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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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ALBUM REVIEW: CAMERA – ‘Prosthuman’: the current Berlin motorik

SO, LET’S talk krautrock. In many ways, it’s all about the rhythm, isn’t it? Think Can; think Jaki Liebezeit, that perfect control, poise, underpinning. Motorik, propulsion, but also tremendous fills…

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ALBUM REVIEW: Psychedelic Porn Crumpets – SHYGA! The Sunlight Mound

The tricky thing about this Psychedelic Porn Crumpets album, particularly when stacked up against the likes of High Visceral {Part 1}, is that it feels like it has to be…

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ALBUM REVIEW: Indigo Sparke – ‘echo’: a jaw-dropping country-folk debut

You can hear Indigo's very essence shot right through echo. It's never less, at any point, than extremely lovely; at many points its genuinely bloody stunning. You know when someone has that alchemical it, and boy: Indigo incontrovertibly does. It's not an album to have on in the background, because it's far too arresting and enveloping, commanding. She's royalty in waiting on the leftfield folk scene. Astonishing; buy

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EP REVIEW: Tape Runs Out – ‘Ghost Fruit’: hail Cambridge’s new intelligent indiepop geniuses

I really, genuinely think Tape Runs Out may one day take a place in the pantheon of the proper eccentric, intelligent British pop genii - they can turn their hands in any direction they wish, know how to arrange a tune so it makes you sit bolt upright, aren't afraid to push that tune in whichever stylistic direction it seems to demand; yet are also completely enthralled to the brilliance of a well-turned pop song. Brilliant, insouciant and intelligent

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Album review: Alberteen’s sparkling analogue voyage of discovery ‘Lowenva’ is a refreshing beacon of light.

In ‘Lowenva’, Alberteen have created a mesmerising, organic album that crinkles with visceral instruments – melodic crunchy bass, pounding percussion, rumbling guitars, riffing horns and deep laconic cool vocals. It…

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