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Album Review: Hen Ogledd – Free Humans

Once again they come from the north-Hen Ogledd, time travelling space pop troubadours with music of weird and wonky magic. Originally the brainchild of folk experimentalist/indie anti-hero Richard Dawson and…

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ALBUM REVIEW: Hugar – ‘Music For The Motion Picture The Vasulka Effect’: graceful ambience for art documentary

HUGAR is the exploratory Icelandic music project of Bergur Þórisson and Pétur Jónsson, a pair of talented musicians hailing from Seltjarnarnes, which rejoices in the fact it’s the smallest town…

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ALBUM REVIEW: The Heliocentrics – ‘Telemetric Sounds’: trippy as hell Afro-psych grooves

THE HELIOCENTRICS have been working away on a rarified astral plane of musical fusion for more than a decade and a half now – and frankly, if you’re a crate-digger…

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ALBUM REVIEW: Kris Drever – ‘Where The World Is Thin’: a fine, open and wise set from Orcadian folk star

IF YOU’RE a gig veteran, whichever your chosen poison in terms of bands or genres, I bet you can in one sphere break down your gig experiences thus. Some bands…

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Track: Pierce Brothers release single Dentist and announce news of European tour

The Pierce Brothers have a history of writing affecting and passionate indie/folk songs that somehow manage to capture an essence of Australiana: the remote outback, the desert sand and the…

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Film Review: Eternal Beauty

Despite being nominated for two Academy Awards, Sally Hawkins is one of Britain’s most under-appreciated actors. Whilst those turns in The Shape of Water and Blue Jasmine were both brilliant,…

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News: Embrace Get Their First Vinyl Reissues For Albums ‘Out Of Nothing’ And ‘This New Day’

Embrace, one of the most successful UK bands of the ’90s and ’00s, are set to reissue their chart-topping albums Out of Nothing and This New Day for the first time on 180-gram vinyl this…

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Compilation: New Horizons – A Bristol Jazz Sound

Bristolian promoters Worm Disco Club have been championing South-Western talent since their inception in 2014 and since have become synonymous with quality groove laden goodness, percussive madness, jazz, psych and…

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TRACK: Strange Bones feat. Bob Vylan – ‘Menace’

BLACKPOOL punk legends Strange Bones have released a brand new cracker of a single, ‘Menace’. ‘Menace’ is the result of the anger and frustration resulting from lockdown. The night before…

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TRACK: A Lily – ‘Slept Through The Storm’: complex minimalism for a dark time

JAMES VELLA is, like the rest of us, concerned with the horrifically dark period we’re living through right now: the anxiety, the mental privations. The storm. We all need to…

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Album Review: Hen Ogledd – Free Humans

ALBUM REVIEW: Hugar – ‘Music For The Motion Picture The Vasulka Effect’: graceful ambience for art documentary

ALBUM REVIEW: The Heliocentrics – ‘Telemetric Sounds’: trippy as hell Afro-psych grooves

ALBUM REVIEW: Kris Drever – ‘Where The World Is Thin’: a fine, open and wise set from Orcadian folk star

Track: Pierce Brothers release single Dentist and announce news of European tour

Film Review: Eternal Beauty

News: Embrace Get Their First Vinyl Reissues For Albums ‘Out Of Nothing’ And ‘This New Day’

Compilation: New Horizons – A Bristol Jazz Sound

TRACK: Strange Bones feat. Bob Vylan – ‘Menace’

TRACK: A Lily – ‘Slept Through The Storm’: complex minimalism for a dark time