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See: LIP TALK – ‘More’: our craving, craven world captured in psychedelic synth pop

SARAH K PEDINOTTI is the living, breathing Brooklyn-based human behind the glam-psych-pop stylings of LIP TALK, who’s just dropped the video for the glitteringly trippy “More” – and we’ve got…

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See: The halcyon dream pop bliss of Requin Chagrin’s ‘Fou’ comes with added motorcycle GP glamour

REQUIN CHAGRIN is a multifaceted creative guising of Marion Brunetto, who’s an author and multi-instrumentalist with an ear for blissful beauty, for sure. A well-received, eponymous debut emerged in 2015,…

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See: The Spanish lyric video for the otherly beauty of Oneohtrix Point Never & ROSALÍA’s drifting ‘Nothing’s Special’

IT ALL began with a few casually posted photos on socials, showing Barcelonian cantante ROSALÍA in the studio with first posted casual studio photos with Daniel Lopatin, better known as…

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EP Review: Second Idol’s ‘Defence Mechanisms’ is satisfyingly powerful indie rock with a heart, plus tour news

‘Defence Mechanisms’, the powerful EP by Sydney band Second Idol, is a solid, grounded guitar-driven indie rock’n’roll gem filled with memorable riffs, a hard unapologetic rough hewn edge and scintillating…

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Album Review: BSÍ’s doubled edged ‘Sometimes depressed…but always anti-fascist’ is a dream pop delight with some serrated edges.

There are two sides to this story: Icelandic duo BSÍ have released an album of two sides in ‘Sometimes depressed…but always antifascist’. Side one – sometimes depressed – is a…

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Album Review: CLUSTERSUN’s Avalanche is a magnificent, mesmerising and eviscerating piece of gothic shoegaze magic

‘Avalanche’, the new album from Italian shoegaze behemoths, CLUSTERSUN, clearly sets out its sonic intent from the very beginning. ‘Desert Daze’ is an aural buzzsaw, tilting along a thundering rhythm…

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Album review: Yoo Doo Right – ‘Don’t Think You Can Escape Your Purpose’: fiendishly enthralling and focused

BEGINNING in 2016, Montréal’s Yoo Doo Right have strewn the experimental music world lavishly with fervent, heavenly jams: heavily akin to their eponymous krautrock forefathers, also stirring in a heady…

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Film Review: Two Lottery Tickets

If you urgently need to raise a large sum of money, what do you do? You might have friends who could lend you it but it’s unlikely that they’ll have…

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Premiere: Irish electronic trio Phraktal reveal new track, Kruschonk

Dublin trio Phraktal cam to the fore with their cover of Orbital’s classic Chime, which scored them a #3 spot in the 2019 progressive grouse chart on Beatport, but now…

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See: Michael League – ‘In Your Mouth’: Snarky Puppy and Bokanté founder unveils a solo rock-pop sophistication

FOUR Grammys under his belt, founder member of frontier-free jazz-rock-world-funk ensemble Snarky Puppy and world-blues outfit Bokanté; musical director for, and collaborator with, one of the true greats, David Crosby;…

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See: LIP TALK – ‘More’: our craving, craven world captured in psychedelic synth pop

See: The halcyon dream pop bliss of Requin Chagrin’s ‘Fou’ comes with added motorcycle GP glamour

See: The Spanish lyric video for the otherly beauty of Oneohtrix Point Never & ROSALÍA’s drifting ‘Nothing’s Special’

EP Review: Second Idol’s ‘Defence Mechanisms’ is satisfyingly powerful indie rock with a heart, plus tour news

Album Review: BSÍ’s doubled edged ‘Sometimes depressed…but always anti-fascist’ is a dream pop delight with some serrated edges.

Album Review: CLUSTERSUN’s Avalanche is a magnificent, mesmerising and eviscerating piece of gothic shoegaze magic

Album review: Yoo Doo Right – ‘Don’t Think You Can Escape Your Purpose’: fiendishly enthralling and focused

Film Review: Two Lottery Tickets

Premiere: Irish electronic trio Phraktal reveal new track, Kruschonk

See: Michael League – ‘In Your Mouth’: Snarky Puppy and Bokanté founder unveils a solo rock-pop sophistication