New Music: Tangerine – Nothing Better
Back in late August we were helped into autumnal slumber by the gentle swells of “Feel This Way”. Seattle, Washington’s Tangerine are back in action this month with a new…
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Nick Pett
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Video: Just Lions – Paper Cage
Today I have been enjoying the new video for “Paper Cage” by backseatmafia.com faves’ Just Lions’. You can follow an increasingly threatened lead singer Chandler Strutz being chased through Oregon City…
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Joan As Police Woman – The Classic
Sometimes it does what it says on the tin – but elsewhere track sequencing and the mix mean that this album ultimately frustrates. Joan Wasser is not alone as an…
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Track of the Day: Pool – Harm
Take this as an early spring shot in the arm. Your day needs Pool. Super-tight, crisp disco/funk that melds the snap and crackle of Electric Six’s camper moments, and the arty…
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Video: Ratking featuring King Krule – So Sick Stories
A slower slice of troubling hip-hop, following the paranoid claustrophobia of “100”. NYC’s new rap heroes mix it up with London’s King Krule. The video for “So Sick Stories” puts…
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Video: Maids – Bandits
Turns out that this is exactly what I needed this Thursday night: gentle, wistful electro-pop, and an aqua-aerobics video to boot. Midwest Disco indeed. Des Moines, Iowa is something of…
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Video: Le1f – Boom
Openly gay rappers are as rare as openly gay footballers and both fields are all the poorer for the forces that preserve their prejudices. New Yorker, Le1f, is one artist and…
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Track: Roddy Frame – Forty days of fame, plus new album news
Scottish songsmith Roddy Frame is back in the album business, with a new LP set for release in May. Three records on from Aztec Camera’s last, Frestonia in 1995, “Seven…
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New Music: No Bra – Candy
I find it highly unlikely that I’ll hear another album like this in 2014. I was going to say ‘you’ instead of ‘I’ but what do I know about what’s…
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Album Review: Solander – Monochromatic Memories
Beautiful, tender heart-puncturing songs of loss, desperation, and deconstruction by love. Bravo. “Monochromatic Memories” is a tight record, atmospherically and lyrically coherent and consistent. In fact the only real issue…
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