Album Review: Porcelain Raft – Microclimate
Mauro Remiddi appeared from a hazy cloud of synthwave and dream pop back in 2012 under the name Porcelain Raft with the lush Strange Weekend. It was this wonderful mix…
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Album Review: Julian Cope – Drunken Songs
Few artists can claim to have ploughed such a rich and bizarre furrow as Julian Cope. From scouse-pop Smash Hits pin-up, calling at Scott walker acid casualty, via stone(d) circle…
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Album Review: The Menzingers – After The Party
Returning with their anticipated latest album ‘After The Party’, The Menzingers take a look at the themes of life after your twenties. Presented through energetic riffs and catchy rhythms, there’s a lot…
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Say Psych: Album Review: Dead Gurus – ACID BENCH
Rating: 9/10 Dead Gurus are a Minneapolis based cosmic outfit proffering some of the finest psychedelic grooves to grace the airwaves in some time. With band members coming from a…
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Album Review: Thievery Corporation – The Temple of I & I
Rob Garza and Eric Hilton, aka electronic duo Theivery Corporation have released the fruits of their labour, recording in Jamaica for their latest full lengther and unsurprisingly given the setting,…
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Album Review: Dutch Uncles – Big Balloon
Dutch Uncles return with a triumphant fifth album, their fourth on the Memphis Industries label and first since 2015’s “O Shudder”. It’s remarkable that the Marple band (Duncan, Pete, Robin…
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Album Review: Grails – ‘Chalice Hymnal’
Grails, hail from Portland, Oregon. A seaport state nestled under Washington and characterised by its diverse landscape of forests, mountains, farms and beaches. That Pacific Northwest essence runs through the…
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Album Review: Molly Burch – ‘Please Be Mine’
Captured Tracks is proud to unveil this ten track album of gorgeous, whimsical, heartfelt and romantic songs of ‘loss, loneliness and reconnecting’. For fans of the Angel Olson and Hope…
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Album Review: Judas Priest – Turbo 30 (Remastered 30th Anniversary Deluxe Edition)
I’m just going to come out and say it, Judas Priest’s Turbo was a damn good album. It was much maligned by the long-haired, leather-wearing metal dudes that pumped fists…
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Album Review: Surfer Blood – Snowdonia
It seems that in the past few years we have been awash with surfer-rock/surfer-pop albums, seemingly become the music du jour for those who feel slightly more fashionable to still…
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