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SEE: Teen Creeps release new single, ‘Seeing Shapes’, ahead of second album

“SEEING Shapes’ is the first single taken from Forever, the new album by Belgian indie rockers Teen Creeps, set for release on January 22nd, 2021 on [PIAS] Recordings. An ode…

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TRACK: Firestations – ‘Small Island’: Lost Map alt-poppers return

ALT-POPPERS Firestations return with their new single “Small Island”, the first instalment of a new multi-EP project entitled Automatic Tendencies; and their first new music on Lost Map since their…

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TRACK: Vera Hotsauce – ‘Ricochet’: railing against the wrongs

THE ARTIST’S name suggests that we’re in for a giggle to British ears, as it hints of something out of a 1960s’ Carry On film or a Frankie Howerd sketch.…

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Album Review: Horse Meat Disco – ‘Love And Dancing’

FROM their revered tenancy that began on New Year’s Day, 2004 at The Eagle in Vauxhall, DJs Luke Howard, Severino Panzetta, James Hillard and Jim Stanton – collectively known as Horse…

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TRACK: Emma Miller releases new track ‘Sail Away’ ahead of debut EP

AHEAD of the hotly anticipated release of her debut EP coming this November, Scottish folk singer Emma Miller has released the a taster in the shape of second track “Sail…

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EP: Suuns – Fiction

One thing about all this quarantining and distancing is that we’re being forced to find creative ways to do the things we’ve always done, and this is something that music…

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Album Review: SAD13 – Haunted Painting

To contrast Sadie Dupuis’ work as SAD13 with her work with Speedy Ortiz feels unfair, yet inevitable as they are essentially two different distillations of her own personality. The former…

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See: Korpiklaani release video for Powerwolf cover, ‘Sudenmorsian’

AFTER celebrating the release of their unique spruce-flavoured vodka with a live stream held at the Pyynikin Brewery, in Tampere, Finland, Korpiklaani have released a very special cover. Their new single ‘”Sudenmorsian” is their take on Powerwolf’s “Where…

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Album Review: Roisin Murphy – ‘Roisin Machine’

IN ANOTHER, more enlightened plane of existence, the world lauds Roisin Murphy as a famed cultural icon with a string of hit albums, maybe with a prime-time talk show, international…

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Album Review: Action Bronson – Only For Dolphins

At some point, someone must have told Action Bronson that words have multiple meanings. This isn’t something I know for sure, but you can intuit it from his lyrics. Keeping…

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