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Album Review: The Jesus and Mary Chain reveal their stunning ‘Glasgow Eyes’ – an intoxicating mix of swagger and attitude with just a hint of reflection.

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Album Review: The Fall – The Real New Fall LP (Formerly Country On The Click) 20th anniversary reissue

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Album Review: Suburban Studs – Slam 2 CD Set On Cherry Red Records

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US doom legend Scott “Wino” Weinrich (The Obsessed, Saint Vitus), is set to release an acoustic record on June 26th via Ripple Music. Titled ‘Forever Gone’ it will be his first acoustic record since ‘Adrift’, and also marks the launch of Ripple’s ‘Blood and Strings’ vinyl series.Produced by Frank Marchand, ‘Forever Gone’ reflects the inexhaustible creativity of …

TRUNKY JUNO has been called ‘lo-fi’ in an attempt to slot him nicely into an ever more complicated musical map. And while some of the trademarks of that sub- (micro- ?) genre are definitely there, I would – to groans, necessarily – propose herewith that actually our dear Mr. Juno be referred to as ‘wide-fi’.  …

IF YOU’RE an old-skool, proper indie kid (and full disclosure, I count myself among that number), with campaign medals from the C86 wars – you saw action on the Creation, Midnight Music, 53rd & 3rd and Subway front lines, clutched fanzines with the finest, sipped snakebite during a set by Mighty Mighty – then Optic …

The bard’s long-awaited album, the first of new material in eight years, burgeons with a young man’s enthusiasm but an older gentleman’s wisdom and experience. The ten tracks produce an image of world-weariness and superiority with gusto, of a benevolent arrogance from someone unaccustomed to it, Dylan seeming like a town crier with bags of …

As a founding member of the likes of Brand New Heavies, Campag Velocet and Heliocentric World, Lascelle ‘Lascelles’ Gordon certainly has pedigree. His new album with his Vibration Black Finger band – ‘Can You See What I’m Trying To Say’ takes inspiration from obscure spiritual jazz collectives of the 70s, working with a huge number …

Wire have been producing scratchy abrasive arty intelligent pop/punk since the late 70s, and have therefore an impressive and formidable back-catalogue. With that inevitably comes an equally impressive cutting-room floor, where songs that didn’t make it to the disc in question languish, and in the wrong hands could’ve been lost forever. No so with Wire, …

In my formative years I was madly in love with what is termed as the second wave of ska – bands like The Specials, Madness and The Beat. There was a third wave which didn’t move me much, but if The Spitfires represent a fourth wave, then welcome back. ‘Life Worth Living’ is quite frankly …

The solo artist, boygenius, and Better Oblivion Community Center member’s second album delivers modern perceptions on mental health and weighty musings on relationships, while displaying the effects and symptoms of relationships rather than simply being love songs, across a lurid but vivid instrumental canvas. The opener’s warped, sparse and eerie vocals resonate like an onomatopoeic …

US BEATS stable Loot Recordings has welcomed Indian producer Aditya Prabhu to its roster. Recording as Filtergeist, Aditya has begun to carve out a name for himself in the past couple of years with a brace of mixes and a series of individual tracks for Quilla with trademark geometric videos. His debut release for Loot, …

CARDIFF’S Young Marble Giants subverted the revolution while the fires were still lit. In an age when guitars were razor-loud and lyrics were spat, the Welsh four-piece turned it right back down to a female-led fragility. One album was recorded for Rough Trade before fragmentation and the group’s main protagonists went firing off in different …