Album Review : Venetian Snares x Daniel Lanois
Venetian Snares have been releasing unsettling and dischordant music for 20 years – it seems crazy to ask, but are they becoming familiar and cosy. Particularly as the new album…
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Say Psych: Album Review: Sherpa The Tiger – Great Vowel Shift
Sherpa The Tiger are a brand-new band hailing from the borderlands of Lviv, Ukraine. With an arsenal of decrepit Soviet synthesisers, the four-piece combine a love of minimalist ambient music…
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Album Review : Oneohtrix Point Never’s ‘Age Of’
Daniel Lopatin’s musical worlds are labyrinthine to say the least. A Oneohtrix Point Never record is like some vast, crystalline museum where you bask in the beauty of art, ancient…
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Album Review: Sharone & The Wind – Enchiridion of Nightmares
Despite this being the second album from Sharone & The Wind, it feels like a debut. An introduction to something new, with a sense of purpose and an air of…
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Album Review: Web Sheldon – Fingerprints
There’s no shortage of music falling into the Backseat Mafia mailbox from new male singer-songwriters. Ever since Ed Sheeran achieved world domination, there as been an influx of young male…
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Album Review: Modern Studies – Welcome Strangers
Modern Studies’ first album was a lovely pastoral piece of folk-pop, built up around the sound of an old harmonium. Since then seemingly every hipster-Adam-Boyle-type has got themsleves a harmonium,…
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Album Review: Courtney Barnett – Tell Me How You really Feel
Courtney Barnett is swiftly developing global adulation for her low-fi, heartfelt vignettes of life which capture with great honesty her trials and tribulations and insecurities. Like Jonathan Richman, there is…
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Album Review: Tracyanne & Danny – Tracyanne & Danny
Tracyanne & Danny’s eponymous debut album couples unblinking reflections on moments in life – and love – with a wonderfully timeless sound. Tracyanne & Danny brings together Tracyanne Campbell and…
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Say Psych: Album Review – Wooden Shjips – V.
Wooden Shjips, long-time leaders of the contemporary psychedelic movement, expand their sound with V. which is released on Thrill Jockey Records this Friday. The quartet of Omar Ahsanuddin, Dusty Jermier,…
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ALBUM REVIEW: Arctic Monkeys – Tranquillity Base Hotel & Casino
Before I say anything at all, I think it’s best you and I agree: nothing the Arctic Monkeys could have produced would have been enough. They are simply too loved…
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