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Album Review: Not Now Norman – Go Hard Or Go Home

It’s an ominous start from chanting, rising organs, and an outburst of frantic riffing crafting one of the best album openers. Delivering Hard Rock courtesy of guitarist Zander Brown with…

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Album Review: Maalem Houssam Guinia – ‘Dead Of Night’ : An unforgettable, intense offering from the Gnawa master-musician

We should be mighty thankful for the long and strong relationship that’s grown between Brighton’s Hive Mind Records and Guinia family of Gnawa musicians in Morocco. Back in 2017, the…

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Album Review: Scan 7 – Dark Territory

Patience is a virtue well-rewarded in techno; finding the right groove to build on then holding your nerve long enough to pay off the wait at the optimum moment is…

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Album Review: James Last – Funky Music

There are people who think that the terms JAMES LAST and FUNKY MUSIC cannot be used in the same sentence. These people may know James Last, but they certainly don’t…

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Album Review: Earthen Sea –‘Recollection’: Blissful ambient techno with a deeper trip-hop flow.

Jacob Long’s musical journey has wound from seminal Dischord post-hardcore band Black Eyes through the deep dub rhythmics of Mi Ami to arriving, around 2014, in more greyscale/ambient landscapes with…

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EP Review: Fraser Morgan – I Hope You Can’t Relate

Fraser Morgan’s new EP ‘I Hope You Can’t Relate’, is an emotionally charged, cathartic journey that seamlessly blends raw honest lyricism with folk instrumentation and a vibrant, urgent punk energy.…

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Album Review: Jagged Baptist Club – Physical Surveillance

For those who like their indie with a spot of dying seaside town glamour and a drop of psyche, then the Jagged Baptist Club might very much be your club.…

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Album Review: Scrimshire –‘Music for Autumn Lovers’: a flowing, wholesome down-tempo soundtrack for the season and beyond.

November may be the month when there’s a deluge of new releases ahead of the Xmas drought but here’s a recording that deserves to be heard amongst all the noise.…

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Album Review: Fazerdaze wields her ‘Soft Power’ with aplomb in a majestic new album.

The inimitable and ethereal Fazerdaze (the nom de plume of Amelia Murray) has just released her first LP in seven years – ‘Soft Power’ – via Buttrfly/Virgin Music Group, and it is a…

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Album Review: The Offline –‘Les Cigales’ : Seductive soundtrack grooves with an analogue funk foundation.

Curiouser and curiouser, here’s the return of the illusive and slighty mysterious persona known as The Offline (aka Hamburg based guitarist/producer Felix Müller) with a quirky new EP ‘Les Cigales’.…

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