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Album review: The Sonder Bombs – Clothbound

The zest that comes through the speakers throughout this album is paramount to its success. It's a joy to listen to. Bear witness to a band harnessing the power of live performance into an album of real skill and capability

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See: The Reds, Pinks and Purples reveal new video for ‘Don’t Ever Pray In The Church on My Street’

Here’s some news to help everyone countdown the days until spring time. The Reds, Pinks and Purples are due to deliver a new album ‘Uncommon Weather’ on April 9th via…

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TRACK: Field Works – ‘La’ali’: Arabic poetry and cosmic Americana preludes ninth instalment in the series

FIELD WORKS is less a band, more a collective exploration of the various musics that cross over and find each other out on the edges of their respective stylistic disciplines,…

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Film Review: Mirai

There’s nothing that can prepare you for having children. Whilst a firstborn is a brand-new and exciting experience for everyone involved, the second child can prove to be a trickier…

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Album Review: Black Country, New Road- For the first Time

FURNISHING a burgeoning buzz from just two singles – albeit uniquely abrasive, jazz/noise flecked singles- and a feverish clamour for their live shows, Cambridge’s Black Country, New Road quickly set…

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Track: Able Raise The Cain share a sonically huge track – Baptism Of Fire

Indie rock band Able Raise The Cain are set to release their first track of the year with the huge sounding ‘Baptism Of Fire’ Regarding the release the band comments:…

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TRACK: Clap Your Hands Say Yeah – ‘CYHSY 2005’; he’s playing a live-stream show tonight

WITH a rousing, sometimes raging, tour-de-force of an album, New Fragility, out in a couple of weeks, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah have one final come-hither to drop, the retrospection of…

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ALBUM REVIEW: Madlib – ‘Sound Ancestors’: beats genii’s wide-eyed, wide-open odyssey

Madlib's Sound Ancestors, produced by Four Tet, is the beats genii's wide-eyed, wide-open odyssey. Like a fractal pattern, the deeper you focus and the more you pull out, the more you see

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SEE: Lost Horizons feat. Marissa Nadler – ‘Marie’: honeyed sorrow from Bella Union

THE NEW album from Lost Horizons, the project of Cocteau Twins’ Simon Raymonde and Richie Thomas, formerly of 4AD label mates Dif Juz, is a hugely ambitious affair. Not only…

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TRACK: Paris Youth Foundation – ‘The Back Seat’: reaching out for that old flame with stirring guitars

GEARING up for a 2020 round of the festivals in which their music is readymade for cans and arms aloft, Liverpool’s Paris Youth Foundation watched the whole circuit vanish in…

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Album review: The Sonder Bombs – Clothbound

See: The Reds, Pinks and Purples reveal new video for ‘Don’t Ever Pray In The Church on My Street’

TRACK: Field Works – ‘La’ali’: Arabic poetry and cosmic Americana preludes ninth instalment in the series

Film Review: Mirai

Album Review: Black Country, New Road- For the first Time

Track: Able Raise The Cain share a sonically huge track – Baptism Of Fire

TRACK: Clap Your Hands Say Yeah – ‘CYHSY 2005’; he’s playing a live-stream show tonight

ALBUM REVIEW: Madlib – ‘Sound Ancestors’: beats genii’s wide-eyed, wide-open odyssey

SEE: Lost Horizons feat. Marissa Nadler – ‘Marie’: honeyed sorrow from Bella Union

TRACK: Paris Youth Foundation – ‘The Back Seat’: reaching out for that old flame with stirring guitars