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Album Review: Josefin Öhrn’s ‘Cherry’ is a sensual, sun-dappled second adolescence that shimmers with beauty.

Josefin Öhrn has made an album about falling headlong into desire again, and she isn’t the least bit coy about it. ‘Cherry’, her solo debut, was written during a period…

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Album Review: Also Steve Bates – ‘An Infinite Antenna’: switching wavelengths and finding another dazzling electronic charge.

Montreal-based sound artist and musician Also Steve Bates seems to thrive on setting himself challenges. For his 2022 debut for Constellation, ‘All The Things That Happen’ he focused on the…

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Album Review: Hoolahan’s ‘Bay of Chance’ gives us breathtakingly beautiful melodies, chiming guitars and a career-defining form.

Some bands disappear so quietly that you stop expecting them back, then return with a record that makes the wait look like a deliberate act of patience. Sydney’s Hoolahan have…

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Album Review: Negro Leo – ‘White Elephant’: Confrontational, complex and utterly compelling retrospective from the Brazilian experimenter.

Opening windows onto the best music that you’ve never heard, the latest reveal from Hive Miind Records is another ambitious and, in some ways, risky release. Working with Rio based…

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Album Review: After find their place in the sun on debut album ‘Fell Asleep in the Sun’

After beginning life on Hinge. Los Angeles duo Justine Dorsey and Graham Epstein quickly worked out that romance wasn’t on the cards, but that their musical chemistry was. Since forming…

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Album Review: boycalledcrow – ‘the sprawl’: restless folktronica which goes darker and deeper.

Time to rummage once more in former folk-singer Carl M. Knott’s curious world of sound. As boycalledcrow his latest intriguing collection ‘the sprawl’ sees him working wonders from a trove…

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Album review: Wasia Project release an album that embraces the beauty of the in-between

Preview: Wasia Project release an album that embraces the beauty of the in-between

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EP Review: エミエミ (emi emi) unveils her debut self-titled EP, and you’ll need shades and dancing shoes.

Sometimes – actually quite often – it gets very dark and cold in the southern headquarters of Backseat Mafia, where the next port of call to the south is Antarctica.…

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