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EP: Auckland’s Silk Cut shape out another elegant dream pop delight in new EP ‘panda’.

Last year’s ‘astronaut’, the debut EP from New Zealand’s enigmatic Silk Cut (reviewed by me here) was a hazy dreamy introduction to a band that has, amongst its constituent members,…

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Album Review: Aldous Harding – Warm Chris – Fire Walk with Me

Aldous Harding's 'Warm Chris' is an early contender for album of the year.

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Album Review – Francis Harris – Thresholds

Beginning with 2012’s ‘Leland’ New York artist Francis Harris has been doing a deep dive into the sonic swells and contrapuntal granularities that articulate our most abstract, and sometimes slowest…

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Album Review: Camp Cope Back with a Blissful new Album

Camp Cope are back with melodic, vulnerable album Running with the Hurricane

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EP: Grids/Units/Planes unveil the heady and mesmerising electronica of ‘Diverge And Coalesce’

The sounds of Brisbane project Grids/Units/Planes (GUP) are that of a cloudy, diffuse space that glitches and hums in a languorous rich texture: awe-inspiring and transfixing. I have always thought…

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Album Review: Big Thief – ‘Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe In You’

Crikey, but Big Thief have had a busy COVID. 4AD’s Brooklynite indie darlings issued their fourth album, ‘Two Hands’ (billed as the “earth twin” to their hugely successful ‘U.F.O.F.’) in…

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Album Review – The Allegorist – Blind Emperor

For one empire to rise, another must fall.For us to reach the highs, through dark holes we must crawl.For the vision in the deep, we need,we sacrifice and bleed, to…

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Not Forgotten: We revisit Augie March’s stunning debut ‘Sunset Studies’ from 2000 – still an essential antipodean sonic milestone – which gets a belated 21st birthday party.

By 2000, by the time Y2K anxiety had dissipated and, before the events of 9/11 cast a pall everywhere, post grunge was solidifying its place in the world and the…

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Album Review: Tapani Rinne & Juha Maki-Patola – Open: exquisite jazz electronica that restores and inspires.

Some records arrive that make you wonder if there is much value to writing about music. ‘Open’ by the Finnish ambient jazz partnership of reedist Tapani Rinne and composer/producer Juha…

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Live Review: Tom Odell – O2 Apollo, Manchester 21.02.2022

Words: Taylor Connelly / Pictures: Kitty Handley Tom Odell’s performance at the O2 Apollo in Manchester on February 21st, proved that all he will ever need to showcase his sheer…

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