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ALBUM REVIEW: Little Barrie and Malcolm Catto – ‘Quatermass Seven’: deep psych; turn on, compadre

IT’S FAIR to say that losing your drummer – the man who pins it down for you, keeps it ticking, grounded, makes sure the groove is strong – is a…

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Album Review: Richard Wileman – ‘Arcana’

UK MUSICIAN Richard Wileman has been making spooky gothic, mostly instrumental music for more than 20 years under the name Karda Estra. In more recent years he’s made a few…

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ALBUM REVIEW: Adam Stafford – ‘Diamonds Of A Horse Famine’: atmospheric folk set from the notebooks

Diamonds Of A Horse Famine is a lyrically precise and freewheelin' folk set, reviving a rediscovered notebook. Erotic Thistle contends for folk song of the year

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Album Review: Pallbearer – ‘Forgotten Days’

Pallbearer are back with their fourth offering of doom metal and a band going almost full circle. This new album is connected to their first long play album ‘Sorrow and…

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ALBUM REVIEW: Magik Markers – ‘2020’: New England noiseniks’ filthy return

New England noiseniks' full-length return after a six-year absence is filthy, trippy and even, at points, damn pretty. Righteous and cathartic, be glad they're back

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ALBUM REVIEW: SHHE – ‘Re:’: remixers take her debut for a delightful spin deeper

Re: confirms SHHE as a great Scottish talent whose musics lend to steaming and bending into pretty new shapes. There’s a couple of artists working out in the sound forges where she is; but there’s a lot of room for music this good.

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Album Review: Underground Lovers release surprise remix collection ‘Shadows’

Spanning their entire thirty career, the new collection of remixes from the legendary Underground Lovers is utterly sublime. It goes without saying that the flesh of a remix is only…

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ALBUM REVIEW: Snowdrops – ‘Volutes’: chamber duo expand the post-classical palette with true beauty

Snowdrops have taken the post-classical palette to another place again with their use of two of the more overlooked pioneering electronic instruments, and produced a work that at its least, is intensely transporting; and in its two twin peaks, “Comma (variation 1)” and “Ultraviolet”, close to too beautiful, heartbreakingly so.

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ALBUM REVIEW: Daniel O’Sullivan – ‘Electric Māyā: Dream Flotsam and Astral Hinterlands’: transporting and dazzling shortform art

Electric Māyā is a collection of short stories; of microfiction. Take your time and don’t breeze through; you’ll be peering through windows into 18 other little spheres. Dazzling shortform

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ALBUM REVIEW: Henrik Lindstrand – ‘Nordhem’: absolute piano grace, recorded beautifully

Nordhem is a love letter to the piano with the lightest touches of other ambience, the slightest nuances and textures; like salted caramel, that tiny sprinkle brings so much richness. It's a delight.

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