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Meet: Lincolnshire shoegazers Corasandel

Corasandel are an ambient-shoegaze band from Lincolnshire, England. They’re signed to independent label Shelflife Records in Portland, Oregon and have a new single out called ‘Cracked Light’. I caught up…

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See: Enslaved Release Video For Second Single ‘Jettegryta’ and Launched Pre-order For New Album

Norway’s premier progressive black metallers Enslaved have released the second single ‘Jettegryta’ from their upcoming studio album Utgard. The single is accompanied by a frost-bitten video, in which an Icelandic pristine glacial landscape is darkened…

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Feature: Soundtrack of our lives: Close Lobsters

Blasting off as they meant to go on with influential singles ‘Going to Heaven to See if it rains’ (October 1986) and Never Seen Before (April 1987), plus an appearance…

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NEWS: Kevin Rowland’s majestic folly, ‘My Beauty’ for autumn rerelease

IT CAME adorned with the artist expressing his beauty – in lippy and suspenders, eyes level, straight to camera. It contained an eclectic range of covers, from Merseyside anthem “You’ll…

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SEE: Sarah Walk is unblinking on ‘Unravel’

WATCH the film for LA singer-songwriter Sarah Walk’s single, “Unravel”, and know she is a woman who is both facing up to and able to articulate emotional pain. “Why is…

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SEE: Ganser’s ‘Emergency Equipment & Exits’ explores just walking away

ILLINOIS quartet Ganser have just released their second single of 2020, “Emergency Equipment & Exits”, an exploration of that universal human experience, the sudden, instinctual urge to just up and…

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Track: Vast Asteroid – Champagne Ambassadors

There has been an increasing number of references to the genre of spacegaze – a highly volatile concoction of shoegaze, psychedelia and dream pop. Vast Asteroid so describe themselves, and…

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See: The Institutes release video for ‘Heal In Time’

If it wasn’t enough that The Institutes released one of the singles of the year so far – a jingle jangly hyper-delight of of a tune – they have added…

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See: Sparks’ ‘The Existential Threat’ video

The video for Sparks’ The Existential Threat, a highlight from their stellar 2020 album, was released the same day as physical copies of A Steady Drip, Drip, Drip were made…

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Album Review: Mike Shinoda – Dropped Frames, Vol. 1

It’s a brand new innovative solo project from Linkin Park’s Mike Shinoda; an album written with the help of his Twitch live-streaming community. What could be more lockdown, right? Released…

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Meet: Lincolnshire shoegazers Corasandel

See: Enslaved Release Video For Second Single ‘Jettegryta’ and Launched Pre-order For New Album

Feature: Soundtrack of our lives: Close Lobsters

NEWS: Kevin Rowland’s majestic folly, ‘My Beauty’ for autumn rerelease

SEE: Sarah Walk is unblinking on ‘Unravel’

SEE: Ganser’s ‘Emergency Equipment & Exits’ explores just walking away

Track: Vast Asteroid – Champagne Ambassadors

See: The Institutes release video for ‘Heal In Time’

See: Sparks’ ‘The Existential Threat’ video

Album Review: Mike Shinoda – Dropped Frames, Vol. 1