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EP REVIEW: Blanketman’s ‘National Trust’ – A Northern state of mind

MANCHESTER indie-pop and post-punk outfit Blanketman have come a long way since their early years. A band that has created a hard-earned and well-deserved name for themselves after performing extensively…

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Track and EP News: Tommy Ashby and Lydia Clowes – Happy Just to Know

Scottish singer-songwriter, Tommy Ashby has released his duet with Lydia Clowes, ‘Happy Just To Know’. It’s out via Wow & Flutter Records and is the first single from his new…

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Track: Sam Genovese – ‘Signals For Signs’: ambience with a ceremonial concept ahead of April’s album

“SIGNALS FOR SIGNS” is a hard cut to horns heralding and welcoming the euphoria of the new. “The music invokes the sound of a union, not unlike a marriage ceremony.…

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Track: Hainbach -‘Funktionsverlust’: Cold War-era technology sings its dying drone song

BERLIN’S Hainbach, the avatar for the world of the sonic and the aural which Stefan Goetsch comes out to invent under, is all set to release a new investigation of…

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Track: duendita reveals the incredible Open Eyes as part of Mexican Summer’s Looking Glass series

Released as part of Mexican Summer’s ongoing Looking Glass series, which focuses on the human condition and is bathed in collaboration, discovery and diversity, Open Eyes is the new single…

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See: The Catenary Wires reveal new video to accompany single, Mirrorball; get an early peek here

We’ve covered the track earlier, here, so let’s cover the facts, just to be clear. Amelia Fletcher and Rob Pursey, aka The Catenary Wires, following a track record that features…

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Album review: Deniz Cuylan – ‘No Such Thing As Free Will’: a pastoral instrumental guitar gem

No Such Thing As Free Will is a much prettier and more enveloping record than words can convey; it has a really nice poise between the disciplines of the leftfield, the guitar soli and that of bright folk melody. In this regard if you're a fan of early to mid-period James Blackshaw, but also very much the quartet of 'free folk' albums Stockholm's Andreas Söderström released as ASS in the decade from 2006, you'll find an awful lot to love. A bright, studious, harmonic, pastoral gem

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Track: Nicky Elisabeth reveals new single, the gorgeous techno of Celeste

Despite the lack of dancefloor action, other than in our own kitchens, front rooms and gardens, there’s still some incredible music being released with a new track from Kompakt stable…

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Track: Martin Gore reveals mesmerising ANNA remix of Howler

Speech Mode mainstay Martin Gore has recently released his new EP The Third Chimpanzee, on the ever brilliant Mute Records. Howler, taken from the release, has now been remixed by…

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Track: Chaz Knapp – ’97F At 9PM’: The Texas heat captured in off-centre organ drune

CHAZ KNAPP, the Dallas-based lo-fi organ frontiersman whose previous single drop, the warm ‘n’ weird “My TMJ Pain Might Be An Abscess” and accompanying blood-soaked video we fell down the…

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EP REVIEW: Blanketman’s ‘National Trust’ – A Northern state of mind

Track and EP News: Tommy Ashby and Lydia Clowes – Happy Just to Know

Track: Sam Genovese – ‘Signals For Signs’: ambience with a ceremonial concept ahead of April’s album

Track: Hainbach -‘Funktionsverlust’: Cold War-era technology sings its dying drone song

Track: duendita reveals the incredible Open Eyes as part of Mexican Summer’s Looking Glass series

See: The Catenary Wires reveal new video to accompany single, Mirrorball; get an early peek here

Album review: Deniz Cuylan – ‘No Such Thing As Free Will’: a pastoral instrumental guitar gem

Track: Nicky Elisabeth reveals new single, the gorgeous techno of Celeste

Track: Martin Gore reveals mesmerising ANNA remix of Howler

Track: Chaz Knapp – ’97F At 9PM’: The Texas heat captured in off-centre organ drune