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Album review: Adam Stafford – ‘Trophic Asynchrony’: Falkirk composer moves to a deep, cyclical set of formal minimalism to address the ecological state we’re in

FALKIRK’S Adam Stafford, the film-maker and folk artist whose lockdown notebook album Diamonds Of A Horse Famine we warmly embraced here last summer – not least because it contained the…

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With his debut solo album just a fortnight away, Cameron Knowler invites us to contemplation in ‘Kuyina’

WITH HIS two-hander album with Eli Winter, Anticipation, an excellent study in guitar primitivism, just three months behind us in the rear-view mirror, Texas acoustic explorer is just a fortnight…

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See: Devendra Banhart and Noah Goergeson unveil an expansive, meditative ‘Refuge’ double set for August; come float within ‘Into Clouds’ and ‘In A Cistern’

THEIR first meeting may have been entirely inauspicious – the one enquiring of the other whether in fact he was, indeed, a French drug dealer – but once that initial…

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Track: Bellatrix fashions toxic romance into alt.pop silk with ‘Bad Love’

SHE’S got one of those brilliantly tonally expressive voices, which skips up and down the register with easy fluidity, flowing through the notes in the way Bjork does; but then,…

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See: Lucid Express wrap a fleeting romance in the shoegaze bliss of ‘Hotel 65’

THE HONG KONG shoegaze quintet Lucid Express have tapped into the beautiful blur of that genre at its finest as a safe and exhilarating space away from the continuing political upheaval,…

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SEE: LIP TALK glories in the angelic modular flight of ‘Solar Return’ – psychedelic synthpop as it always should be

FLYING high, flying free, with an absolutely gorgeous line in glittery, psychedelic synthpop, LIP TALK – the musical avatar of New Yorker Sarah K Pedinotti – has returned to the…

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Album Review: Maple Glider’s ‘To Enjoy is the Only Thing’ is a breathtaking debut filled with an exquisite sense of longing and beauty

Maple Glider – the moniker of Melbourne resident Tori Zietsch – has a voice and delivery that is like someone whispering softly in your ear: it’s close and warm and…

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Premiere: Etai surveys an era of turbulence and unrest on ‘Summer of Ghosts’

Etai Fuchs (also of Baltimore band Moon By Moon) released his debut solo album Bloodletting in January of last year, a skeletal gem that could have passed for a live…

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Album Review: Supermilk – ‘Four By Three’

Born from an abundance of writing amid the restrictions placed on individuals by the coronavirus pandemic, Jake Popyura, AKA Supermilk, started writing and demoing songs on a regular basis as…

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Track: Leprous – Running Low

Norwegian Rock outfit Leprous have released their first single ‘Running Low’ taken from their upcoming studio album ‘Aphelion’, out 27th August 2021 via InsideOut Music. Vocalist/keyboardist Einar Solberg comments: “The…

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Album review: Adam Stafford – ‘Trophic Asynchrony’: Falkirk composer moves to a deep, cyclical set of formal minimalism to address the ecological state we’re in

With his debut solo album just a fortnight away, Cameron Knowler invites us to contemplation in ‘Kuyina’

See: Devendra Banhart and Noah Goergeson unveil an expansive, meditative ‘Refuge’ double set for August; come float within ‘Into Clouds’ and ‘In A Cistern’

Track: Bellatrix fashions toxic romance into alt.pop silk with ‘Bad Love’

See: Lucid Express wrap a fleeting romance in the shoegaze bliss of ‘Hotel 65’

SEE: LIP TALK glories in the angelic modular flight of ‘Solar Return’ – psychedelic synthpop as it always should be

Album Review: Maple Glider’s ‘To Enjoy is the Only Thing’ is a breathtaking debut filled with an exquisite sense of longing and beauty

Premiere: Etai surveys an era of turbulence and unrest on ‘Summer of Ghosts’

Album Review: Supermilk – ‘Four By Three’

Track: Leprous – Running Low