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EP review: Safety First are asking ‘Why Is Being Successful So Hard?’ in a sparkling debut EP that radiates with wit and melody, with launch date announced.

Sydney band Safety First perfectly project with great style and panache a quirky and fey stance in their EP ‘Why Is Being Successful So Hard?’, an EP that is so…

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EP Review: Ciinema – Ciinema EP

Vibrant synths, bopping bass and swinging beats, Ciinema’s debut, self-titled 6 track is a joy. Wasting no time creating, a shimmering, neon synth heavy tone, ‘Lockdown’ opens with shimmering guitars…

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Album review: The Royal Beggars – Falling To New Heights.

The Royal Beggars might currently be one of those ‘best kept secrets’ of the UK underground sleaze scene, but that’s definitely set to change with their long-awaited full-length debut “Falling…

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Album Review: ‘There’s Still Time’ for Humble – compelling low-fi Kiama indie rock with live dates in sight.

Trio Humble from the seaside town of Kiama have released their album ‘There’s Still Time’: an intriguing collection of refined chaos that is as utterly compelling as it is fun.…

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Album Review: Jonny Wickham – Terra Boa: Vibrant new jazz with a Brazilian heartbeat

Well you can’t say that Jonny Wickham’s first solo album lacks ambition. ‘Terra Boa‘, out now via Fresh Sound Records sees the jazz bassist and composer leading a sizeable band…

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Album Review: Me Lost Me – RPG : folk music of the future now

Folk music for today, what’s that then? Playing the old songs in new ways? Playing new songs in the old ways? Maybe the one tradition that’s certain is that the…

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Album Review: Emily Kuhn – Ghosts Of Us : Bouyant, melodic, refreshing jazz from the Chicago trumpeter.

Emily Kuhn’s new album ‘Ghosts of Us’, out now via the consistently impressive BACE Records, may have been written during the cloying pall of pandemic times but it represents an…

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EP Review: Tom Emlyn – Scaredycat Vol. 1 B-Sides

Tom Emlyn shares three new B-sides from the recently released new album ‘Return Journey Revisited: Scaredycat, Vol. 1’. A prolific songwriter who released two albums worth of material in 2022…

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Album Review: Daniel Alexander Hignell-Tully – I Hope They Let Us Hunt Like Men In The Next Life: Thrilling experimentalism/challenging sounds from the DAMM founder.

Difficult music, what does that mean? Is it something at the opposite end of the spectrum to easy listening? Or is it all relative to the individual? I mean there…

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Album Review: Être Ensemble – CLOSE / SPACE: more montage music and cinematic vision from the inspired Joni Void network.

Experimental musician and sound artist Joni Void’s astounding tapestry of musical connectivity continues. The three albums released via Constellation, ‘Selfless’, ‘Mise En Abyme’ and this year’s ‘Everyday is the Song’,…

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