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PREMIERE: Ben Eisenberger – ‘Soloists’: hear a set of warming folk grace from Omaha tunesmith

Beautiful and drawing respectfully on a number of strands in the wider folk pantheon, Ben's songwriting, arranging talents and his musicianship pull this record into a pretty special place indeed

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SEE: The Underground Youth – ‘A Sorrowful Race’; tenth album in March

BORN in the musical fires of Manchester, currently resident in Berlin, it’s fair to say that there’s a decent dose of proper musical heritage, maybe a little darkness, a willingness…

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Film Review: Dreamland

Following the Wall Street Crash of October 1929, America was thrown into a decade of high unemployment, deflation and widespread poverty. This period came to be known as the Great…

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Blu-Ray Review: Devil in a Blue Dress

Since the late 1980s, Denzel Washington has proven time and time again that he’s one of the best American actors working in cinema today. In 1987, he received his first…

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Say Psych: Album Review: Flying Moon in Space – Ardor

Flying Moon In Space are a seven-piece band from Leipzig, Germany borne out of live improvisations which are known to last for hours at a time. Having clocked-up nearly fifty…

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Say Psych: Interview: Meet the Label – Strong Island Recordings

Neo-Psychedelia has become the fastest growing musical trend, and the genre that everyone who wants to be associated with. With that in mind, it’s easy to forget that it is…

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TRACK: Becca Mancari – ‘I’m Sorry’

HAZY music is indeed the trademark of Captured Tracks, so that Becca Mancari has made another turn towards an increasingly layered Americana for her debut with the label is no…

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SEE: Cabbage – ‘Get Outta My Brain’: wired weird gets the visuals

BETTER late than never, as the old adage goes. Mossley’s art-guitar bandits Cabbage came for us back in the heady, high summer days of August with “Get Outta My Brain”,…

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SEE: Jeremy Tuplin – ‘Night And Day’; new EP this Bandcamp Friday

DEEP THINKER and arch psych-folkster around town Jeremy Tuplin is releasing a new EP, entitled Happiness, this Bandcamp Friday, December 11th, which is sure to be a quartet of insouciant…

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SEE: Oya Paya – ‘Focus’: a slacker-pop winter warmer

IF YOU like a bit of bouncy slacker rock, all loose, chantalong lyrics primed for some Converse-meets-dancefloor action, with guitars scrappy and all about the downstroke and fun, then wrap…

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PREMIERE: Ben Eisenberger – ‘Soloists’: hear a set of warming folk grace from Omaha tunesmith

SEE: The Underground Youth – ‘A Sorrowful Race’; tenth album in March

Film Review: Dreamland

Blu-Ray Review: Devil in a Blue Dress

Say Psych: Album Review: Flying Moon in Space – Ardor

Say Psych: Interview: Meet the Label – Strong Island Recordings

TRACK: Becca Mancari – ‘I’m Sorry’

SEE: Cabbage – ‘Get Outta My Brain’: wired weird gets the visuals

SEE: Jeremy Tuplin – ‘Night And Day’; new EP this Bandcamp Friday

SEE: Oya Paya – ‘Focus’: a slacker-pop winter warmer