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AlbumsLand of Talk – Life After Youth
There’s a certain kind of rock song that seems to envelop you in its own little bubble. For three minutes or so, everything outside slows to a crawl wh... Read more »| 15 May 2017 -
AlbumsDo Make Say Think – Stubborn Persistent Illusions
Constantly underrated next to their peers Godspeed You! Black Emperor and Broken Social Scene, Toronto's Do Make Say Think have always been more than just th... Read more »| 15 May 2017 -
AlbumsLast Days – Seafaring
The oceans continue to be a chief source of inspiration for the Northumberland-born, Edinburgh-based composer Graham Richardson, who titled his 2006 debut Se... Read more »| 15 May 2017 -
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Pumarosa – The Witch
Pumarosa have a flair for the dramatic. While gothic, 4AD artists from the '80s may be the most obvious touchstones, Pumarosa imbue this icy style with a lot... Read more »| 15 May 2017 -
AlbumsGlass Vaults – The New Happy
The second album from New Zealand’s Glass Vaults is apparently recorded in a way specifically intended to induce Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response, ... Read more »| 11 May 2017 -
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Girlpool – Powerplant
“As a society I feel that we perceive softness and vulnerability as traits that are ‘weak’, and people emotionally disconnect themselves in... Read more »| 10 May 2017
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Her's – Songs of Her's
Every time someone says ‘Mac DeMarco’, another group of chorus pedal-bearing, 20-something slackers form a band... or so it would appear. Spend t... Read more »| 08 May 2017 -
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Weirds – Swarmculture
Leeds four-piece Weirds aren’t really that weird. They describe themselves as psych-grunge but their sound is more reminiscent of old fashioned metal. ... Read more »| 08 May 2017 -
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PWR BTTM – Pageant
Any PWR BTTM fans hoping for more of the same fun, upbeat pop-punk anthems as heard on their debut Ugly Cherries will be surprised by what they hear on Pagea... Read more »| 08 May 2017 -
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Gorillaz – Humanz
If this is the sound of good music in this tentative spring of 2017, then there is hope yet for the arts. And where there is hope for the arts, there is hope... Read more »| 05 May 2017 -
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Texas – Jump on Board
After nearly thirty years in the biz, Texas' ninth album Jump on Board finds the Glaswegian pop titans in a reflexive mood. Love, loss, regret and forgivenes... Read more »| 04 May 2017 -
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Tica Douglas – Our Lady Star of the Sea, Help and Protect Us
The second record from Tica Douglas collects moments and feelings from partway through a journey that might have no end. Over terse acoustic guitar strumming... Read more »| 03 May 2017 -
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Amanda Palmer & Edward Ka-Spel – I Can Spin a Rainbow
Light a candle in a dark room and wrap up snug; this is a haunted house of a record. Dark corners, echoey corridors, lyrics half sung, half spoken. If this i... Read more »| 03 May 2017 -
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Bonnie 'Prince' Billy – Best Troubador
If the Americana boom of the mid-to-late 2000s can be traced back to anything, it's arguably the death of Johnny Cash in 2003. There was something about the ... Read more »| 03 May 2017 -
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Afghan Whigs – In Spades
Afghan Whigs' latest offering In Spades is just the kind of music you’d expect Greg Dulli and the boys to be producing in 2017, proving the o... Read more »| 03 May 2017