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Premiere: Listen to the New Memphis Colorways album ‘It Is What It Isn’t’ in full; a modern funk-jazz journey

Out tomorrow (May 21st) is the new album from Memphis multi-instrumentalist Paul Taylor, under his New Memphis Colorways guise, called It Is What It Isn’t. Ahead of its release we’re…

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News: Andy Shauf announces a British and European tour for next year; see the video for the caustic tale, ‘Living Room’

EXPONENT of beautiful baroque pop Andy Shauf has unveiled a 26-date tour of Europe and the UK in support of his excellent 2020 album The Neon Skyline, a lovely addition to…

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Album review: Cheval Sombre – ‘Days Go By’: Chris Porpora’s second of the year delivers an airy, dreamy space-folk coda

IT’S ONLY his fourth album at all in the catalogue; the second, Mad Love, was almost nine years ago now; but the third, Time Waits For No One, is only…

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See: Texan guitar melodicist Cameron Knowler announces his debut solo album; come see the video for the atmospheric ‘Puerto Suelo’

TEXAN solo guitar practitioner and melodicist Cameron Knowler – whose lovely, exploratory album with Eli Winter, Anticipation, we fully embraced in early March – has announced he’s to unveil his…

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See: Peace Flag Ensemble – ‘Presentism’: a bittersweet, lovely, experimental jazz essay from Saskatchewan collective

ROCK ‘n’ roll: the experimental jazz collective Peace Flag Ensemble has its seed in a meeting at a book group, somewhere, we’re told, between when pianist Jon Neher and ambient…

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See: Conchúr White’s ‘Dreamers’ tackles that small town yearning for another life in rousing indie-folk

NORTHERN IRISH singer-songwriter Conchúr White has today doubled down on his single drop from early March, the lovely late-night tumble of “Vocation Vacation” with the just-add-water-and-stir absolute anthem, “Dreamers”, the…

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Live review: Squid, Falmouth, May 18th: who finer to bring us back to the live experience?

FOUR hundred and forty-seven days. Yep, I counted; or rather some natty piece of online calculator software did. Fessin’ up: maths was never my strong point. Anyhow, that long since…

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Premiere: Jack Prest – ‘Test Tone IV’ and ‘Test Tone VII’: deliciously amniotic ambient electronica from Sydney

JACK PREST, the Australian soundscaper, is perhaps best known for his work on the other side of the plexiglass as an engineer and producer at Sydney’s Studios 301, nine decades…

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Track: Odd Tastes give us seamless and shimmering electro-pop with new single ‘IT’S ALRIGHT’

Charmingly quirky, Ballarat-based indie-pop duo Odd Tastes make an exciting return to the scene with latest single ‘IT’S ALRIGHT’ – an effervescent delight of a track, produced and mixed by…

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Premiere: Sydney supergroup The Finalists unveil evocative video for the shimmering track ‘Hunting Knife’

Last year’s debut album ‘First’ by The Finalists (reviewed by me here) was a highly impressive entrance: I summed it up as being a collection of deeply personal songs that…

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