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AlbumsUniversal Thee – All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace
If it’s become a cliché that Scotland – a dreich outcrop sitting atop Western Europe like a soggy top hat – understands the virtues ... Read more »| 03 Feb 2016 -
AlbumsAnimal Collective – Painting With
The Baltimore avant-garde return with their most focused LP in years Read more »| 03 Feb 2016 -
AlbumsTeen – Love Yes
Its sharp pop sensibilities could fool you into thinking it's not quite as weird as it is, but don’t be tricked: Love Yes is away with the fairie... Read more »| 03 Feb 2016 -
AlbumsLily & Madeleine – Keep It Together
Lily & Madeleine sang 'complacency is the currency/good enough is enough for me' on their 2014 release Fumes. And while their output at such a young age ... Read more »| 03 Feb 2016 -
AlbumsSarah Neufeld – The Ridge
Sarah Neufeld’s previous outing, Never Were The Way She Was, provided a fascinating conversation between the fluid majesty of her violin and the virtuo... Read more »| 03 Feb 2016 -
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The Cave Singers – Banshee
The Seattle folk rockers' crowdfunded LP is staid, safe and destined to live in the background. Read more »| 03 Feb 2016
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El Guincho – Hiperasia
Album número tres from astro-exotica producer Pablo Díaz-Reixa plays like a radio shuffling through stations. Hiperasia – named after a s... Read more »| 03 Feb 2016 -
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Amy Duncan – Undercurrents
Amy Duncan’s fifth studio album is as gentle, elegant and lovely as any believer in softly orchestrated folk could want. The multi-instrumentalist... Read more »| 02 Feb 2016 -
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So Pitted – Neo
Melodies are all well and good, but they’ll only get you so far. Sometimes all you wanna hear is something that’ll crush you into the ground. Ste... Read more »| 02 Feb 2016 -
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New Albums This Week: Jesu / Sun Kil Moon + more
The week's best new records from Jesu / Sun Kil Moon, Nevermen & MONEY Read more »| 29 Jan 2016 -
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Nap Eyes – Thought Rock Fish Scale
Location can be an underappreciated facet in rock music. Take Nap Eyes’ second long player, for instance; recorded in a living room in smalltown Nova S... Read more »| 28 Jan 2016 -
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Wild Nothing – Life Of Pause
Life of Synth may have been a more apt title for Wild Nothing’s third record, cultivated as it is around layers of woozy electronic timbres. Nowhere is... Read more »| 28 Jan 2016 -
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Flowers – Everybody's Dying to Meet You
It takes just under 30 seconds for Flowers’ second album Everybody’s Dying to Meet You to vault its promising but wan predecessor (2014’s D... Read more »| 28 Jan 2016 -
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Rangda – The Heretic's Bargain
There’s a storm brewing. Clouds writhe and branches flail as it grows bigger and bigger, the sky turning darker by the minute, until everything suddenl... Read more »| 28 Jan 2016 -
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The Wave Pictures – A Season in Hull
So, how did you celebrate your last birthday? Pub, was it? Dinner with friends perhaps? Sigh – how unproductive. You want to take a leaf out of th... Read more »| 27 Jan 2016