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EP: Hallucination reveal the destructive Hardcore punk of Hallucination EP

Destructive, defiant, devious, and D-beat – Philadelphia’s Hallucination take a smashing first step with their self-titled EP consisting of five songs (including the 37 second intro track) that stake their…

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Track: Stephen Fretwell returns with the beautifully restrained ‘Oval’

It’s been quite a while for Stephen Fretwell. As one of the people who adored his much lauded debut Magpie, and it’s follow up – 2007’s Man on the Roof,…

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See: St. Vincent releases new video for ‘Pay Your Way In Pain’, along with new album details

Annie Clark, aka St. Vincent has revealed details of her forthcoming sixth album Daddy’s Home. The nitty gritty of it all is that its out May 14, 2021 on Loma Vista Recordings. You…

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News: Mdou Moctar set to release a new album for Matador; hear ‘Tala Tannam’

MDOU MOCTAR is at last gathering momentum. Still, it’s been an epic journey since 2008 when his raw, emotional guitar music first began to spread across West Africa via the…

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Track: Jordan Merrick – ‘This Rainy Day’: sweet Americana to curl up inside

BRISBANE folkie Jordan Merrick has capturing hearts a while now; and it’s a dead cert he’ll capture a few more with the warming campfire Americana of “This Rainy Day”, which…

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Track: Renée Reed – ‘Neboj’: mysterious verdancy from rising Louisiana folk chanteuse

WE’RE just a fortnight, a little more, away from the release of Renée Reed’s self-titled debut album, one on which she reveals a mysterious, perfumed songwriting aesthetic, steeped in the…

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Track: Lisel + Booker Stardrum – ‘In The Dome’: fractured, space-age experimental pop

ELIZA BEGG, the vocalist and composer who guises as Lisel musically, and electronica creator and percussionist Booker Stardrum, have been friends a long time, circulating in each other’s musical orbit.…

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Track: Bleach Lab – ‘Flood’; a final shoegaze shimmer ahead of their debut EP

FIRST things first: we’ve got a bit of a crush on Bleach Lab. The Buckinghamshire dreampop outfit fronted by Jenna Kyle who now call South London home have just dropped…

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See: New lyric video for Oasis b-side Step Out, to celebrate Don’t Look Back in Anger’s 25th year

Overshadowed by the pantomime of the main protagonists, it’s easy to forget that, at one time, Oasis were a genuinely exciting band. By way of a little crack in the…

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See: the video for the supernatural psych-folk of Nainnoh’s ‘Colors’

NEW YORK-based Nainnoh has a particularly supernatural way with psychedelic folk, perhaps casting herself in a lineage that casts back to Dr. John, Buffy Saint-Marie, Espers and others. There’s something…

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