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Album Review: Cluster Lizard – Star Corsair

Overview: Freedom of the Star Corsair “Whoever wishes the eternal, must leave the temporal behind”. Cluster Lizard: While meditating on the concept of our next album, we listened to the…

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Track: SOM – Animals

After creating a genre that has been described as Doom Pop, SOM have shared their new single ‘Animals’ which is the first single from the quintet’s second album, ‘The Shape…

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Track: Coheed And Cambria – Rise, Naianashe (Cut The Cord)

Coheed and Cambria have shared a new track entitled ‘Rise, Naianasha (Cut The Cord)’ and comes after the bands very sucessful previous single ‘Shoulders’ It’s been almost three years since the bands last…

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Track: Nisa – The Saviour

New York City-based artist, Nisa, will release her second EP, ‘Time To Plant Tears’ on December 2, 2021. This follows on from her self-released EP, Guilt Trip that arrived earlier this year. Born to Albanian immigrants…

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Live review: Billy Bragg, Exeter University, November 11th, 2021: our favourite troubadour of the heart and the people returns to the stage

A PILGRIMAGE of sorts, to see the Bard of Barking, Billy Bragg (although these days it’s the Bard of Bridport, not so many miles east along the Dorset coast); who’s…

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Album Review: Louie Short – Omw 4ev

Toronto / Los Angeles artist Louie Short has giving us an album where “The genre is songs” and where he is the sole creator on this collection of DIY aesthetics. An…

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Film Review: Ascension

China first opened up its economy for foreign investment and started to enact free market reforms at the end of the 1970s. Deng Xiaoping’s modernising agenda has resulted in the…

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News: Thomas Leer and Robert Rental’s cult punk-electro classic ‘The Bridge’ gets a reissue in January; hear ‘Monochrome Days’

NO LESSER a cultural vulture (and someone you’d love to go on an Edinburgh pub crawl with) Ian Rankin says of Thomas Leer and Robert Rental’s cult ’79 album The…

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Track: Cousin Kula bring the chillwave jazz of ‘Something So Sweet’ from the banks of the Avon, with a debut album and dates soon

BRISTOL quintet Cousin Kula ply a line in woozy, chillwave jazz to bliss you out with sophistication, talent and a lazy groove – doubt them not and check out “Something…

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See: Rainy Miller examines the small losses of our everyday in ‘Death At The TV Dinner’

PRESTON’S Rainy Miller roams the Ribbleside Lancashire city, with its proud modernist architecture seeking its tales and bringing them to life with a breakbeat-informed modern pop, full of atmosphere; a…

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Album Review: Cluster Lizard – Star Corsair

Track: SOM – Animals

Track: Coheed And Cambria – Rise, Naianashe (Cut The Cord)

Track: Nisa – The Saviour

Live review: Billy Bragg, Exeter University, November 11th, 2021: our favourite troubadour of the heart and the people returns to the stage

Album Review: Louie Short – Omw 4ev

Film Review: Ascension

News: Thomas Leer and Robert Rental’s cult punk-electro classic ‘The Bridge’ gets a reissue in January; hear ‘Monochrome Days’

Track: Cousin Kula bring the chillwave jazz of ‘Something So Sweet’ from the banks of the Avon, with a debut album and dates soon

See: Rainy Miller examines the small losses of our everyday in ‘Death At The TV Dinner’