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Track: London-based psych-folkster Lando Manning returns with the chillingly moving ‘Veneer’.

Lando Manning has been a key component in London’s bustling alt-folk scene for a while now. Justifiably an ever present on the live circuit, whether going solo or with band,…

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Album review: Fuzzy Lights – ‘Burials’: Cambridge psych-folk prodigals grow a faerie ring of psych-folk, post-rock and more to lay your troubled bones within

IT’S BEEN all of eight years now since Cambridgeshire post-folk collective Fuzzy Lights have graced our ears with an album, that being Rule Of Twelfths; but the planets have aligned…

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See: The esoteric psilocybin dream of Fuzzy Lights’ ‘Sirens’: fine fenland acid folk preludes next week’s new album

A HIATUS of eight years hasn’t dimmed Fuzzy Lights as mysterious musical force, not one bit; quite the opposite, in fact. They’ve a new album, Burials, out at the end…

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See: Fuzzy Lights – ‘Under The Waves’: returning Cambridge folk-rockers add some feedback fire to the blend

HAILING from Cambridge with a potent elixir of acid/post-folk, Fuzzy Lights are moving towards the release of their first full-length set in more than eight years with the full-on drone-psych…

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See: Fuzzy Lights – ‘Maiden’s Call’: wood-smoky acid folk beauty from returning Cambridge collective

IT’S BEEN all of eight years now since Cambridgeshire post-folk collective Fuzzy Lights have graced our ears with an album, that being Rule Of Twelfths; but the planets have aligned…

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Track: MF Tomlinson – ‘A Long Day’: London psych-folkster brings the flute-filled wonder to a tale of early mornings

MICHAEL TOMLINSON is the main man in the sorta-solo project MF Tomlinson, in which he plys a very neat line in indie folk/roots songcraft with a grainy bearhug of a voice.…

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SEE: MF Tomlinson – ‘Them Apples’: on Montague Terrace with an acid-folk odyssey

MF TOMLINSON, the project of London-based, Australian singer-songwriter Michael Tomlinson, is today taking us deeper, oh! so deeper into his particular blued Montagued Terrace with a new single, “Them Apples”;…

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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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Album Review: Julian Cope – Drunken Songs

Few artists can claim to have ploughed such a rich and bizarre furrow as Julian Cope. From scouse-pop Smash Hits pin-up, calling at Scott walker acid casualty, via stone(d) circle…

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Feature: Label Focus – Blackest Rainbow

It’s funny that one of the best labels distributing Folk, experimental, drone, Japanese alternative, avant garde and general ‘noise’ stuff is Blackest Rainbow records, here in Sheffield. not only that but they…

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