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Shigeto – The New Monday
It’s fitting that Zachary Saginaw, better known as producer Shigeto, opens his new album with Detroit Part II. In its free-flowing saxophone wrapped ar... Read more »| Updated about 7 years ago -
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Lanterns On The Lake – Beings
Beyond the success of 2013's Until the Colours Run, Newcastle's Lanterns On The Lake continue to maintain their commitment to producing high quality sou... Read more »| Updated almost 9 years ago -
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Matt Berry – Music for Insomniacs
On screen, Matt Berry is all about that voice: a sonorous, knee-trembling baritone that garlands every utterance in comic grandiloquence. Across hi... Read more »| Updated over 10 years ago -
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Mano Le Tough – Changing Days
Born near Dublin, Niall Mannion aka Mano Le Tough moved to Berlin some time before 2009, and quietly began to revolutionise the template of house music with ... Read more »| Updated over 11 years ago -
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Haiku Salut – Etch and Etch Deep
Half-dreams – the hypnagogic state between wakefulness and sleeping. That’s where Haiku Salut sneak up on you, playing on your fragile consciousn... Read more »| Updated over 9 years ago -
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MØ – No Mythologies To Follow
Following up her feisty 2013 EP Bikini Daze, Danish pop vixen Karen Marie Ørsted – as MØ – unveils her debut No Mythologies To Foll... Read more »| Updated over 10 years ago -
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Kelela – Take Me Apart
The last thing you could accuse Kelela of is rushing. Her debut mixtape, 2013’s Cut 4 Me, was four years in the making and since then, the only other m... Read more »| Updated about 7 years ago -
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Oh Sees – Orc
How do you envision John Dwyer when he’s hard at work? Sweat-soaked punk dude, unable to stop the flow of frazzled psych masterpieces? Uber-focused son... Read more »| Updated about 7 years ago -
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Los Campesinos! – Sick Scenes
Sick Scenes, the sixth Los Campesinos! record and their first since 2013’s excellent No Blues, gives the impression that they've been itching to come b... Read more »| Updated over 7 years ago -
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My Morning Jacket – The Waterfall
On The Waterfall, Jim James sounds like a man at ease. With his 2013 solo album put to bed, My Morning Jacket’s first record in four years returns the ... Read more »| Updated over 9 years ago -
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Arcade Fire – Everything Now
Whether you'd like to admit it or not, we won't get another record like Funeral in our lifetime, especially not from that record's composers, Arcade Fir... Read more »| Updated about 7 years ago -
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Steve Mason – Meet The Humans
Steve Mason's third solo album under his own name finds the erstwhile Fifer embracing a folktronica style familiar from those Beta Band days. There's a move ... Read more »| Updated over 8 years ago -
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Charlotte OC – Careless People
In Charlotte OC’s world, every line has a shadow; 'We keep on running like a river! Riveeeer.' The pop-minded theatricality of her debut album Careless... Read more »| Updated over 7 years ago -
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Agnes Obel – Citizen of Glass
Agnes Obel’s third album finds her a long way away from the sweet Tori Amos-style pop that adorned her first album, Philharmonics. Building on the mor... Read more »| Updated almost 8 years ago -
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Letherette – Last Night on the Planet
Following up 2013’s eponymous album with the dynamic Last Night on the Planet, Letherette amp up their signature style with a funkier approach, darting... Read more »| Updated almost 8 years ago -
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Soft Hair – Soft Hair
Good luck trying to pin down Soft Hair, the collaborative album between Connan Mockasin and Sam Eastgate, which exists on the same plane of reality as its cr... Read more »| Updated almost 8 years ago -
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sleepmakeswaves – in today already walks tomorrow
This is a monster. Previously unavailable in the UK, hats off to Monotreme Records for a timely re-release. If the Australian instrumental quartet’s 20... Read more »| Updated over 10 years ago -
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Pissed Jeans – Why Love Now
‘I used to play punk,’ sneers Matt Korvette, as though daring himself not to laugh scornfully. ‘Now I’m just singing the blues.&rsquo... Read more »| Updated over 7 years ago -
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CHVRCHES – The Bones Of What You Believe
CHVRCHES full-length debut is one of the most eagerly anticipated releases of 2013, partly due to the familiarity of such slices of perfect synth-pop as The ... Read more »| Updated about 11 years ago -
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Fat Goth – One Hundred Percent Suave
Fat Goth don't have immediate crossover appeal; their music is too heavy and takes too many sharp changes in direction that can leave the casual listener str... Read more »| Updated over 10 years ago -
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Jess Morgan – Edison Gloriette
Upon first hearing Jess Morgan back in 2013, this writer was totally won over by the quality of her storytelling and her spikey, claw-hammer guitar style. Sh... Read more »| Updated over 7 years ago -
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Autre Ne Veut – Age of Transparency
After his scrappy, hazy debut, pop experimentalist Autre Ne Veut – aka Arthur Ashin – struck critical gold with 2013’s Anxiety. Its singula... Read more »| Updated about 9 years ago -
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Oneohtrix Point Never – Garden of Delete
If 2013's R Plus Seven was a landscape of delicate synthwork and angelic choral sounds glossing over a murky atmosphere, then Garden of Delete flips the... Read more »| Updated almost 9 years ago -
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American Wrestlers – Goodbye Terrible Youth
What’s that old adage about it taking ten years to become an overnight success? It could very easily apply to Gary McClure, the Scottish frontman of Am... Read more »| Updated almost 8 years ago -
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Karen O & Danger Mouse – Lux Prima
The woozy, glamourous pop that colours much of Lux Prima is new territory for Karen O, who’s spent this decade in a state of flux. From her slightly aw... Read more »| Updated over 5 years ago -
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Wolf Alice – Visions of a Life
Wolf Alice have transformed since their 2013 single, Fluffy. The four-piece from North London have unfurled from their musical chrysalis, spreading each wing... Read more »| Updated about 7 years ago -
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Marnie – Strange Words and Weird Wars
Helen Marnie's second album is a pointed reminder that, given time to develop their identity, artists on sabbatical just might fashion an enriched output: a ... Read more »| Updated over 7 years ago -
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Husky Rescue – The Long Lost Friend: Special Edition
The fourth album from this Finnish folktronica project gets its first worldwide issue, following a domestic release back in 2013. This special edition comes ... Read more »| Updated over 9 years ago -
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Toro y Moi – Boo Boo
It was only a matter of time before Toro y Moi came full circle. What began as a chillwave project for multi-instrumentalist Chaz Bear (formerly Bundick) has... Read more »| Updated over 7 years ago -
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Broken Social Scene – Hug of Thunder
Comebacks are almost de rigeur in indie rock these days, but still, some seem less likely than others. When Toronto’s Broken Social Scene played the &l... Read more »| Updated over 7 years ago