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AlbumsMatthew E. White – Big Inner
As well as being the debut album from Richmond, Virginia’s Matthew E White, Big Inner is the vanguard release from Spacebomb, White’s S... Read more »| 04 Jan 2013 -
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Fat Goth – Stud
“I think you’ve got too much time on your hands,” deadpans Fraser Stewart at the conclusion of the magnificent Debbie’s Dirty Harry, ... Read more »| 04 Jan 2013 -
AlbumsEverything Everything – Arc
Everything Everything's mission statement is to make pop music that sounds like no one else – a mantra the Manchester-based band have regularly tr... Read more »| 04 Jan 2013 -
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Plantman – Whispering Trees
Close your eyes during Plantman’s debut album and you’ll be transported back to an era of pre-Britpop Indie. Given Matt Randall’s (AKA Plan... Read more »| 04 Jan 2013 -
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Falty DL – Hardcourage
New York's Drew Lustman, aka Falty DL, likes to mess with people's expectations. Influenced by house, garage, RnB and future bass, he never settles on one st... Read more »| 04 Jan 2013 -
AlbumsToro Y Moi – Anything in Return
The third LP from Chaz Bundick sees the producer’s lush, pop-oriented blend of house and hip-hop take a bold stride towards the mainstream, without s... Read more »| 03 Jan 2013
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AlbumsThe Pictish Trail – Secret Soundz Vol. 2
Many artists develop signature sounds; rarer is the musician who accrues several. Johnny Lynch is one of the few to do so successfully, with a palette as d... Read more »| 03 Jan 2013 -
AlbumsL. Pierre – The Island Come True
Aidan Moffat’s fourth LP as L. Pierre is perhaps the most boldly ambitious and abstract yet: eschewing the electronica which supplemented the field r... Read more »| 03 Jan 2013 -
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Yo La Tengo – Fade
It must be a relief to indie obscurists and what few record shop assistants remain that Hoboken trio Yo La Tengo have remained so prolific and consistent ove... Read more »| 03 Jan 2013 -
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Lazy Habits – Lazy Habits
Lazy Habits are one of those bands that don't need radio play, press coverage or internet hype to build their career – which isn't to say that their su... Read more »| 03 Jan 2013 -
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Your Move, Raincloud – This is What's Left Over From Nothing That's Happened
Your Move, Raincloud – the project of 28-year-old Samuel Francis Cain – practise a kind of fragile, wilfully sentimental indie, which aims at th... Read more »| 03 Jan 2013 -
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Pere Ubu – Lady From Shanghai
Few bands can claim the sort of hard-earned respect accorded to Pere Ubu. The Fall are one example that spring to mind; and as with that outfit, a new LP f... Read more »| 02 Jan 2013 -
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Broadcast – Berberian Sound Studio
Broadcast's soundtrack for the critically-acclaimed film Berberian Sound Studio was created by James Cargill and Trish Keenan before the latter's untimely de... Read more »| 18 Dec 2012 -
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Haftor Medbøe & Anneke Kampman – Places & Spaces
Anneke Kampman is the songwriter behind Conquering Animal Sound, Haftor Medbøe is a celebrated jazz composer and player with his own band. This collab... Read more »| 17 Dec 2012 -
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Ela Orleans – Tumult In Clouds
Born in Poland, and having lived across the world, including some years spent in the New York underground / alternative music scene, singer-songwriter Ela Or... Read more »| 17 Dec 2012