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AlbumsThe Haxan Cloak – Excavation
The Haxan Cloak's self-titled 2011 album on Aurora Borealis brought Bobby Krlic, aka The Haxan Cloak, to the attention of the ultra-hip and experimental Tri ... Read more »| 02 Apr 2013 -
AlbumsAidan Baker – Already Drowning
Those coming to Already Drowning via an interest in Aidan Baker’s work with ambient drone duo Nadja be warned: here be an altogether gentler ... Read more »| 02 Apr 2013 -
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The OK Social Club – Nothing In Common
Possibly not since The View’s debut has a Scottish band mined youthful, boozy nostalgia quite as doggedly as Edinburgh’s The OK Social Club. &ldq... Read more »| 01 Apr 2013 -
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Wild Honey – Big Flash
The second LP from Madrid’s Wild Honey – essentially the work of multi-instrumentalist Guillermo Farré – is an unashamedly kitschy, ... Read more »| 01 Apr 2013 -
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The Flaming Lips – The Terror
Billed as The Lips 'bleak, disturbing' record (with suitably ominous title to match), the reality is that this, their thirteenth studio album, whil... Read more »| 29 Mar 2013 -
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Fol Chen – The False Alarms
In the four years of their existence, LA’s Fol Chen have held a month-long residency at the city’s Echo venue, organised collaborative workshops ... Read more »| 29 Mar 2013
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AlbumsBonobo – The North Borders
The fifth LP from Brighton’s Bonobo (aka Simon Green) opens in understated style, as Grey Reverend’s brooding vocals overlay the gently shimmerin... Read more »| 29 Mar 2013 -
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Homework – 13 Towers
Live, this Edinburgh-based electro-rock quartet have (in these pages) been compared to LCD Soundsystem, although on record that comparison somewhat overstate... Read more »| 29 Mar 2013 -
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Lubomyr Melnyk – Corollaries
Complex, sparse and beguiling, the new album by celebrated avant garde neo-classical composer Lubomyr Melnyk is a delight from start to finish. Melnyk's tech... Read more »| 29 Mar 2013 -
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Life Coach – Alphawaves
Originally conceived as a solo outlet for Trans Am founder Phil Manley’s homage to late krautrock visionary Conny Plank, this second album as Life Coac... Read more »| 28 Mar 2013 -
AlbumsThe Knife – Shaking the Habitual
Accompanied by a manifesto expressing distaste for the 'already imagined', siblings Karin Dreijer Andersson and Olof Dreijer's first record as The Knife in s... Read more »| 28 Mar 2013 -
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Uncle Acid & the Deadbeats – Mind Control
Mt. Abraxis, the cinematic opener from Uncle Acid & the Deadbeats' second full-length, starts out with sorrowful guitar licks and steadily paced cymbal c... Read more »| 28 Mar 2013 -
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Louie – Lost On Hope Street
The front man of incendiary live hip-hop band Hector Bizerk steps out from the shadows with an intensely personal, viscerally political album of hip-hop trac... Read more »| 28 Mar 2013 -
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Wiley – The Ascent
Another Wiley album, another threat from perhaps the last surviving well-known grime rapper with any credibility left to retire – leaving us to the ten... Read more »| 28 Mar 2013 -
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Vondelpark – Seabed
When you're stuck in the spaces in-between – on journeys home at uncomfortable dawns, in cold living rooms at the wrong end of the morning – you'... Read more »| 27 Mar 2013