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Album Review: The Bats’ Robert Scott and Dallas Henley release low-fi home recorded delight ‘Level 4’

As the main songwriter for the wonderful The Bats, Robert Scott needs no introduction (read my recent interview with him). Scott has partnered with Dallas Henley, Scott’s co-owner of an…

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Album Review: Roof Beams’ ‘This Life Must Be Long’ is a raw and graceful journey

Roof Beams have recorded an album ‘This Life Must Be Long’ filled with the most beautiful and expressive tracks. The instrumentation is delicate, the vocals raw and emotive, clever intelligent…

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Album review: Mapstation – ‘My Frequencies, When We’: playful, immensely thoughtful tronica

My Frequencies, When We may not flaunt its wares with garish insouciance; but like so many of the albums that end up welded to your turntable, it keeps on enticing you back for more exploration, further interaction. It occasionally raises a grin and equally occasionally, an eyebrow; it's varied in its approach yet thoroughly cohesive. It's an immensely thoughtful record

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Album review: A. Smyth unveils the imposing and beautiful album ‘Last Animals’

‘Lost Animals’ by Irish artist A. Smyth has an intriguing mix of acoustic and electronic instrumentation that creates a delicate fusion between a folk songwriting tradition and more rugged indie…

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Album review: A Winged Victory For the Sullen – ‘Invisible Cities’: thrilling set pushes way beyond polite ambience

Invisible Cities is an intriguing and challenging accompaniment to a multimedia work of the same name. It's also a cracking record in its own right, which is beautiful and textural and also genuinely thrilling in passages, and proves that A Winged Victory For the Sullen are not content to sit inside the pocket of modern composition and await their tribute; but wish to push onwards, much further onwards.

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EP Review: Of Mice & Men – Timeless

Of Mice & Men’s latest offering Timeless marks the start of their new relationship with Sharptone Records and gives us a concise three track taste of what we can expect…

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Album review: Cheval Sombre – ‘Time Waits For No One’: a luxuriant, timeless and meditative return

Time Waits For No One is not without its darknesses, its sadnesses, but they're approached with the calm, supplicant grace that sits right in the heart of such feelings; and it is bloody beautiful. It's an amulet, a perfect prescription; you can use it to ward off the world. Really, do

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Album Review: FM Einheit orchestrates dreams with “Exhibition Of A Dream.”

Having made mention of KMFDM in a previous review, it would seem that the more euro-centric oddities that are emerging from the winter have made their way into the collective…

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ALBUM REVIEW: slowthai – TYRON

The funny thing about TYRON is how clearly slowthai intends towards something, but never quite approaches it. Nothing Great About Britain was excellent – not to mention very clear in…

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Album Review: The Actions unveil the luscious atmospheric ‘Flourish’

Bristol duo The Actions‘ display their home town trip hop roots adeptly in their new album ‘Flourish’, out now through Niteo Records. This album has a spacious expansive atmosphere with…

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