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Album Review: The Finalists release their warm and enveloping debut album First

Sydney supergroup The Finalists have just released their debut album ‘First’ and it is a delight. Nine tracks that feature the most jangling and sparkling of guitars – six strings,…

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Album Review: The Cribs – ‘Night Network’: their best yet?

Replete with unparalleled displays of riff-age. Riddled with lyrical honesty. An uncompromising garage-punk production. Each of The Cribs’ releases has honed these and other facets with increasing skill and, as…

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Album Review: Young Jesus – ‘Welcome to Conceptual Beach’

Saddle Creek 's emo-jazz-rock band presents its most accomplished album, a spiritual journey driven by a swirl of enthralling riffs

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CASSETTE REVIEWS: A trio of leftfield beauties from Fritz Pape, Stephen Molyneux, and Laura Luna Castillo

WHITED SEPULCHRE is one of those brilliant little labels nibbling away at, and fascinated by, what’s happening out on the margins. The artists driven less by adoring teens and the…

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ALBUM REVIEW: The Bitter Springs – ‘Hope Springs Eternal’: lost British indiepop classic, expanded

Nineteen years after its initial release, The Bitter Springs are hoping this hidden gem of an album will finally get the recognition it deserves with a vinyl re-release featuring additional bonus tracks

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ALBUM REVIEW: Pole – ‘Fading’: an enveloping electronic palimpsest

Fading is a palimpsest, Stefan writing over and erasing, finessing and revisiting all the Poles which make up Pole. Think of Fading in terms of depth, of descending, and exploring what lies within. It'll envelop you.

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Album Review: Loma – Don’t Shy Away

“Don’t Shy Away’, the new album from Loma, is a joy: luminescent and glowing throughout with a multi-layered instrumental complexity and yet a simplicity and elegance to the songs that…

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ALBUM REVIEW: Dope Body – ‘Crack A Light’: shriekin’ and howlin’ at the altar

Crack A Light really won't disappoint if you like guitars that shriek and howl in hardcore-stoner distress. A righteous noise purging

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ALBUM REVIEWS: Lucifer – ‘Black Mass’; Ataraxia – ‘The Unexplained’: spooky Moog vibes from Mort Garson, reissued

SIXTIES’ and Seventies’ electronica is a weird and eccentric world, seemingly populated by mad genii and creative mavericks with clipboards and lab coats, observing banks of machinery at sonic play.…

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ALBUM REVIEW: Keep Dancing Inc – ‘Embrace’ – new wave synthpop is worth the wait

This euphoric, if occasionally generic debut album from Keep Dancing Inc comes after a five-year wait, a wait that has evidently been worth it. With bouncing synths, fuzzy guitars and endless 80s nostalgia, Embrace will get you shaking those shoulder pads in no time

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