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AlbumsNed Collette & Wirewalker – 2
The second album from Ned Collette’s Wirewalker project, and the first since the Melbourne-born songwriter relocated to Berlin, subtly augments his ... Read more »| 07 Aug 2012 -
AlbumsDiesel Park West – Do Come In Excuse The Mess
Despite a string of impressive UK chart singles in the late eighties/early nineties, Diesel Park West remain banished to relative obscurity, which is odd ... Read more »| 06 Aug 2012 -
AlbumsDan Deacon – America
America by name, America by nature. Dan Deacon's follow-up to his 2009 career high Bromst is swathed in the big, bold and sometimes graceless chutzpah of the... Read more »| 02 Aug 2012 -
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Stealing Sheep – Into the Diamond Sun
If you've heard Stealing Sheep's single Shut Eye, you'd be forgiven for writing them off as an all-girl Fleet Foxes tribute act. Nothing wrong with that,... Read more »| 02 Aug 2012 -
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Nathan Fake – Steam Days
For an artist whose first album cradled one of techno’s most evocative slow-burners to date, anything that follows is always going to be held up in c... Read more »| 02 Aug 2012 -
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Franz Nicolay – Do The Struggle
Anyone who ever saw him play with The Hold Steady would never have doubted whether Franz Nicolay had the cojones to be a good frontman. And so it has trans... Read more »| 02 Aug 2012
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Toots & The Maytals – Unplugged on Strawberry Hill
As one of the most influential and renowned reggae outfits of all time, Toots and The Maytals’ work will be familiar to anyone with a passing interes... Read more »| 01 Aug 2012 -
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Yeasayer – Fragrant World
Yeasayer, that most postmodern of American bands, can never be trusted to stay in one place for very long. From first to second album, their previously tri... Read more »| 01 Aug 2012 -
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Six Organs of Admittance – Ascent
Adopting the maxim ‘if you’ve got it, flaunt it,’ Six Organs of Admittance’s Ben Chasny opens his latest album with a big, bold guit... Read more »| 01 Aug 2012 -
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Paul Vickers and Friends – Nest of Knickers
Like the shows at which it will be sold, Paul Vickers’ latest album offers a lot of variety. Previously-unreleased Dawn of the Replicants tracks si... Read more »| 01 Aug 2012 -
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Toddla T – Watch Me Dance: Agitated by Ross Orton & Pipes
Orton & Pipes are legendary figures on the Sheffield soundsystem circuit, and this remix project sees them deconstruct the populist ragga-meets-R'n'B-mee... Read more »| 01 Aug 2012 -
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Scott Kelly and the Road Home – The Forgiven Ghost in Me
Given the steady incorporation of folk elements into his main band's palette, as well as that of side project Blood and Time, Scott Kelly's solemn, apocaly... Read more »| 01 Aug 2012 -
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Urusen – This Is Where We Meet
Urusen have been gigging and recording for almost a decade now, never quite catching a wave of support big enough to bring them widespread recognition, but... Read more »| 01 Aug 2012 -
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The Unwinding Hours – Afterlives
With their self-titled debut as The Unwinding Hours, Craig Beaton and Iain Cook proved unequivocally that there was life after Aereogramme. Rarely does a b... Read more »| 31 Jul 2012 -
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Eugene McGuinness – The Invitation to the Voyage
From quirky, well-regarded debut to playing guitar in musical shrug Miles Kane’s backing band in just four short years: Eugene McGuinness hasn’... Read more »| 31 Jul 2012