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EP: Elle Músa’s gorgeous ‘sun, sun,sun’ is filled with dappled filtered sunshine and hints of melancholia

Brisbane’s Elle Músa has released an EP that literally sparkles and shines like the sun on the Queensland coast. A bucolic and sleepy air hangs over the EP – but…

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ALBUM REVIEW: Julien Baker – Little Oblivions

Memphis-born Julien Baker returns with her haunting, ballad-filled 3rd studio album, that you would have to be oblivious to not be enamoured with. In her first solo album since Turn…

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Album Review: Smith And Burrows – Only Smith And Burrows Is Good Enough

It’s been some nine years since Tom Smith and Andy Burrows delivered their bleak winter masterpiece ‘Funny Looking Angels’. Now the duo return treating us to another full length release…

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Album review: Samuel Sharp – ‘Patterns Various’: diaristic, timeless sax explorations

Patterns Various sits in a emerging tradition of very beautiful single-instrument essays; a very personal journey, and a very English one, captures its moments so well that people will be sure to revisit it for decades to come

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Album review: Cheval Sombre – ‘Time Waits For No One’: a luxuriant, timeless and meditative return

Time Waits For No One is not without its darknesses, its sadnesses, but they're approached with the calm, supplicant grace that sits right in the heart of such feelings; and it is bloody beautiful. It's an amulet, a perfect prescription; you can use it to ward off the world. Really, do

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Album Review: FM Einheit orchestrates dreams with “Exhibition Of A Dream.”

Having made mention of KMFDM in a previous review, it would seem that the more euro-centric oddities that are emerging from the winter have made their way into the collective…

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Album Review: Bradford release ‘Bright Hours’: a magnificent follow-up to ‘Shouting Quietly’, 31 years on

SOME things change and some stay the same. Whereas before, with debut album Shouting Quietly, there was a car journey home from nearby Loughborough, Left-Legged Pineapple bag strewn on the…

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Album Review: Loathe – The Things They Believe

This is an album Loathe have been threatening to make for a while, something more conceptual, akin to that of a film score; less Meshuggah, more David Lynch. The heavy,…

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ALBUM REVIEW: slowthai – TYRON

The funny thing about TYRON is how clearly slowthai intends towards something, but never quite approaches it. Nothing Great About Britain was excellent – not to mention very clear in…

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Album Review: The Actions unveil the luscious atmospheric ‘Flourish’

Bristol duo The Actions‘ display their home town trip hop roots adeptly in their new album ‘Flourish’, out now through Niteo Records. This album has a spacious expansive atmosphere with…

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