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Album Review: -(16)- return to form with Dream Squasher

-(16)- return with their new album, Dream Squasher this month via Relapse Records. A testament to the power of loss, every moment of Dream Squasher casts the San Diego band into new, deeper depths.…

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Album Review: Modern Nature – Annual

JACK COOPER has had a mercurial musical decade. Cast your mind back ten years and you’d have found him in that harbour of all things leftfield, FatCat, plying his trade…

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Droppin’ Knowledge: Nostalgia Ultra – O.C.’s Masterpiece, Word…Life (1994)

The Golden Age of hip hop produced many vital recordings. But Brooklyn’s Omar Credle hit a four-run home run with his debut, Word…Life. He uses words to dodge and weave,…

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Album review: Windy & Carl – Allegiance and Conviction

DEARBORN, Michigan, isn’t necessarily a name that trips off the tongue when you think of musical powerhouses; but this little satellite city of Detroit is a quiet mecca for fans…

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Album Review: Boyracer – On a Promise

It’s hard to keep a good genre down, to coin a phrase: and the once-maligned ‘tweepop’ – the bands that followed on in the wake of the NME’s C86 compilation…

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Album artwork for 'The Prettiest Curse' by Hinds

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Album Review: Hinds – The Prettiest Curse

Hinds take us from bad times to great times with exhilarating new album The Prettiest Curse. The third album from the Madrid-based quartet (Carlotta Cosials, Ana Perrote, Ade Martin and…

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Album Review: Doomshakalaka – Doomshakalaka

Rafferty has constructed a collection of ten songs that work as both a great piece of work but also a piece of archive material as he looks back on his…

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EP: DITZ – 5 Song EP

Brighton post-punk / noise rock quintet DITZ have today (June 3rd) released their new EP, called, well, 5 Song EP. It’s out as a limited run of 500 on beautiful…

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Album Review: Katie Malco ‘Failures’

The debut album by UK based singer-songwriter Katie Malco. The much anticipated debut by Katie Malco, Failures, is released by 6131 records, and is both a personal soul-bearing record and…

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Album Review: Muzz – Muzz

The ‘supergroup’ moniker conjures a vast spectrum stretching from the cringey banality of 2010’s ‘McBusted’ revival, or the spectacular 60’s rock wet dream of ‘The Dirty Mac’. Contrary to the…

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