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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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Track: Tuvaband’s ‘Post Isolation’ has a post-Cocteaus dreamy grace

TUVABAND is the dreamlike solo project of Norwegian singer, songwriter, and producer, Tuva Hellum Marschhäuser, whose third full-length offering to the world, Growing Pains & Pleasures, will out in the…

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Film Review: Come True

Anyone who has ever suffered from sleep-related problems, such as insomnia, sleep apnoea or night terrors, knows just how precious sleep is. However, we have all, at one time or…

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Track: Dear Doonan’s new single ‘Papaya’ is a scintillating slice of world music

‘Papaya’s is a fascinating new single from the Sunshine Coast (Queensland) band Dear Doonan – it has a world music tone delivered in a mostly instrumental bed with a melodic…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Track: Tuvaband’s ‘Post Isolation’ has a post-Cocteaus dreamy grace

Film Review: Come True

Track: Dear Doonan’s new single ‘Papaya’ is a scintillating slice of world music