’s really heavy but then it has these really pretty melodic parts; it’s near-perfection”) closely followed by Run The Jewels’ RTJ4 and Australian

2. Powderfinger

Odyssey Number Five (reissue) 3. Rex Orange County Bcos UWill Never B Free 4. Queen Greatest Hits 5. Metallica S&M 2 6. Marilyn Manson We Are Chaos 7. Harry Styles Fine Line 8. The Jimi Hendrix Experience Smash Hits 9. Lime Cordiale 14 Steps To A Better You 10. Tame Impala Currents

loves. “I’m one of those freaks who can categorically say, ‘My favourite album of all time is,’” he smiles. “And it’s Pink

Floyd's The Dark Side Of The Moon .” It was this LP which began his extensive, eclectic vinyl collection, and he now owns three copies of that classic title. “The remastered one from a few years

Indigenous artist JK-47’s Made For This , although he’s also pumped for upcoming newies from Something For Kate (out late November), Bruce Springsteen (out late October), IDLES and Deftones (both out now!). Saunter in to JB Mt Ommaney to chat everything from Mogwai to The Seekers, Ziggy Ramo to Andrew Rieu, today!

don’t know if, 10 or 15 years ago, that kind of thing would have happened. Or say, Queens of the Stone Age doing a

ago sounds different to the pressing I have from the '70s, so [which one I listen to] just depends on the day, how I feel – I might

record with Mark Ronson, as their producer! When you look at them

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