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TRACK: Metronomy – ‘The Light’ (Kero Kero Bonito remix): a modern synthpop marriage

IT MAKES absolute sense, when you think about it: take the art-synth-pop of Metronomy, take also further intelligent pop experimenta via the futurist J-pop and shoegaze-informed stylings of Kero Kero…

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NEWS: BETWEEN THE BURIED AND ME CONTINUE 20TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATIONS WITH VINYL REISSUE OF ALASKA

After re-releasing the bands second album The Silent Circus Craft Recordings is set to reissue Between the Buried and Me’s acclaimed third album, Alaska on vinyl. Releasing September 25th and available for pre-order, the 2005 record features newly remixed…

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ALBUM REVIEW: Fritz Pape – ‘From My Guitar At Homes’: inventive sonic studies for the ambient-minded

FRITZ PAPE began his musical journey under the alias Zijnzijn Zijnzijn!, under which banner he undertook to create impenetrable, even frightening, waves and barrages of guitar, right up in your…

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Fantasia Festival Review: Monster Seafood Wars

The Japanese love their Kaiju or (giant) monster movies. We’re not talking about an overgrown croc or a man-size rat here. We’re talking about Godzilla, Mothra, Gamera et al, rampaging…

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Fantasia Festival Review – Dinner in America

There’s nothing American independent cinema seems to like more than oddballs. Those characters who sit somewhere outside of the norm but usually find themselves thrust into extremely ordinary situations for…

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NOT FORGOTTEN: The Irresistible Force – ‘It’s Tomorrow Already’: the loud, great finale of British rave-ambient

“IT’S TIME to lie down and be counted”: so goes Mixmaster Morris’s brilliant call to very relaxed arms for the 90s’ British ambient scene. It was a manifesto banner that…

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NEWS: Hamilton Leithauser announces new album, live launch stream

HAMILTON LEITHAUSER, the massive voice behind such The Walkmen hits as “The Rat” and “In The New Year”, has announced a new album – a live set – and to…

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TRACK: China Bears – ‘Statue Still’: a proper big indie guitar thing outta the west

CHINA BEARS – up and coming on cool indie Fierce Panda – haven’t had the best run of luck this year. Firstly, their appearance at Austin, Texas’s acclaimed SXSW festival…

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See: Even As We Speak release poignant video for ‘Leaves’

‘Adelphi’, the new album from Sydney’s magnificent Even As We Speak has been further bolstered by an absolutely beautiful video for the track ‘Leaves’. A golden thread throughout the album…

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Track: Garsa releases the wistful track Ghosts

Garsa is essentially the solo work of Martin Garside who is the maestro of low-fi and beautifully expressed indie pop – veering between a delicate folk strum and a subtle…

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