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Album Review: Quivers unveil the epic, jangling, melancholy indie pop masterpiece of ‘Golden Doubt’ and announce Australia-wide tour.

Starting in the tiny southern capital of Hobart at the edge of the world before moving, as bands often do, to Melbourne, Quivers have caught global attention with their unique…

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Sheffield Doc/Fest Review – 9/11: One Day in America

I’d argue that we can define modern history as the period before and after September 11th 2001. Anyone waking up on that Tuesday morning would never have believed the events…

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Sheffield Doc/Fest Review: My Childhood, My Country – 20 Years in Afghanistan

The first rule of documentary filmmaking is to never get involved. To observe your subject objectively and not interfere with the events taking place on screen. This often throws up…

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See: Matt Evans’ ‘Firn’, an evocation of geology, loss, piano and violin wound in tape decay, comes abstracted with VR visuals

THE LOSS of a life partner, an intimate; for many of us an unimaginable experience, and one that words would fail to convey, either in the expression of or the…

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Album review: Peace Flag Ensemble – ‘Noteland’: intelligent, warm and melodic jazz improv from Canadian collective

LADIES and gentlemen of the more recherché musical persuasion: introducing a new act to especially intrigue the weird jazzers among you, Peace Flag Ensemble, an experimental collective drawn from various…

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See: Adam Stafford – ‘Threnody For February Swallows’: grand avant-classical minimalism cautions against climate change

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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News: Leprous announce new album; watch video for track Castaway Angels

Norwegian rock outfit Leprous have announced the release of their new album ‘Aphelion’ due 27th August via InsideOut Music. Pre-orders will start on 25th June. Leprous vocalist/keyboardist Einar Solberg checked…

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Track: Cameron Knowler – ‘Lena’s Spanish Fandango’: a tender and plaintive Americana air

TEXAN solo guitar practitioner and melodicist Cameron Knowler – whose lovely, exploratory album with Eli Winter, Anticipation, we fully embraced in early March – has announced he’s to unveil his…

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Sheffield Doc/Fest Review: The Story of Looking

To say Mark Cousins loves film would be an understatement, to say the least. The former host of Moviedrome went on to create the definitive history of film in The…

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See: LIP TALK takes a dayglo synthpop brush to endless consumerism on ‘Bargain Day’

SARAH K. PEDINOTTI, the Brooklyn experimental popster who guises as LIP TALK, and who we last saw see-sawing twixt sin and virtue on the psychedelic synthpop of “More”, has dropped…

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Album Review: Quivers unveil the epic, jangling, melancholy indie pop masterpiece of ‘Golden Doubt’ and announce Australia-wide tour.

Sheffield Doc/Fest Review – 9/11: One Day in America

Sheffield Doc/Fest Review: My Childhood, My Country – 20 Years in Afghanistan

See: Matt Evans’ ‘Firn’, an evocation of geology, loss, piano and violin wound in tape decay, comes abstracted with VR visuals

Album review: Peace Flag Ensemble – ‘Noteland’: intelligent, warm and melodic jazz improv from Canadian collective

See: Adam Stafford – ‘Threnody For February Swallows’: grand avant-classical minimalism cautions against climate change

News: Leprous announce new album; watch video for track Castaway Angels

Track: Cameron Knowler – ‘Lena’s Spanish Fandango’: a tender and plaintive Americana air

Sheffield Doc/Fest Review: The Story of Looking

See: LIP TALK takes a dayglo synthpop brush to endless consumerism on ‘Bargain Day’