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ALBUM REVIEW: Joachim Spieth – ‘Ousia’: tronica sound design to fall deep into

Joachim Spieth's Ousia finesses current tronica-ambient thinking with some very deep and elemental sound design. Peer closer and you'll find it hard not to fall in

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EP REVIEW: Tori Amos – ‘Christmastide’: four originals for the season

A stateswoman of female musical discourse takes the Christmas song tradition and makes of it something thoughtful, intelligent and nuanced

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Meet: We interview Nic Dalton, owner of Sydney’s legendary Half a Cow Records

As a reviewer, from time to time you come across small boutique labels whose enthusiasm and dedication to the music scene is utterly magnificent and completely inspiring. Over the past…

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Album Review: Eskobar rejuvenate and refresh the past with swaggering new album Chapter 2

Nordic groove masters, Eskobar, are a band that isn’t afraid to wear their influences on their sleeve – their debt to the Madchester era, The Stone Roses, Britpop and all…

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ALBUM REVIEW: M. Ward – ‘Think Of You’: Portland guitar wonder seduces with Billie Holiday set

M. Ward's pulled off quite a neat trick here. Think Of You has many of the appurtenances of a seasonal album without quite being one. It could be M. Ward's best album in a good while, proving that all he really needs is some retro recording equipment and a guitar to be at his very best

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ALBUM REVIEW: Louis Philippe & The Night Mail – ‘Thunderclouds’: the blessed return of a baroque pop genius

FOOTBALL writer, baroque pop legend, in-house producer, literary collaborator: truly Philippe Auclair – known worldwide to an adoring fanbase as Louis Philippe (for it is, indeed, him) is the sort…

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ALBUM REVIEW: Heavenly – ‘A Bout De Heavenly’: seminal sevens compiled in time for Santa

Rolling down through Heavenly's career through the prism of the single, you can see what a great band they were at that seemingly most humble, but powerful and demotic of formats, all packed full of the goodness of proper indiepop

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