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EP Review: Balancing Act – Tightropes and Limericks

The second EP from these guys continues the great work they demonstrated with Malice In Tone (read our review here). Recorded across multiple studios, the band self-recorded sections at Studio…

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Album Review: Frank Sultana proves his legacy to the Oz blues scene and beyond with release of powerhouse new album, Have Band Will Travel.

Still riding on the coat-tails of his win in the 2023 International Blues Challenge in Memphis, Tennessee, Frank Sultana has kept busy writing and recording, with the resultant The Ghosts…

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Album Review: Mörk – Still Dreamin’: shape-shifting soul-jazz energy from the Budapest band.

Okay so we know that as far as new scenes go Rio gets touted as the upcoming centre of 21st century tropicalia pop and Geneva continues to excel in pushing…

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Album Review: us & sparkles – When The Birds Kick In

A red sun sparkles through heaven’s space with a slate-colored haze: When The Bird Kicks In marks the departure towards a new vibe within the us & sparkles universe: warm pigments, woody…

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Album Review: Iván Muela –‘Ether’: a subtle and sublime merging of neo-classical and experimental music.

Writing a review of pianist/composer Iván Muela’s latest album ‘Ether’ feels almost like a redundant endeavour. Here is a recording likely to affect the listener differently each time they tune…

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Album Review: Anna Erhard –‘Botanical Garden’: jibing, jiving joy to be found in this slacker pop gem.

There’s something actually refreshing about a singer/songwriter who describes their ‘creative process’ as “…something makes me frustrated, and then I turn it into a little passive-aggressive song…just obsessing about stuff…

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Review: Asian Dub Foundation celebrate 30 years with a consummate compilation

Asian Dub Foundation are celebrating their 30th anniversary, and to mark this they have released a compilation of some of their finest collaborations from across their 3 decade storyline. They’re…

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Album Review: Psychlona’s ‘Warped Vision’ elicits the distinct clarity of a band on a steep upward trajectory

UK stoner rock giants, Psychlona are set to release their fourth long-player, Warped Vision in the coming days, with the album set to cement them into the upper echelons of…

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Album Review: Jack Rock – Explorations of a fourth dimension

Electronic music was always the sound of the future. Imagined soundtracks of what the world could be. The music of technology mirrored our utopian visions of the new possibilities, ideas…

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Album Review: Raffy Bushman – ‘Here Today Gone Tomorrow’: More thrilling post-bop nu jazz from the London pianist and composer.

For a musician who puts out an annual album release, pianist, cellist and composer Raffy Bushman manages to keep surprisingly under the muso-radar but you sense that’s just how he…

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