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Album Review – Hannah Cohen – Pleasure Boy

Hannah Cohen - Pleasure Boy - Album Cover

Intense, alluring and beautiful chanteuse Hannah Cohen releases her second album, ‘Pleasure Boy’, through Bella Union on 30th March 2015. It is the follow up to her debut, ‘Child Bride’…

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Not Forgotten: They Might Be Giants – Flood

As the 90s dawned, things were restless in the musical firmament. In the UK, we were coming to terms with the fact that we were still suffering from the hangover…

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Album Review: Some Truths – Bliss Abyss

There is a lot that can be said for sobbing acid casualties. What might seem to the Conservative ballot-casting outsider like a drooling comatose corpse slumped in the corner of…

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Tom Brosseau – Perfect Abandon

One of the first things I noticed about Tom Brosseau’s follow-up to 2014’s ‘Grass Punks’ is the sound. Sure, all the usual elements are there: Tom’s high, clear voice and…

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Album Review: Bombay Heavy – Bombay Heavy

Reinvention of the self in the music world is nothing new. It’s been done, ad infinitum. Lennon, Bowie, Bono and Beyonce have all adopted alter egos at some stage in…

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Album Review: CHAMPS – VAMALA

VAMALA is a word used by Isle of Wight fishermen for a certain type of dangerous storm that comes in suddenly off the sea. It is also the name of…

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Not Forgotten: Guided by Voices – Motivational Jumpsuit

An overlooked rather than a forgotten classic, Motivational Jumpsuit was the first of two albums by Guided by Voices that were released in quick succession in the first half of…

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Not Forgotten: Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers – Hard Promises

For reasons that have never been explained to my satisfaction, the majority of rock fans this side of the pond never embraced Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers in the same…

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Album Review: A Place To Bury Strangers: Transfixiation

Transfixiation is the best album A Place To Bury Strangers has made. That’s not to say anything that came before it wasn’t worthy of hurting our ears. But this time around…

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Album Review: Ibeyi – Ibeyi

There’s been a fair bit of fuss about Naomi and Lisa-Kaindé Díaz, known to us as Ibeyi and to some as daughters of famed percussionist Anga Díaz. Their first album,…

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