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AlbumsLupen Crook – The Pros and Cons of Eating Out
For an act that has been in existence for just over five years, Lupen Crook have left a hefty trail of releases in their wake, with The Pros and Cons of Eati... Read more »| 05 Oct 2010 -
AlbumsKatzenjammer – Le Pop
Who are Katzenjammer? It’s a tougher question than you’d think: they’ve a German name, a French album title, a Balkan whirl of a lead singl... Read more »| 05 Oct 2010 -
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Detachments - Detachments
Anyone who watched the BBC's recent documentary Synth Britannia will know that around the early 1980s a group of unlikely heroes pioneered a minimalist, synt... Read more »| 04 Oct 2010 -
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John Legend & The Roots – Wake Up!
Few musicians seem to make overtly political records these days: the Iraq war moved few songwriters to sing out, and despite its catastrophic effects, there&... Read more »| 01 Oct 2010 -
AlbumsBroken Records – Let Me Come Home
With its own sense of self-importance, Broken Records debut album reached for the heavens but ended up leaving some listeners firmly grounded. At times secon... Read more »| 01 Oct 2010 -
AlbumsBelvedere Mountain Express – Cauldstane Slap
On Cauldstane Slap, Edinburgh’s Belvedere Mountain Express explore a strain of playful, nostalgic electronica overlaid with accordion and, on four of t... Read more »| 01 Oct 2010
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Fenech-Soler – Fenech-Soler
Fenech-Soler have been attracting moderate buzz for quite some time, with recent single Stop & Stare thus far their closest pitch for the mainstr... Read more »| 30 Sep 2010 -
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Ben Sollee and Daniel Martin Moore – Dear Companion
Beginning life as an EP of songs meant to bring attention to the environmental impact of mountain top removal mining in their home state of Kentucky, under t... Read more »| 30 Sep 2010 -
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Action Beat – Beatings
The conceptual maelstrom that is this ever-evolving noise collective from Bletchley in England has to be one of the standard-bearers for DIY ethics in the UK... Read more »| 30 Sep 2010 -
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Giant Sand – Blurry Blue Mountain
It’s been a common saying that most parents hope their progeny grow up to be more successful than they were. If that applies to godparents then Arizona... Read more »| 30 Sep 2010 -
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Easy Star All-Stars – Dubber Side of the Moon
Reimagining Pink Floyd's introspective prog masterpiece Dark Side of the Moon as a dub reggae album on 2003's Dub Side of the Moon, was in equal part... Read more »| 29 Sep 2010 -
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Wino – Adrift
As he approaches fifty, metal stalwart and doom-progenitor Scott ‘Wino’ Weinrich apparently fancies himself a singer-songwriter of the Cash/Dylan... Read more »| 29 Sep 2010 -
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Kurt Wagner & Cortney Tidwell Present Kort – Invariable Heartache
As musical partnerships go, Kurts and Cortneys go together less like a horse and carriage than a horse and a grunge Yoko prone to worrying Twitter-spasms. We... Read more »| 29 Sep 2010 -
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Squarepusher presents Shobaleader One – d'Demonstrator
Whether or not its highly dubious back-story is a smoke screen (allegedly Shobaleader One is a band formed by Tom Jenkinson together with a bunch of ... Read more »| 29 Sep 2010 -
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The Last Battle – Heart of the Land, Soul of the Sea
For a band of six, Edinburgh’s The Last Battle sport a frail, minimal sound on debut album Heart of the Land, Soul of the Sea, based almost entirely on... Read more »| 29 Sep 2010