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Album review: GoGo Penguin – ‘GGP/RMX’: deus ex Mancunia as the jazz trio take the remixes album to new heights

THE EXCELLENT, leftfield Mancunian trio GoGo Penguin, who work out in the truly creative zones where dancefloor and intelligence and jazz bump into each other, decided they could be lifelong…

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Album review: TEKE::TEKE – ‘Shirushi’: a deliciously wonky, delectably trippy psych debut

RULE one: Japanese bands do brilliant, brilliant things with guitars: this is just fact. From the mind-blowing chaos of Melt-Banana to the heavy psych stylings of Acid Mothers Temple and…

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See: The lyric video for the cosmic Americana pop drop of Lou Barlow’s ‘Love Intervene’

WITH a first solo album in nigh on six years just cusping the horizon – it’s called Reason to Live, it’ll be out at the end of the month on Joyful Noise Recordings,…

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News: Chemical Brothers release ‘The Darkness That You Fear’: Will headline Creamfields this year

The Chemical Brothers have released their first new music in two years – single The Darkness That You Fear – along with exciting news that they’ve been confirmed as 2021…

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Track: Melbourne’s Oceans unveils the shimmering track ‘Break My Fall’ and announces the release of EP and launch

Melbournite Thomas Lee works under the name Oceans and his new single ‘Break My Fall’ is an immersive and delicious track with subtle switches between a shoegaze drone and a…

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News: Villagers announce new album and share video for triumphant, endorphin-releasing single ‘The First Day’

Villagers can do no wrong in my very humble opinion. They are one of the few bands where you know that their new music is always going to be emotionally…

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Say Psych: Album Review: Alan Vega – Mutator

Sacred Bones Records have recently released the lost album from Alan Vega, Mutator. Vega’s name is synonymous with unfettered creativity, from the late 1950s, through his years playing in Suicide, and all the way up until…

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Album Reviews

Album Review: Otooto – smooth Danish jazz grooves with ‘This Love is For You’

When it comes to top-notch conservatoires where fusing classical training into jazz intersect, Denmark, and I would venture the Netherlands, hold a strong reputation for supporting that kind of nuanced…

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Album review: Dragon Welding – ‘The Lights Behind The Eyes’: a new ambient folk for a beleaguered island from The Wolfhounds’ six-string sufi

IF YOU consider yourself a fan of great British guitar music and you haven’t investigated the canon of East London-Essex borderlands’ The Wolfhounds, then jeez, do you ever need to…

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EP Review: Italian shoegaze outfit 7Mondays release sky-scraping debut EP ‘Sent’

Italian duo 7Mondays have just released their debut EP ‘Sent’: a collection of three songs that draw strongly on a shoegaze sound tempered with a touch of emo and post…

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Album review: GoGo Penguin – ‘GGP/RMX’: deus ex Mancunia as the jazz trio take the remixes album to new heights

Album review: TEKE::TEKE – ‘Shirushi’: a deliciously wonky, delectably trippy psych debut

See: The lyric video for the cosmic Americana pop drop of Lou Barlow’s ‘Love Intervene’

News: Chemical Brothers release ‘The Darkness That You Fear’: Will headline Creamfields this year

Track: Melbourne’s Oceans unveils the shimmering track ‘Break My Fall’ and announces the release of EP and launch

News: Villagers announce new album and share video for triumphant, endorphin-releasing single ‘The First Day’

Say Psych: Album Review: Alan Vega – Mutator

Album Review: Otooto – smooth Danish jazz grooves with ‘This Love is For You’

Album review: Dragon Welding – ‘The Lights Behind The Eyes’: a new ambient folk for a beleaguered island from The Wolfhounds’ six-string sufi

EP Review: Italian shoegaze outfit 7Mondays release sky-scraping debut EP ‘Sent’