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AlbumsThe Acid – Liminal
Eleven kinds of loneliness, wrote Yates; here’s eleven tracks of it. Appropriately named threesome The Acid (Ry X, Steve Nalepa, and Adam Freeland) ser... Read more »| 26 May 2014 -
AlbumsEmma Ruth Rundle – Some Heavy Ocean
In a similar vein to label-mate Chelsea Wolfe, there's a certain desolation and sparseness to Emma Ruth Rundle's sound that's both mysterious and alluring. T... Read more »| 26 May 2014 -
AlbumsJerry David DeCicca – Understanding Land
The Black Swans are no more, their fifth and final album, 2012’s Occasion For Song, a frank meditation on the loss of band member Noel Sayre. Sayre was... Read more »| 26 May 2014 -
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The Hazey Janes – Language of Faint Theory
For their fourth album, Dundee’s The Hazey Janes returned to El Puerto De Santa Maria – the small Andalusian city where they’d recorded deb... Read more »| 26 May 2014 -
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Sleep Party People – Floating
Somnambulant dreampop project Sleep Party People is the tincture of one Brian Batz, a rabbit-masked Dane with a knack for crafting layered, shoegaze lullabye... Read more »| 26 May 2014 -
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Hamell On Trial – The Happiest Man In The World
Difficult to know what to make of Ed Hamell. He’s an intelligent and articulate singer-songwriter, at something of a rarely-considered midpoint between... Read more »| 24 May 2014
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AlbumsPlaid – Reachy Prints
Returning in 2011 with the somewhat underwhelming Scintilli, Plaid have kept their hand in, but Reachy Prints sees them return with gusto to the ambitious sonic realms of their golden age, and deliver an album that almost ranks with their best Read more »| 19 May 2014 -
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WIFE – What's Between
Perhaps the most accessible release so far from the unimpeachable Tri-Angle label, WIFE offers up his full-length debut, a gleaming, polished collection of g... Read more »| 15 May 2014 -
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Martha – Courting Strong
"Now I may be a reject / But to tell the truth, you’re scarier than a prefect." With every dimwit commentator lauding the recent past as some hazy utop... Read more »| 14 May 2014 -
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Alias – Pitch Black Prism
Heralding a switch from his MPC-based productions to the more synthetic sounds of the Native Instruments Machine, there is a certain linearity to the drum pr... Read more »| 14 May 2014 -
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Watter – This World
We never really knew Slint. New documentary Breadcrumb Trail goes some way to giving greater context to their brief history, suggesting that drummer Britt Wa... Read more »| 14 May 2014 -
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Battery Face – what's what stuff
It's remarkable that the long player concept remains pretty much the same in 2014 as it was in 1964. While almost every other pillar of the music industry ha... Read more »| 13 May 2014 -
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Bird – My Fear and Me
Bird fashion mood so deftly, securing their soundscapes to their own distinct and fascinating rhythm: bass and drums (toms trump snare) propel the songs. Ade... Read more »| 07 May 2014 -
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Mr. Scruff – Friendly Bacteria
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Kate Tempest – Everybody Down
Spoken word artist Kate Tempest's debut is undoubtedly impressive. The storytelling of Marshall Law and Lonely Daze – gritty, intimate and co... Read more »| 06 May 2014