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NEWS: M. Ward announces Billie Holiday covers album; hear ‘For Heaven’s Sake’

YOUR humble scribe has loved Portland’s M. Ward since right back in the days of The Transfiguration of St Vincent – his beautiful 2003 album full of his mellifluous voice,…

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NEWS: Hanya announce tour dates; hear ‘Monochrome’

BRIGHTON’S gorgeous rising dreampop outfit Hanya, who we last heard of back in July, when they declared hometown label Austerity Records’ Cassette Club open with their very fine Sea Shoes…

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TRACKS: Erland Cooper – ‘Landform’: a digital companion to the Orkney trilogy

ORCADIAN soundscaper and composer Erland Cooper has today released one final digitally streamed companion piece to accompany his beautiful Orkney Triptych. Take a listen below. Its a seven-track, 35-minute ambient…

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TRACK: Late Night Final – ‘Thank You’: J. Willgoose steps out from his broadcasting role

YOU ALMOST certainly know J. Willgoose as one of the bespectacled whizzkids behind the ever brilliant Public Service Broadcasting. But now he’s decided to invest in a little extra-curricular activity…

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TRACK: Claude Cooper’s ‘Tangerine Dreams’ 7″ launches Friendly Recordings

OK, OK. Two things. Firstly, do you like a little jazziness to your grooves? Nah, scrub that. Do you like a lot? Do you like a double bass line so…

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NEWS: The Wedding Present announce album of lockdown versions and more – see the stripped back ‘Crawl’

ALL THIS viral mess around us: it’s meant musicians have had to lock and load, get going as the going got tough. Plates, stepped up to. New ways adopted. New…

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NEWS: The Lathums’ one-only 7″ ‘The Snake’ raises £4,000 for the Latics

BACK in September we reported on Wigan’s indie chosen few, The Lathums, and the equal parts excellent and fun fundraising idea they’d got going in order to raise funds for…

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NEWS: Gazelle Twin & NYX announce March album – hear their distention of The Wicker Man’s ‘Fireleap’

GAZELLE TWIN: love her or baffled by her, you cannot deny the deep, artful, playful, pranksterish, eerie, sheer damn potency of her work. The creative extension of composer Elizabeth Bernholz, her…

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NEWS: Martha Ffion to play live-streamed session this week – see “Rosalie”

LOST MAP’s smoothly sweet singer-songwriter Martha Ffion is pleased as punch to announce (as should we be) a live-streamed session this week. The live sesh has been commissioned by Lost…

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TRACK: Samuel Sharp announces album for the new year; hear ‘Catching Leaves’

BRITISH leftfield saxophonist and composer Samuel Sharp, who has previously partially hidden his light under the recording name Lossy – and whose lovely, dubby, impressionistic single release “Fireworks From The…

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