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The Amazing Snakeheads – Amphetamine Ballads
Those unfamiliar with Glasgow's The Amazing Snakeheads might presume this album is the sound of a band going back to basics; there's drums, bass, guitar, voc... Read more »| 02 Apr 2014 -
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Loops Haunt – Exits
The full-length debut of Scotland's Scott Douglas Gordon combines carefully treated field recordings, spectral synth work, musique concrete and questing, exp... Read more »| 01 Apr 2014 -
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PUP – PUP
Punk is pessimistic; it languishes in its own brash, self-deprecating defeatism. It’s no surprise then that Toronto-based four-piece PUP named themselv... Read more »| 01 Apr 2014 -
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SOHN – Tremors
Having nabbed a 4AD signing off the back of his first EP The Wheel, the now-Vienna-based British (and former Trouble Over Tokyo) producer Toph Taylor –... Read more »| 31 Mar 2014 -
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Randolph's Leap – Clumsy Knot
For those not already familiar with Randolph’s Leap, the lyric “living like a hermit / hermit the frog” could serve as a kind of acid test.... Read more »| 31 Mar 2014 -
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EMA – The Future's Void
Erika M Anderson’s Past Life Martyred Saints was an explosive, unsettling debut, a day-glo riot of sputtering confessional and expression... Read more »| 31 Mar 2014
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Stumbleine ft. Violet Skies – Dissolver
Stumbleine's production is undeniably more deep and beautiful than ever on this full-length collaboration with Violet Skies, not least in the way he treats t... Read more »| 31 Mar 2014 -
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Teebs – E s t a r a
Teebs' new album is at once definitively a product of the LA beat scene, and evidence of his capacity to grow beyond that scene's far-reaching, experimental ... Read more »| 27 Mar 2014 -
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The Cosmic Dead – Easterfaust
Glasgow's The Cosmic Dead are the real deal, and have been trading in the kind of tweaked-out, acid-drenched, sprawling riffage so currently in vogue for fou... Read more »| 27 Mar 2014 -
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Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks – Enter The Slasher House
While his Animal Collective wing-man Panda Bear’s songs are otherworldly and angelic, Avey Tare (né Dave Portner) frequently occupies the other ... Read more »| 27 Mar 2014 -
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The Body – I Shall Die Here
The Haxan Cloak spent months processing The Body's urgent, howled vocals and feral blasts of shredded guitar noise, transfiguring them into the dense and opp... Read more »| 27 Mar 2014 -
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Cloud Nothings – Here and Nowhere Else
“I’m moving forward while I keep the past around me,” rasps 23-year-old Dylan Baldi on Pattern Walks, the seven-minute earth-scorcher from ... Read more »| 27 Mar 2014 -
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King of the Mountains – Zoetrope
While the term is often deployed as a smokescreen when bickering bands part ways, genuine "musical differences" can be invigorating, yoking oppositional tast... Read more »| 27 Mar 2014 -
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Fatherson – I Am An Island
Orbiting the Scottish music scene for a few years, collecting a string of support slots (including Frightened Rabbit and Idlewild) charming Kilmarnock indie ... Read more »| 27 Mar 2014 -
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School of Language – Old Fears
Indie pop renaissance man David Brewis takes time out from the day job to return to School of Language. Actually, make that day jobs – his role as... Read more »| 27 Mar 2014