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Album Review : Astral TV’s ‘Chrystal Shores

Listening to Astral TVs Chrystal Shores is like receiving some ancient transmission from deep space. It slowly unfolds through breathing synthesizers and tube-driven circuits these interplanetary melodies. This album evokes…

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Classic Compilation: Orbital – Back to Mine

The ‘Back to Mine’ compilations premise was simple. After pummelling your brain to mush in a sweaty club, with four hours of repetitive beats, the DJ in question would invite…

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Album Review: Justin Currie – This Is My Kingdom Now

Justin Currie’s new album – ‘This Is My Kingdom Now’ – is the polished jewel in the crown of the Del Amitri frontman’s solo career. Currie’s fourth solo album (out…

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Album Review : Diagnos’ ‘Diagnos’

Listening to Diagnos’ debut self-titled record is a beguiling experience. It falls somewhere between ambient noise pop and hypnotic electronica. There’s moments where you get lost in the melodic drone…

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Album Review : Com Truise ‘Iteration’

Yeah, I know that name annoys some people. It doesn’t me, but I get it. Seth Haley’s musical project Com Truise has been making retro-futuristic electronic music since the release…

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Album Review: The Membranes – Everyones Going Triple Bad Acid Yeah 5 CD Box Set

Blackpool`s finest post punk band formed in 1977 get the box set treatment from Cherry Red and about time too. John Robb and Mark Tilton formed the Membranes at Blackpool…

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Album Review : Jeff Tweedy’s ‘Together At Last’

As I sat listening to Jeff Tweedy’s newest collection of acoustic covers called Together At Last, the thing that hit me first was how much my friend Mark would’ve loved…

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Say Psych: Album Review: The Telescopes – As Light Return

Rating: 7/10 The Telescopes return with their ninth album, As Light Return released on German label Tapete Records on 7th July 2017 on vinyl, CD and digital formats. The brain…

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Album Review : R. Missing’s ‘Unsummering’ EP

There’s both a quiet cool and a dark tension that permeates R. Missing’s EP Unsummering. Even in their promotional material it says “You won’t find love songs here. You’ll find…

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Say Psych: Album Review: Las Cobras – Temporal

Rating: 8/10 Psychedelia has always been in South America’s culture and history, ingrained since the 1960s with the politically charged tropicalia movement and things aren’t so different now. A great…

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