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See: On the day of the release of the brilliant album Jupiter 13, Kilbey and Kennedy issues a video for ‘Rendezvous’

Already for me a strong contender for one of the albums of the year, today sees the release of ‘Jupiter 13’, a spectacular album recently reviewed by me for Backseat…

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Album: Maria Chiara Argirò And Jamie Leeming – Flow

Pianist Maria Chiara Argirò and guitarist Jamie Leeming debut album ‘Flow’, combines elements of modern jazz, electronica and contemporary folk music to create an expansive and cinematic sound, they explore…

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NEWS: A Certain Ratio announce EP for May, ‘ACR:EPA’; hear a first track, ‘Wonderland’: the Mancunian funk hot streak continues

THEY’RE on such a hot streak these days; Mancunian fun legends A Certain Ratio have been absolutely on fire, creatively so vivacious and so irresistibly taut, since ACR Loco dropped…

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Film Review: Keep an Eye Out

When Quentin Dupieux made Rubber, he created one of the most unusual, unlikely and offbeat horror films the world has ever seen. It seemed incomprehensible that he could out-strange a…

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See: The Underground Youth – ‘Vergiss Mich Nicht’: the sweet obsession of love chronicled in folk noir

SEEDED in Manchester, reaching full, budding flower in Berlin, which seems an ideal dovetailing of cityscape and soundscape, The Underground Youth have dropped one final single from their forthcoming album, The Falling,…

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Feature / Playlist: Factory Records – A complete Spotify discography

FOLLOWING the success (well, relatively) of our John Peel playlist, in which we compiled all the Festive 50 tracks for every year John ran that feature all in one place…

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Album Review: Colin Cannon delivers a majestic tribute to daily life in ‘McGolrick’

If ever you wanted to impersonate your thoughts during lockdown, this is the album to listen to. Critically acclaimed jazz composer and guitarist Colin Cannon delivers an odyssey of collage…

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See: The video for Matt Emery’s ‘Anxiety Mist’: a samurai waiting for battle as told by solo cello

BRITISH composer Matt Emery, who calls the lovely Injazero Records home, has launched a series of recordings focusing on one instrument at a time; and for his first EP in…

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Track: Sunflower Thieves -‘Don’t Mind The Weather’: a soothing, electronic folk paean to your safe space

AMY ILLINGWORTH and Lily Stury-Bolshaw, the Leeds-based musicians who fashion fine music together as Sunflower Thieves, have shared their new single “Don’t Mind The Weather”, ahead of its release as…

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Penelope Trappes announces final album in her trilogy; hear the sultry electronic noir of ‘Nervous’

BRIGHTON-based, Australian-born mistress of noir electronica, Penelope Trappes, has announced that the concluding album of her Penelope trilogy will be out on her home of the past few years, Houndstooth,…

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See: On the day of the release of the brilliant album Jupiter 13, Kilbey and Kennedy issues a video for ‘Rendezvous’

Album: Maria Chiara Argirò And Jamie Leeming – Flow

NEWS: A Certain Ratio announce EP for May, ‘ACR:EPA’; hear a first track, ‘Wonderland’: the Mancunian funk hot streak continues

Film Review: Keep an Eye Out

See: The Underground Youth – ‘Vergiss Mich Nicht’: the sweet obsession of love chronicled in folk noir

Feature / Playlist: Factory Records – A complete Spotify discography

Album Review: Colin Cannon delivers a majestic tribute to daily life in ‘McGolrick’

See: The video for Matt Emery’s ‘Anxiety Mist’: a samurai waiting for battle as told by solo cello

Track: Sunflower Thieves -‘Don’t Mind The Weather’: a soothing, electronic folk paean to your safe space

Penelope Trappes announces final album in her trilogy; hear the sultry electronic noir of ‘Nervous’