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ALBUM REVIEW: The Twilite Tone – ‘The Clearing’: crisp future electro breaks

If you were ever seduced by Mo’Wax when it was truly great, this is totally the album for you. Casting references towards multifarious Black musics, all laced up with deep thought and intelligence, it has breaks that get deep under your skin. Irresistible.

ALBUM REVIEW: Andy Bell – ‘The View From Halfway Down’: superb psych-pop solo set

The View From Halfway Down is an eclectic and heady mix of psych, folk, tronica, baggy looseness and more - and nary puts a foot wrong. An absolutely excellent solo set

NEWS: Oneohtrix Point Never announces October album; hear the prelude suite

DANIEL LOPATIN, the boundary-pushing New York producer behind the Oneohtrix Point Never moniker, has announced a new album with Bridget Riley-style eye-dazzling cover art – and equally potent and bewitching…

SEE: The beautiful visuals for Ólafur Arnalds’ ‘Woven Song’

ÓLAFUR ARNALDS is preparing for his new album, some kind of peace, to hit turntables across the world on November 6th; and he’s followed the beautiful noir of previous single-track…

TRACK: Machinedrum feat. Father – ‘Spin Blocks’: glimmering lyrical flow ahead of the new album

MACHINEDRUM, the Ninja Tune artist who delights in pulling hiphop, electro, R’n’B, grime and other such musics into curious new shapes, is releasing his first album in four years and…

SEE: Molly Millions – ‘Ketamine Jass’: conceptual future dixieland protests drug laws

COMING at us outta Berlin wrapped in an enigma, but toting a very clear message of the personal-political, Molly Millions, the Berlin-based electronic producer, has shared the video for “Ketamine…

TRACK: Alex Jayne – ‘Clouds’: acoustic pop details the moment you notice it’s all changed

ALEX JAYNE, the London songwriter who we last heard of coolly observing the world from a late-night taxi on “Backseat”, has returned with a new single, the intelligent pure pop…

TRACK: Felid – ‘Take It Off’: a steamy pop grind

LEAVING the shores of cool electropop duo Mauwe to strike out on his own, Bristol-based, South African-born singer, songwriter and producer Felid (pronounced with a long ‘e’) has unveiled the steamy grooves…

TRACK: The Native – ‘Break Away’: South West indie risers’ second laments Brexit

PLYMOUTH’S The Native are on an upward curve: they’ve been building a real reputation down in the South West, getting themselves a real fanbase and a name as purveyors of…

SEE: The video for Mountain Goats’ ‘Get Famous’, their first in five years

THE MOUNTAIN GOATS are primed and ready on the starting grid for the release of their new album, Getting Into Knives, on October 23rd; and for the first time in five years…

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