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Live: Honeyblood – QMU Glasgow 24.10.2019 Plus Gallery

Honeyblood on stage at the QMU Glasgow on 24 October 2019

Stina Tweeddale and band bewitch the Glasgow crowd with an intoxicating brew of beloved back catalogue tracks and box-fresh songs from her latest album. It’s appropriate that Honeyblood are returning…

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Interview: John Walsh (Harryhausen: The Lost Movies)

The late Ray Harryhausen (1920-2013) is widely regarded as the person who pioneered visual effects for motion pictures as a craft. The stop-motion animations he provided for films like Jason…

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Track: Tan Cologne – Cave Vaults on the Moon in New Mexico

Probably influenced by a recent revisit to the world of TV series ‘Breaking Bad’, my image of New Mexico is a bright, cloudless, surreal landscape of magic, bleached bones and…

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Album Review: Corridor – Junior

Corridor have the unique distinction of being legendary label Subpop‘s first francophone signing. Hailing from Montreal, their newly released album ‘Junior’ is utterly endearing and highly distinct. Guitar driven and…

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Track: rincs – Locked In

rincs are LA duo Rebecca Ramirez and Bjorn Winberg and their new single ‘Locked In’ is a gorgeously unassuming delight. Ramirez’s voice is hauntingly melancholic and expressive, the instrumentation unadorned…

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Not Forgotten: Super Furry Animals – Guerrilla

For years I felt that Guerrilla was Super Furry Animals‘ untidiest album by some distance, never quite really holding it as close to my heart as I have their other albums, despite SFA being…

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Track: Didirri – Blue Mood Rising

Didirri is at the forefront of a whole bunch of preciously talented youngsters producing some incredible guitar-based music across Australia (see also Hatchie and Chakra Efendi, recently reviewed by Backseat…

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Track: Chakra Efendi – Morphine/Body by the Water

Chakra Efendi is a rare and unique talent: a product of the talent factory that is Queensland and with a low-fi resonance that is haunting and melancholic. Efendi (uses they/them/their…

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Track: Maff – Swamp

Chilean superstars of goth, Maff, are back at last with another fantastic single, ‘Swamp’. This follows on from the release of their EP ‘Melanina’ last year described by us as…

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Classic Album: Led Zeppelin – Led Zeppelin II

Led Zeppelin’s debut album was proof of concept for Jimmy Page, taking what Cream did with super-charged blues-rock, and just making it more slick and dynamic and marketing it directly…

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Live: Honeyblood – QMU Glasgow 24.10.2019 Plus Gallery

Interview: John Walsh (Harryhausen: The Lost Movies)

Track: Tan Cologne – Cave Vaults on the Moon in New Mexico

Album Review: Corridor – Junior

Track: rincs – Locked In

Not Forgotten: Super Furry Animals – Guerrilla

Track: Didirri – Blue Mood Rising

Track: Chakra Efendi – Morphine/Body by the Water

Track: Maff – Swamp

Classic Album: Led Zeppelin – Led Zeppelin II