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AlbumsA Place to Bury Strangers – Worship
It's never pretty when good bands go off the boil but the drop off that A Place to Bury Strangers seem to have experienced since 2009's Exploding Head is pa... Read more »| 01 Jun 2012 -
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Star Wheel Press – Life Cycle of a Falling Bird
When a lead singer possesses such a distinctive burr, it’s often easy to overlook everything that sits behind it. Not so on Life Cycle of a Falling B... Read more »| 31 May 2012 -
AlbumsNecro Deathmort – The Colonial Script
Imperial, the opener to Necro Deathmort's third longplayer, seeks to bewilder and confuse with an array of scattered laptop beats before giving way to the bl... Read more »| 30 May 2012 -
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Volcano! – Piñata
Instantly appealing on the outside, but with treats at their core: the piñata not only provides a name for Volcano!’s third album, it’s a ... Read more »| 29 May 2012 -
AlbumsMetallic Taste of Blood – Metallic Taste of Blood
Metallic Taste of Blood are a multicultural collective of semi-familiar faces whose eponymous debut curiously fuses together elements of prog, dub, math-ro... Read more »| 29 May 2012 -
AlbumsThe Invisible – Rispah
The untimely death of front-man Dave Okumu's mother massively informs the making of Rispah (the title being his mother's first name) and lush meditations on ... Read more »| 29 May 2012
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The Lost Brothers – So Long John Fante
With their debut released way back in 2008, it seemed The Lost Brothers might have taken their moniker literally and gone AWOL. But they’ve been b... Read more »| 28 May 2012 -
AlbumsLaurel Halo – Quarantine
Laurel Halo's full-length debut is the darker, experimental twin of Grimes' Visions Read more »| 28 May 2012 -
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Mina Tindle – Taranta
With a stage name adapted from twist-laden, Michael Caine-starring thriller Sleuth, Mina Tindle (born Pauline de Lassus) seems keen to preserve a little myst... Read more »| 28 May 2012 -
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Dope Body – Natural History
This Baltimorean quartet alternate between a slurring, droney development of Albini-style math rock, all grinding bass, delayed vocals and brutally clear ... Read more »| 28 May 2012 -
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Ryat – Totem
A female solo artist who generates lush, complex electronic soundscapes, which ebb and flow between chamber-pop peaks and shuffling, syncopated glitchy be... Read more »| 23 May 2012 -
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UV PØP – No Songs Tomorrow
John Kevin White was one of the more obscure cult figures to emerge from the 80s post-punk / early electronic scene in 1980s Sheffield. His sometime-band, so... Read more »| 22 May 2012 -
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Nasty P – Story So Far
Story So Far by Nasty P is a cohesive, satisfying collection of hip-hop cuts aimed squarely at the dancefloor. Read more »| 10 May 2012 -
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King Tuff – King Tuff
Even if this brand of finely tuned garage rock is not entirely groundbreaking, and the infectious vocal hooks on each track are largely some variation on c... Read more »| 09 May 2012 -
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Cornershop – Urban Turban
Cornershop have been releasing records for more than 20 years but are still bizarrely viewed in some quarters as one-hit-wonders. It's an entirely undeserv... Read more »| 09 May 2012