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News: Colin Moulding (XTC) announces release of his first solo CD – the delightfully pastoral pop of ‘The Hardest Battle’

It’s been over 3 years since ex XTC singer/bass player Colin Moulding teamed up with ex-XTC drummer Terry Chambers under the moniker TC&I to record the brilliant EP ‘Great Aspirations’…

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Track: SILT unveil the cool indie pop of ‘I Always Need A Break’

With a delicious interplay between rippling synths and razor sharp guitars, Melbourne-based band SILT‘s new track ‘I Always Need A Break’ is a singular delight. There is a smooth laid-back…

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Track: Fabian Secon Debuts Thrilling Pop-Punk Single “Hey Girl”

Quick-rising UK artist Fabian Secon is back this week with his latest single, “Hey Girl”. The London-born singer has been going from strength to strength over the past few years…

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Track: Hungary’s globetrotting Àbáse reveal the swinging Afrobeat of ‘Agangatolou’ ahead of a November album

MUSICIANS are often instinctive travellers, globetrotters and border-hoppers, crossing continents in the search of new vibrations and reference points. You can bet that Hungarian pianist and producer Szabolcs Bognár sees…

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Track: Selbor reveals a Hot Chip remix of his July disco groove ‘Your Love’ to lure you to the floor

ANDALUCIAN born, but resident amongst the bright lights and grooves of London now for more than a decade and a half, Selbor knows how to bring not just a singular,…

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Album review: Fuzzy Lights – ‘Burials’: Cambridge psych-folk prodigals grow a faerie ring of psych-folk, post-rock and more to lay your troubled bones within

IT’S BEEN all of eight years now since Cambridgeshire post-folk collective Fuzzy Lights have graced our ears with an album, that being Rule Of Twelfths; but the planets have aligned…

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Scratch the Surface: Urusei Yatsura – We are Urusei Yatsura (1996, Ché Records)

If you long for those messy days of the mid-90s, where Glasgow seemed to be a melting pot of angular, noisey, and messy indie rock and roll and pop punk,…

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Album review: Tashaki Miyaki – ‘Castaway’: LA dream poppers embrace a West Coast pop-glamour hush

LOS ANGELINO trio Tashaki Miyaki really do put the dream into dreampop, with a deliciously languorous, hazy cast to their music, which seems to call on the Mary Chain, Lush,…

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Track: The Vogs release the glorious 60s influenced French soul of Cette Lettre Là and Pour que tu ne m’oublies pas

French Soul crew The Vogs have returned with a new line up, and a couple of new tracks – both out now on digital and glorious 7inch vinyl via the…

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Film Review – WITCH: We Intend to Cause Havoc

It’s not something you’d probably ever think about but in most of the English-speaking Western world we’re very myopic when it comes to the range of music we listen to.…

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News: Colin Moulding (XTC) announces release of his first solo CD – the delightfully pastoral pop of ‘The Hardest Battle’

Track: SILT unveil the cool indie pop of ‘I Always Need A Break’

Track: Fabian Secon Debuts Thrilling Pop-Punk Single “Hey Girl”

Track: Hungary’s globetrotting Àbáse reveal the swinging Afrobeat of ‘Agangatolou’ ahead of a November album

Track: Selbor reveals a Hot Chip remix of his July disco groove ‘Your Love’ to lure you to the floor

Album review: Fuzzy Lights – ‘Burials’: Cambridge psych-folk prodigals grow a faerie ring of psych-folk, post-rock and more to lay your troubled bones within

Scratch the Surface: Urusei Yatsura – We are Urusei Yatsura (1996, Ché Records)

Album review: Tashaki Miyaki – ‘Castaway’: LA dream poppers embrace a West Coast pop-glamour hush

Track: The Vogs release the glorious 60s influenced French soul of Cette Lettre Là and Pour que tu ne m’oublies pas

Film Review – WITCH: We Intend to Cause Havoc