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Kissy Sell Out - Youth
These days it seems like anyone involved in a vaguely successful indie band can supplement their income by doing “DJ sets.” What’s more unu... Read more »| 15 Jun 2009 -
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Magnetic Morning - A.M.
The result of a creative mind-meld between Adam Franklin (Swervedriver) and Sam Fogarino (Interpol), Magnetic Morning’s debut arrives with a whisper wh... Read more »| 11 Jun 2009 -
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Goes Cube - Another Day Has Passed
This thunderous three-piece from NYC are keen to play up their lack of concern for image, industry parties and becoming players on the Big Apple scene. True ... Read more »| 09 Jun 2009 -
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Laroca - Valley of the Bears
Laroca claim to make music like nothing you’ve heard before, which isn’t strictly true. A more accurate claim would be that they make music like ... Read more »| 09 Jun 2009 -
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John Paul Keith & The One Four Fives - Spills and Thrills
John Paul Keith & The One Four Fives are a psychedelic garage-rock band masquerading as Memphis country-blues. Despite their own insistence that they're ... Read more »| 05 Jun 2009 -
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Sunset Rubdown - Dragonslayer
Sunset Rubdown’s latest LP is pertinently inscribed. The indie-rock psalms of Spencer Krug have long rested on a mythological mantel, but the Montreal ... Read more »| 04 Jun 2009
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We Were Promised Jetpacks - These Four Walls
We Were Promised Jetpacks couldn’t have timed it better. In the post-breakthrough hiatus of Frightened Rabbit and The Twilight Sad, indie aficionados h... Read more »| 04 Jun 2009 -
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Various Artists - Johnny Cash Remixed
Before you recoil in horror at a posthumous Johnny Cash record with the word ‘remix’ attached, it’s worth remembering that an unlikely coll... Read more »| 03 Jun 2009 -
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Freeland - Cope™
Freeland is the live arm of Adam Freeland, a DJ who was at the forefront of the late 90s ‘nu-skool breaks’ scene. If more people had followed his... Read more »| 03 Jun 2009 -
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Various Artists - Causes 2
Causes 2, the second in Waxploitation Records' charitable series, balances musical quality with worthy causes, making it worth your money for all the right reasons. Read more »| 03 Jun 2009 -
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Sonic Youth - The Eternal
Sonic Youth's greatest album is always whichever one you heard first - unless that was NYC Ghosts & Flowers (you poor thing). The band's famous experimen... Read more »| 02 Jun 2009 -
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Patrick Wolf - The Bachelor
An album ornamented in the existential backdrop of perdition, between Arcadia and Abaddon, The Bachelor veers between notions of armageddic chaos and the tra... Read more »| 02 Jun 2009 -
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James Blackshaw - The Glass Bead Game
James Blackshaw made his name with his prodigious talent on the twelve-string guitar, but eighth album The Glass Bead Game suggests that dexterous fingerpick... Read more »| 02 Jun 2009 -
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Broken Records - Until The Earth Begins To Part
Since Broken Records first emerged in Edinburgh in 2007, Scottish music fans have awaited their debut album with huge anticipation. The Skinny has featured or positively reviewed them several times, but does their debut deliver? Ally Brown places Until the Earth Begins to Part under the microscope. Read more »| 01 Jun 2009 -
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Astrid Williamson - Here Come The Vikings
Astrid Williamson branches out into new textures and timbres. Read more »| 01 Jun 2009