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Album review: Kasai Allstars – ‘Black Ants Always Fly Together, One Bangle Makes No Sound’: maybe more restrained, but still surprises

SOMETIMES a record comes along that disrupts your expectations. Since their debut album in 2008, Kasai Allstars have been one of the cornerstones of Congotronics, that vibrant assemblage of polyrhythms…

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Track: Solidarity Not Silence – This Is Sisterhood ft. Kathleen Hanna, The Tuts, Petrol Girls

Solidarity not Silence is a campaign raising money for the legal costs of a group of women who are fighting a defamation claim made against them, after each of them…

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See: David Devant & His Spirit Wife – ‘Putting My Demons To Bed’: eccentric, theatrical Brighton popsters return with their fourth album in July

CASTING an eye back over the Britpop years, there was a little subset of bands which decided to forego the tracksuits, the bulldogs and the lager to explore the headier…

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Track: Craig John Davidson – ‘Down At Dawn’: a baroque-indie ballad with a delicate centre from the Granite City

BASED in the Granite City, Aberdeen, Craig John Davidson is a singer-songwriter and producer who reveals a softer side to the oil-rich, quartz-heavy surrounds of the city. He’s just released a lovely,…

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Track: Paranoid London – ‘The State Of That’: delectably dark dancefloor banger tees up their new EP

PARANOID LONDON, the shadowy two-piece of Quinn Whalley and Gerardo Delgado, who understand all the right things about what makes dancefloor culture so righteous and necessary and addictive – it…

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Track: Eliza + The Delusionals – Hear spirited new single ‘YOU’ + catch tour with The Vanns in June/July

Breezy Brisbane/Pottsville indie-rockers, Eliza & The Delusionals, make an exciting and welcome return with their latest single, YOU. Fans will also be able to catch the group on tour in…

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See: Horror in Clay – ‘Bring Out Your Dead’: a dark shoegaze grace pervades the first drop from their June cassette EP for MUZAI

IT’S SHIMMERING, it’s languorous, with a classically rousing indie glow, a clicky bass propelling it forward as guitars and keyboards combine in a glitter that’s part shoegazey, part classic-era Chills…

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Film Review: Some Kind of Heaven

Located in central Florida, The Villages is the largest retirement community in the world. On the face of it this shiny happy ‘Disneyland for retirees’ seems like some kind of…

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Track: Camp 8 unveils the absorbing and immersive single ‘Honey’

Camp 8 is New Zealand born, Melbourne resident Reuben Apirana whose voice should be preserved and used for the future good of humanity in some way. It’s medicine for the…

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See: Restless Leg unveils evocative video for ‘The World’s A Room’ and announces tour dates

Last month we premiered the glorious jingle jangle pop of Restless Leg‘s ‘The World’s A Room’: an archetypal antipodean indie rock classic with its lilting melodies and indelible refrain. Now…

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Album review: Kasai Allstars – ‘Black Ants Always Fly Together, One Bangle Makes No Sound’: maybe more restrained, but still surprises

Track: Solidarity Not Silence – This Is Sisterhood ft. Kathleen Hanna, The Tuts, Petrol Girls

See: David Devant & His Spirit Wife – ‘Putting My Demons To Bed’: eccentric, theatrical Brighton popsters return with their fourth album in July

Track: Craig John Davidson – ‘Down At Dawn’: a baroque-indie ballad with a delicate centre from the Granite City

Track: Paranoid London – ‘The State Of That’: delectably dark dancefloor banger tees up their new EP

Track: Eliza + The Delusionals – Hear spirited new single ‘YOU’ + catch tour with The Vanns in June/July

See: Horror in Clay – ‘Bring Out Your Dead’: a dark shoegaze grace pervades the first drop from their June cassette EP for MUZAI

Film Review: Some Kind of Heaven

Track: Camp 8 unveils the absorbing and immersive single ‘Honey’

See: Restless Leg unveils evocative video for ‘The World’s A Room’ and announces tour dates