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EP REVIEW: JOCKSTRAP – Wicked City: we’re not in Kansas anymore, Toto

WARP debutantes Jockstrap – the duo Georgia Ellery and Taylor Skye, jazz and electronics students respectively in a previous life – really do screw with the ol’ head, in the…

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Album Review: Nadine Shah – Kitchen Sink

Kitchen Sink follows up Nadine Shah’s Mercury Prize nominated 2017 album Holiday Destination which received critical acclaim including AIM Awards ‘Independent Album of the Year’, a #7 ‘Album of the…

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Droppin’ Knowledge: On Jabee’s Stunning New LP, The OKC MC Hopes for the Best & Prepares For the Worst

When I spoke to hip hop artist Jabee, via Zoom last week, the Oklahoma City native seemed tired, but at peace. In the past several weeks, he had attended rallies…

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Album Review: Key Out – Anthropomorphia

Key Out are proving to be one of the more exciting bands in Sydney – even the world – at the moment and this is never evident than in their…

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Album review: Sofie – Cult Survivor

STEEPED in music and musicality for most of her life, Viennese chanteuse Sofie Fatourechi has been quietly working away in the industry in various guises for a long while; but…

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Album Review: Galaxians – Chemical Reaction

The second album from Leeds disco funk trio, Galaxians, out via Stargaze on 26th June. During the lockdown period and Covid-19 crisis, the music I have reviewed has been mostly…

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Album Review: The Total Rejection – The Time Traveller’s 3rd Will And Testament

Remember when gigs were a thing? Last year I went to a pub in Salford to see Bristol’s The Total Rejection in all their raucous glory. The gig was fantastic, like…

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EP: Starflyer 59 – Miami

Out now is new EP ‘Miami’ by Californian indie band Starflyer 59, on Velvet Blue Music. Starflyer 59 have released a multitude of albums, singles and EPs over the last…

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ALBUM REVIEW: bdrmm – ‘Bedroom’

A DEMO recorded on a smartphone, and a paucity of vowels: from such humble seeds Yorkshire’s bdrmm have flowered into probably the most hotly tipped band on the rejuvenated shoegaze…

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Album Review: LYR- Call in the Crash Team

The debut album by LYR is an eclectic and ambitious new project, derived from a trio of producer Patrick Pearson, musician Richard Walters and poet Simon Armitage. Besides a slew…

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