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Track: Alvvays – Adult Diversion, plus tour dates

Taken from their acclaimed self-titled debut album, comes a new single, Adult Diversion, from Canada indie kids Alvvays. It drops, via Transgressive on June 22nd, ahead of a UK tour,…

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Track: Albert Hammond Jr – Losing Touch, plus US tour dates

Ahead of his forthcoming solo album Momentary Masters, sometime Stroke Albert Hammond Jr is back with a new song taken from that very record, Losing Touch. Its his third solo…

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Incoming: The Look of Silence

Through Joshua Oppenheimer’s work filming perpetrators of the Indonesian genocide, a family of survivors discovers how their son was murdered and the identity of the men who killed him. The…

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Album Review: Everything Everything – Get To Heaven

Everything Everything’s third album Get to Heaven thankfully does not veer far from their first two witty, dark records. This time around they feel very confident about their work and rightly…

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Psych Insight: News – Liverpool International Festival of Psychedelia 2015 line up

It is around about this time of year that my thoughts begin to turn to the Liverpool PsychFest, being held in the hugely atmospheric Baltic Triangle a stone’s throw away…

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Film Review: Queen and Country

In 1987 John Boorman directed Hope and Glory. It was a semi-autobiographical account of a young boy growing up in London during The Blitz. It earned him Academy Award nominations…

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Incoming: Gascoinge

Twenty five years ago the national game was unloved and beset by problems. One event – the performance of the England team at the Italia 1990 World Cup – changed…

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New Music: Dreampop quartet I Know Leopard release new single Close My Eyes

I wrote about I Know Leopard, after the release of their debut single, ‘Picture Perfect’ late last year and saw it as a perfect antidote to the Northern Hemisphere’s winter.…

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Track: Clean Cut Kid – Vitamin C

Liverpool four piece Clean Cut Kid, aka Mike Halls, Evelyn Halls, Saul Godman and Ross Higginson, make music best described, at least to Halls, as “Soulful pop ballads, washed in…

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Track: Telegram – Aeons

It seems almost laughable that Telegram only formed just over eighteen months ago, given everything they have achieved since, but so it is that Matt Saunders (vocals/ guitar), Matt Wood…

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Track: Alvvays – Adult Diversion, plus tour dates

Track: Albert Hammond Jr – Losing Touch, plus US tour dates

Incoming: The Look of Silence

Album Review: Everything Everything – Get To Heaven

Psych Insight: News – Liverpool International Festival of Psychedelia 2015 line up

Film Review: Queen and Country

Incoming: Gascoinge

New Music: Dreampop quartet I Know Leopard release new single Close My Eyes

Track: Clean Cut Kid – Vitamin C

Track: Telegram – Aeons