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EP Review: Crossfire Eagles – ‘Major Arcana’: New seven-track release from Sheffield indie rockers

There’s a moment in BBC 4’s ‘Smashing Hits! The 80s Pop Map of Britain and Ireland’ when some old boy talks about how you could walk down any street in…

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NEWS: Ólafur Arnalds announces details of short film, ‘When We Are Born’; watch the trailer

ICELAND’S modern compositional phenomenon Ólafur Arnalds has announced details of a new short film, entitled When We Are Born, which is set to premiere worldwide on March 7th. You can watch the…

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SEE: Cory Hanson – ‘Pale Horse Rider’: the album’s delayed, but it’s so worth the wait

AS HIS second solo album for Drag City approaches, LA’s Cory Hanson – Wand frontman and on his own clock, potent (and a little dark) psych-country explorer, has released a…

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Premiere: J. Chambers releases the brilliant Sirens feat. Dei.3avu

Taken from his forthcoming EP ‘Escape the Kingdom’, a work concerned with being Black and British and out on 26th, ‘Sirens’ is the new single from Manchester poet and hip-hop…

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Premiere: Third Culture Kings release new single/video for Lucid Dreamer

Third Culture Kings are a Copenhagen/NYC duo featuring former dälek man Alap Momin plus Jan Johansen of Glorybox and Ring Them Bells. Describing what they do as Womb music, they…

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NEWS: World of Echo to release Mosquitoes 10″ – come bathe in the no wave dub of ‘Strobeluck’

LONDON label World of Echo, the fledgling imprint which has emerged from the rather excellent record emporium of that name on Columbia Road, E2, has announced the second release in…

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TRACK: Field Works – ‘Ḥalaqah ’Azaliyyah’: a beyond-pretty exploration of Americana and Arabic poetry

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, fuse,…

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SEE: Karate, Guns & Tanning – ‘Graffiti Children’: deliciously hazy dreampop with sharp edges

THE VIRAL world we’re all slowly swimming through, occasionally dashed on the rocks of what the fuck? means we’ve all made adjustments, remote learning, collaborating, working – which, as luck…

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Blu-ray Review: Breeder

Dating back to the great civilisation of Mesopotamia and documented in the Epic of Gilgamesh, the elixir of life has continually occupied the minds of man. The goal of harnessing…

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Finnish folk metal band Korpiklaani’s new album Jylhä! has been released and in celebration, the band have produced another gorgeous music video for the song Tuuleton. Frontman Jonne said about Jylhä: “This is the most…

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EP Review: Crossfire Eagles – ‘Major Arcana’: New seven-track release from Sheffield indie rockers

NEWS: Ólafur Arnalds announces details of short film, ‘When We Are Born’; watch the trailer

SEE: Cory Hanson – ‘Pale Horse Rider’: the album’s delayed, but it’s so worth the wait

Premiere: J. Chambers releases the brilliant Sirens feat. Dei.3avu

Premiere: Third Culture Kings release new single/video for Lucid Dreamer

NEWS: World of Echo to release Mosquitoes 10″ – come bathe in the no wave dub of ‘Strobeluck’

TRACK: Field Works – ‘Ḥalaqah ’Azaliyyah’: a beyond-pretty exploration of Americana and Arabic poetry

SEE: Karate, Guns & Tanning – ‘Graffiti Children’: deliciously hazy dreampop with sharp edges

Blu-ray Review: Breeder

Track: Korpiklaani – Tuuleton