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There can be moments as you are listening to ‘Intergalactic Warp Terminal 222’, Lionmilk’s absorbing new album on Leaving Records, when you feel like an intruder, sneaking into the musician’s back room in LA as he sketches and explores. After all Moki Kawaguchi (aka Lionmilk) admits that his music is a singular pursuit, an investigation …

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The vinylist in me hates to admit it but some music just needs to be preserved on CD and this piece adds weight to that proposal. Flowing through a continuous thirty minutes ACLOD, the anticipated collaborative project from Loren Chasse and Juho Toivonen (available now from the venerable Hivemind) declines any interruption from and A …

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Now here is some serious news. When two pace setting labels, Johannesburg’s Mushroom Hour Half Hour and Chicago’s International Anthem combine their intent and purpose to put out a joint release then you know something seismic is brewing. Then add in the news that this first collaborative despatch on 5th May will be the new …

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Creativity and adversity often seem to dance together and the making of ‘Everis’, the upcoming album from Tokyo musician Yasuhiko Fukuzono (AKA aus), more than reinforces this notion. When his home was burgled the loss of a wealth of archive and work in progress forced Fukuzono to re-constitute the developing ideas for his next work …

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That seasoned purveyor of the short burst, lo-fi pop song Scott Lavene has just announced a new single ‘Waitrose Has Run Out Of Lobsters’, out on 7th March via London’s Nothing Fancy. The follow up to last year’s fine family homage ‘Prettiest Peach’, this supermarket name dropper once again crackles with Lavene’s sardonic wit and …

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Riding the upward surge of new Brazilian pop comes Felipe Puperi (a.k.a Tagua Tagua) with solo album two, Tanto, available now via those global dance aficionados Wonderwheel Recordings. Acclaimed in his home country for some sharp production work and fronting the spacey alt-rockers Wannabe Jalva, his solo debut, 2019’s Inteiro Metade, turned the spotlight on …

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Now here are two musicians stepping out from the world of sessions and band membership to spotlight their own soundscape. Basile Petite’s past associations include Earl Thomas and Todd Sharpville while Drew Wynen currently plays with Crystal Fighters and Ellie Goulding, but it’s their music made as a partnership that is beginning to rustle up …

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You’ve got to be curious about Alice, the off-kilter Genevan trio formed by mother/ daughter/visual artist pairing Yvonne and Lisa Harder with their friend, graphic novelist Sarah Andre. Self-styled as a DIY micro chorale, their three voices and second hand keyboards conjure up songs that sneak way beyond any Occitan/French folky starting point. For sure …

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It’s staggering to think that Birmingham’s Supersonic Festival returns this year for its 20th inspirational iteration. No wonder it’s been called ‘The Mother of British underground festivals’. Here is an event of significance dedicated to championing those sonic explorers who occupy the outer fringes of noise, rock and experimentation. Expertly curated, proudly inclusive and defiantly …

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Behind a seminal scene there’s often a super producer, a sound shifter who gets the credit listing but sometimes not the credit. Now Soundway Records are set to introduce another member of this illusive club, Nkono Teles, keyboardist and arranger, a man at the epicentre of Nigeria’s electro pop explosion in the eighties. On 24th …

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