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ALBUM REVIEW: Ana Roxanne – ‘Because Of A Flower’: a blissful vocal gem from Kranky

Ana Roxanne’s debut LP for Kranky is a beautiful, ambient album that examines ideas about gender, identity and beauty whilst remaining ultimately soothing. It’s one to return to when in need of solace.

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ALBUM REVIEW: Subp Yao – ‘Infra Aqual’: deep into the dark IDM ocean trenches

If you're a fan of the shearing and crushing end of the dance music spectrum - anything from (on-form) The Prodigy through Harthouse and Tresor styles - and fancy the idea of that real defleshed aesthetic spliced with some darker downbeatz interludes, this is a record you'd find rewarding to explore

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ALBUM REVIEW: Ian William Craig & Daniel Lentz – ‘FRKWYS Vol.16: In A Word’: fragile, seductive experimenta for voice, tape and piano is

Ian William Craig & Daniel Lentz's FRKWYS Vol.16: In A Word is a fragile and beautiful work for classical voice, piano, and tape decay, roaming across a broad and brittle hinterland between Gorecki and Basinski

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ALBUM REVIEW: Laura Fell – ‘Safe From Me’: an incredible voice, a brilliant debut

A truly splendid and gorgeous debut set from this incredible new singer-songwriting talent demands room in your life

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ALBUM REVIEW: Pet Grotesque brings the late summer nights with ‘Female Synth Player’

PET GROTESQUE is the solo project of Calum Armstrong, who can also be found in the excellent Tiña (who released their debut album, Positive Mental Health, last week). Channeling King…

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Album Review: LA Guns – Renegades

Renegades is the brand new album from L.A. Guns, out on Friday, 13 November, 2020, through Golden Robot Records. Not to get bogged down in the line ups and who is the…

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Album Review: Nothing – The Great Dismal

2020's best shoegaze album.

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ALBUM REVIEW: Denison Witmer – ‘American Foursquare’: soothing Philadelphia folk

Asthmatic Kitty announces a physical release for the soothing new album by PA songwriter

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ALBUM REVIEW: Urlaub in Polen – ‘All’: welcome and surprise return of fine krautrock pair

This unexpected album from German duo Urlaub im Polen has arrived eight years after they originally disbanded. Back and bolder than ever, All marks an ambitious comeback from the pair - it's a collection of warped, electronic Krautrock.

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ALBUM REVIEW: Gabriel Ólafs – ‘Absent Minded Reworks’: Icelandic piano prodigy receives very fine electronica rerubs

ICELANDIC composer and pianist Gabríel Ólafs – who wrote his debut LP, Absent Minded, aged just 14 – is always happy to offer his beautiful music for reinterpretation – by…

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