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AlbumsEMA – 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 -
AlbumsTeebs – 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 -
AlbumsThe 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 -
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The Afghan Whigs – Do to the Beast
From their rough-hewn beginnings with Big Top Halloween to the enduring elegance of 1965, each Afghan Whigs album somehow arrived with the air of a moment th... Read more »| 26 Mar 2014 -
AlbumsHoly Mountain – Ancient Astronauts
Glasgow-based hard rock trio Holy Mountain turn the psych-factor up to eleven on their latest release; there's a noticeably extended sense of scope on this f... Read more »| 26 Mar 2014 -
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OFF! – Wasted Years
Some aspects of life are inevitable. Politicians will break their promises, British summertime offers more shades of grey than literary-pretentious trashporn... Read more »| 26 Mar 2014 -
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Evil Blizzard – The Dangers of Evil Blizzard
Menacing vibes engulf the soul on the maliciously titled debut from this UK-based, Mark E. Smith-approved experimental quintet. The quadruple bass-assault is... Read more »| 26 Mar 2014 -
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Thomas Truax – Trolls, Girls and Lullabies
Thomas Truax first performed the music of Trolls, Girls & Lullabies last September. Rather dramatically, he did so from the confines of a metal container... Read more »| 26 Mar 2014