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Say Psych: Album Review: Urdog – Long Shadows 2003-2006

Long Shadows is a retrospective of Urdog, the work of a mercurial band whose music may have been summoned from fog and ghosts yet possesses considerable staying power beyond their…

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EP REVIEW: Głós – ‘Swimming In Colors’: monumental ambience from Affin

Głós' first EP for Affin is three whole different, astonishingly enveloping sound worlds. Let's hope he records an album in this vein; it'd wipe the floor with your consciousness. Intelligent ambience with incredible design and edge, it's one hell of an opening statement for an artist to make for his new home

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ALBUM REVIEW: Snowpoet – Wait for Me; Chamber folk-jazz duo return with absorbing album

Third album for the London-based chamber-jazz pair

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EP: Nuha Ruby Ra’s debut “How to Move” is as distressing as it is beautiful

Nuha Ruby Ra is an artist who, in her new EP “How to Move”, proves herself able to combine the cinematic with the personal without losing any of the intensity…

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Say Psych: Album Review: Holy Monitor – Southern Lights

Athens based quintet Holy Monitor last week released their eagerly awaited third LP Southern Lights on Blackspin/Primitive Music. They are a psychedelic rock quintet whose sound incorporates elements of krautrock,…

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EP: Hallucination reveal the destructive Hardcore punk of Hallucination EP

Destructive, defiant, devious, and D-beat – Philadelphia’s Hallucination take a smashing first step with their self-titled EP consisting of five songs (including the 37 second intro track) that stake their…

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Boston MC Billy Dean Thomas Reminds Us That “Hope Is A Song In A Weary Throat”

Last year seemed like the year that Billy Dean Thomas would finally break through. The Boston-based hip hop artist, poet and writer had accumulated a steady list of accomplishments. Thomas…

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Album review: Sarah Haras – ‘Mirage’: deeply effective and affecting abstraction

Often abstract albums come across like a loose series of random sketches; but not Mirage. It’s got a clear vision that binds it together and like the best electronic music suggests something different to every listener each time they tune in … and that is some achievement

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Album Review: Huck Hastings unveils a sparkling and gorgeous album ‘Cheers to Progress’, draped in love, loss, longing and optimism.

Huck Hastings is a Sydney based singer/songwriter whose new album ‘Cheers to Progress’ is a cinematic sweep full of longing, love and loss – a vivid and beautifully expressed series…

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ALBUM REVIEW: Cameron Knowler & Eli Winter – ‘Anticipation’: excellent studies in twin guitar primitivism

We don't get to hear quite enough of the modern fingerpicking style this side of the Atlantic, so if you've drifted off from the form somewhat since Jack Rose passed, or wish to explore beyond William Tyler; then hell; start right here. A grand tour of two instruments and two musical minds woven together so tightly and also unravelling like fronds of a fern, seeking all the multiplicity of new directions in folk. An excellent record

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