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Albums▲AIMON – Flatliner
'Witch house' was never a particularly commercial proposition, so it is unsurprising that many artists are unwilling to be plastered with the term, or have d... Read more »| 26 Apr 2012 -
AlbumsJesus H. Foxx – Endless Knocking
Seven members comprise this leftfield Edinburgh indie outfit, who mingle strings, cornet, and glockenspiel with more orthodox instrumentation. Yet even th... Read more »| 26 Apr 2012 -
AlbumsIt Hugs Back – Laughing Party
As if It Hugs Back’s band name wasn’t misleadingly twee enough, Laughing Party’s title and colourful cover seem like a concerted effort to... Read more »| 26 Apr 2012 -
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Mothlite – Dark Age
Daniel O'Sullivan's acclaimed Ulver has a tendency to traverse a truly abstract path between the realms of shoegaze, metal and black ambient, while his col... Read more »| 26 Apr 2012 -
AlbumsLower Dens – Nootropics
Nootropics is named after a kind of drug which alters the brain's supply of neurochemicals in order to boost memory and intelligence; and right enough, it ... Read more »| 24 Apr 2012 -
AlbumsGeoff Barrow & Ben Salisbury – DROKK: Music Inspired By Mega-City One
Geoff Barrow of Portishead and film score composer Ben Salisbury have created something truly original in DROKK, their soundtrack for Mega-City One, home o... Read more »| 20 Apr 2012
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Anathema – Weather Systems
Anathema's early contributions to doom metal are easy to disregard when they've been riding on the soft rock train with such grace for so long. If 2010's W... Read more »| 19 Apr 2012 -
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Ufomammut – Oro: Opus Primum
Ufomammut have been significant players in a well-populated heavy metal sect for some time now. Honourable disciples of sludge, these Italians are ever-dev... Read more »| 17 Apr 2012 -
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Cancer Bats – Dead Set on Living
Some fans may be pleased to know that the slow-burning artiness of Cancer Bats' 2010 offering Bears, Mayors, Scraps & Bones is dropped for a slicker, mor... Read more »| 17 Apr 2012 -
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Kassidy – One Man Army
It’s always easy to pick on a soft target. But, just why Kassidy seem to have provoked such vitriol in certain corners of the music community is perpl... Read more »| 13 Apr 2012 -
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North Atlantic Oscillation – Fog Electric
It's fitting that North Atlantic Oscillation’s second album, Fog Electric, was produced by Tony Doogan, best known for his production work for Mogwai... Read more »| 11 Apr 2012 -
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Graham Coxon – A+E
Created as a conscious response to the burn-out he experienced touring 2009’s brilliant and meticulously crafted The Spinning Top, A+E finds Coxon embr... Read more »| 11 Apr 2012 -
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James Ross – Chasing the Sun
This seven-movement suite from Caithness composer/pianist James Ross, initially commissioned for the Blas festival, retells a journey along the north coast... Read more »| 10 Apr 2012 -
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The Leg – An Eagle to Saturn
Rambunctious Edinburgh trio The Leg count Julian Cope among their fans, and indeed An Eagle to Saturn sounds in many ways like a throwback to the more eccen... Read more »| 10 Apr 2012 -
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Poliça – Give You The Ghost
Born from the sprawling indie-explosion Gayngs, duo Poliça have friends in high places, with their collaborative cohort Justin Vernon of Bon Iver fa... Read more »| 10 Apr 2012