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Say Psych: Album Review: Upupayāma – Honesty Flowers

Honesty Flowers is the fourth studio album from Italian multi-instrumentalist Alessio Ferarri under the Upupayāma moniker. The epic double album offers Upupayāma’s ever mind-blowing brew of organic psychedelic rock meets…

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Album Review: Hana Stretton – ‘tiarn’: An ambient folk moment that needs to be cherished.

Solitude is essential for Australian folk composer and sound collector Hana Stretton. Her debut, 2023’s, the shimmering ‘Soon’, was written during an extended stay watching over her much-missed Grandmother’s New…

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Album Review: Loma Suyo –‘Paloma’ : Latin infused folktronica which brings guaranteed refreshment and a warm glow.

Having crossed paths for a decade, Philly musicians Liz Fullerton and Ish Quintero finally committed to working together as Loma Suyo in 2019. Enticed by the possibilities of merging Fullerton’s…

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Album Review: ‘Works Live’ – Emerson, Lake & Palmer

For decades, ‘Works Live’ has occupied one of the most misunderstood positions in Emerson, Lake & Palmer’s extensive catalogue. Overshadowed by the commercial success of ‘Welcome Back My Friends to…

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Album Review: Jad Atoui – ‘It Will Take Forever’: A challenging merger of electronics, noise and ambience from the Lebanese sound sculptor.

Beirut -based audio-artist Jad Atoui’s ‘It Will Take Forever’ takes you on a journey into the depths of sound. Experimental electronic music with the listener key to the experiment, it’s…

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Album Review: Akusmi – ‘Terra Incognita’: A lush sonic expedition into exotic rhythms and sultry sax melodies.

London based multi-instrumentalist and composer Pascal Bideau a.k.a Akusmi returns with his third Tonal Union album and if you’re a follower you’ll understand it’s not exactly going to be more…

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Say Psych: Album Review: Magic Castles – Realized

Magic Castles are back with a set of lush psych-rock reveries. Newly signed to Fuzz Club, their new album Realized takes Magic Castles’ music to a newfound level of clarity,…

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Album Review: Ferg’s Imaginary Big Band – ‘The New Atomic’: Full powered punk jazz dynamism that refuses to follow the script.

Why is Big Band jazz a proposition that many swerve? Is it seen as too close to trad, too much of a historically significant relic. In truth the Big Band…

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Album Review: Bicycle Thieves and Dunedin Dreams – Ōtepoti’s Bunchy’s Big Score top the league with ‘Wanda’s Bicycle’

Bunchy’s Big Score have one foot planted firmly in the storied soil of Ōtepoti and the other kicking gleefully at the future. On their second album ‘Wanda’s Bicycle’, the New…

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Album Review: Madonna Reclaims Her Club Crown With Confessions II

Madonna has spent more than four decades rewriting the rules of pop, so it feels fitting that Confessions II arrives at a moment when the cultural conversation is dominated by female…

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