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EP Review: The Nagging Doubts spread some icy post-punk joy in their shimmering EP ‘Autocalm’

Last year’s glorious double single release – ‘Berlin’ and ‘Marine’ – from The Nagging Doubts served notice of something very special. The Nagging Doubts have now delivered on this with…

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Album: Unflesh – Inhumation

Blackened melodic death metallers Unflesh have released their second full-length, ‘Inhumation’. The band partnered with artist Junki Sakuraba (Seven Spires) once again to create the killer album art for Inhumation. The album was…

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Album Review: Sleeps Society- While She Sleeps

Sheffield metalcore mob While She Sleeps take on the music industry on their fifth record, entitled Sleeps Society. The group tackle societal issues and mental health battles as well as…

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Album review: E.R. Jurken – ‘I Stand Corrected’: a psych-folk debut full of catharsis and melody

E.R. Jurken's first full missive into the world reveals quite the saddest tale at an angle, never telling, always hinting. It also shows an absolute grasp of songcraft, of melody, and an abiding love of British psych-pop and later American geniuses such as Neutral Milk Hotel and Elliott Smith

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EP Review: WA’s Pretty Uglys unleash ‘Party Friends’ – a blistering set of very attractive post punk anthems, executed with sneers, attitude and indelible pose.

Blasting off with ‘Emergency Room’, Western Australian band Pretty Uglys‘ new EP ‘Party Friends’ is a pulsating and vibrant set of magnificent, sneering and imposing tracks. Pure guitar-driven riffs over…

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Album Review: Electro Indie beauty from R Zak ‘s ‘Dialetcs’

Review : 9/ 10 There’s a certain folkloric quality that’s embedded in your mind, as the music shifts from the nuanced beauty to the darker , more solemn places in…

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Album review: Tristan Kasten-Krause – ‘Potential Landscapes’: a debut quartet of potent longform drones

Tristan's solo debut is a quartet of pieces that all head out from the same wellspring in different directions, different emotions; yet with a unity of feeling. If you worship at the altar of a well-executed drone-based record, then this one is mightily pleasing, if it doesn't break new ground, it takes you for a different look round places you thought you knew and introduces them afresh. Classy

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Album review: Secret of Elements – ‘Chronos’: the worlds of classical and electronic pirouette

A decade in a life lived richly and well, presented on an album which straddles two worlds which are becoming ever better acquainted - modern classical and electronica; when Johann really hits home the two pirouette gloriously. At times worthy of a billing on Erased Tapes or the like, at times closer to J.Willgoose's warm analogue ambience as Late Night Final, if we can take one thing away, it's to endeavour to live as boldly, as clearly and as truly as Johann has

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Album Review: Bob Evans unveils ‘Tomorrowland’ – a sparkling and shimmering journey through time – along with news of an Australia-wide tour

Australian indie giants Jebediah’s front person was Kevin Mitchell, and Mitchell, in turn, is Bob Evans – a persona created to deliver Mitchell’s solo work. His new album, ‘Tomorrowland’ is…

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Album review: iogi – ‘everything’s worth it’: a beautiful collection of songs

everything’s worth it is a really refreshing album from Yogev Glusman, a lesser known psych pop artist from Tel Aviv, and admittedly an ambitious one – but by now it’s…

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