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Track: Cut Copy – Cold Water

Melbourne synth pop quartet, Cut Copy share their new single, ‘Cold Water’. Taken from the four-piece’s sixth studio album – ‘Freeze, Melt’, dropping on 21st August via The Orchard. Dan Whitford on the track: “After extensive…

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NEWS: Orchestra Boabab celebrate 50 not out with vinyl

SENEGALESE legends Orchestra Boabab are marking their 50th anniversary this year; and in celebration the band have announced the first-ever vinyl issue of their landmark 2002 reunion set, Specialist In…

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Track: Alvarez Kings – ‘Words I Couldn’t Say’

UK alternative pop four-piece Alvarez Kings has just released a new single entitled “Words I Couldn’t Say” via Sire Records. Simon Thompson comments about the track: “The song came about when I…

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Track: Colorama – And Plus New Album News

Carwyn Ellis has teamed up with Shawn Lee under Ellis’s project, Colorama and are about to release album ‘Chaos Wonderland’ due July 31st via Banana & Louie Records this will…

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SEE: The Illness’s ‘Descending’ gets Pavement on board

TIMES of no travel aren’t a restriction to collaborating on great music in this fibre-optic world of ours: as proved by The Illness’s crackingly worldly-wise slice of transatlantic indie-leaning guitarpop,…

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ALBUM REVIEW: Leeches – ‘Easy’: big up the West Country stoner vibe

SPEAKING as a West Country lad myself, it comes as no surprise, with all the plaudits and freewheelin’ fertility surrounding the harder end of the Antipodean jam-psych scene – led…

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Track: Broadside – Heavenly

Pop Punkers Broadside have just released their 3rd single taken from forthcoming album Into the Raging Sea due 24th July. Heavenly is another slice of emotion filled “From the very…

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Track: Hey Elbow – Nurture/Aptitude

Swedish dream-pop outfit Hey Elbow are back once again to share another wonderfully broad and ethereal offering, “Nurture/Aptitude”, lifted from their forthcoming full-length “We Three” due 18th September via Adrian Recordings. With…

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ALBUM REVIEW: Check Masses – ‘Nightlife’

FOR MY money, Edinburgh is the most beautiful first-division city in these isles. Its architecture, its hills, its views north and east over silvered cold seas. And, god, the culture.…

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Sheffield Doc/Fest Review: Me and the Cult Leader

On 20 March 1995, members of the Aum Shinrikyo, a doomsday cult, orchestrated five coordinated attacks on the Tokyo Metro. During rush hour they released Sarin gas on three different…

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Track: Cut Copy – Cold Water

NEWS: Orchestra Boabab celebrate 50 not out with vinyl

Track: Alvarez Kings – ‘Words I Couldn’t Say’

Track: Colorama – And Plus New Album News

SEE: The Illness’s ‘Descending’ gets Pavement on board

ALBUM REVIEW: Leeches – ‘Easy’: big up the West Country stoner vibe

Track: Broadside – Heavenly

Track: Hey Elbow – Nurture/Aptitude

ALBUM REVIEW: Check Masses – ‘Nightlife’

Sheffield Doc/Fest Review: Me and the Cult Leader