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See: Xiu Xiu return with a video for new single ‘A bottle of rum’, featuring Liz Harris

Out via Polyvinyl on March 26th is the new album Xiu Xiu, ‘Oh No’, a collection of duets. From it, the band have released a new video for lead single…

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IFFR Review: La nuit des rois

Storytelling has played a vital role within communities and societies since humans first invented spoken languages. Predating writing, it’s the way that we’ve been able to pass on our histories,…

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IFFR Review: Shorta

Whilst the Black Lives Matter protests rapidly spread across the whole of America in early 2020, they weren’t just limited to one country. The situation within the US is undeniably…

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Track: DJINN release details of new album; hear ‘Love Divine’

AN AMALGAM of Goat and Hills members, two of the multitude of unique, almost fantastical Swedish psych bands, DJINN recently released a new track “Love Divine”, which features on upcoming…

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Premiere: Keep Calm Stay Home reveal the lush electronica of ‘A Theme For…’

Keep Calm Stay Home is the current moniker of London based composer Oli Morgan, a man who’s worked with the likes of Seal, Bastille, Gregory Porter, Princess Nokia, Venom and…

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Meet: Leeds witch-rock duo Faux Machismo, and listen to their new single ‘Artemisia’

We’ve long been in thrall of Leeds’ stoner-witch-doom-rock duo Faux Machismo (even the description makes us shiver with excitement), and they’re releasing their new single Artemisia today, February 5th, via…

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SEE: Andy Bell releases a trippy, solarised video for the lovely ‘Skywalker’

YOU KNOW him so well, of course, as one of the creative forces behind shoegazing legends Ride; and when Andy Bell stepped out from the boys from OX4 last autumn…

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SEE: Conrad Clipper – ‘Say The Name’: enveloping piano textures pave way for April album

CONRAD CLIPPER is the pseudonymous venture of a Berlin composer and multi-instrumentalist who has a focus on prepared, programmed and played piano. He is, as the prepared and programmed element…

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SEE: Departure Lounge – ‘Australia’: Peter Buck joins cult faves for a glorious, jangly nugget

CULT favourites from back when the Nineties became the Noughties, you can’t accuse Departure Lounge of not having ambition on their new single, “Australia” – if that wasn’t enough a…

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TRACK: Ritual Cloak – ‘Opaque Crater’: brooding post-rock soundscapes from Cardiff

CARDIFF duo Ritual Cloak is the meeting of Daniel Barnett, formerly of Samoans, and drummer and producer Andrew Sanders, in which musical space between them they find some pretty beguiling,…

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