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AlbumsShearwater – Jet Plane and Oxbow
Back in 2008, with breakthrough Rook newly hatched and attracting fresh interest, Shearwater were invited to open a handful of dates on Coldplay’s... Read more »| 06 Jan 2016 -
AlbumsThe Besnard Lakes – A Coliseum Complex Museum
If you like giant orbs, the great outdoors, hanging out in museums and being told creepy, candle-lit stories of strange beasts and ghostly happenings, you&rs... Read more »| 06 Jan 2016 -
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Songs For Walter – Songs For Walter
After years of gracing the various backstreet and basement stages of his hometown, Manchester's Laurie Hulme finally releases his debut album. A hotch-potch ... Read more »| 06 Jan 2016 -
AlbumsMystery Jets – Curve of the Earth
Those firing into Curve of the Earth expecting the same twinkly-eyed, danceable indie-pop as their seminal debut Making Dens (some ten years later, would you... Read more »| 05 Jan 2016 -
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Howes – 3.5 Degrees
Delicate, sparse, occasionally transmogrifying; the debut album from Manchester-based musician John Howes is both back-lit and fugue-like, riffing upon solit... Read more »| 05 Jan 2016 -
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Then Thickens – Colic
There’s plenty of drugs and death on Then Thickens’ second album, and it’s soaked in the damage done by both. My Sunday finds Jon-Lee ... Read more »| 02 Jan 2016
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AlbumsDe Rosa – Weem
Though they announced their reunion back in 2012, the release of Weem bookends a hiatus of almost seven years for Bellshill quintet De Rosa. Now a trio in th... Read more »| 02 Jan 2016 -
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Hinds – Leave Me Alone
What a year Hinds had. 2015 saw the Madrid garage-rockers explode onto the international scene, scooping up fancy festival slots with tracks like Bamboo, and... Read more »| 31 Dec 2015 -
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Guadalupe Plata – Guadalupe Plata
The kind of record that leaves you feeling you need a bath, Guadalupe Plata is beyond dirty. A scuzzed-up, howlaround, frenzied fusing of blues forms and pun... Read more »| 30 Dec 2015 -
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Pete Astor – Spilt Milk
Following last year’s dabblings in kraut-out dubtronica with Ellis Island Sound, Pete Astor returns to what he does best: serenading us with simple, we... Read more »| 30 Dec 2015 -
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Beans on Toast – Rolling Up the Hill
As ever, Beans on Toast, AKA Jay McAllister, serves up his homespun, ramshackle folk with a side order of spiked, stick-it-to-the-man polemic. Words come at ... Read more »| 03 Dec 2015 -
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Aucan – Stelle Fisse
Far from the shy retiring geeks of electro stereotype, Italian trio Aucan have toured incessantly over the last few years, playing over 300 shows supporting ... Read more »| 03 Dec 2015 -
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Hanne Kolstø – While We Still Have Light
Hanne Kolstø's latest boasts a cracking USP: While We Still Have Light is the Norwegian's fifth album in five years. In an age where artists routinely... Read more »| 01 Dec 2015 -
AlbumsSunturns – Christmas I & II
Disliking a Christmas album is like admitting the John Lewis advert didn’t make you cry, or that you secretly think eggnog is vile. But, happily, this ... Read more »| 01 Dec 2015 -
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The Brian Setzer Orchestra – Rockin' Rudolph
This is more like it. As a multitude of half-cocked attempts at festive frivolity pay more attention to the cash till than genuine good cheer, the rockabilly... Read more »| 01 Dec 2015