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ALBUM REVIEW: Eternell – ‘Imagined Distances’: fine, glimmering ambient drone

SOUND IN SILENCE is a label concerned with the liminal and ambient fringes of music. Operating out of Athens for nigh on a decade and a half, it can boast…

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EP REVIEW: Magik Markers – ‘Isolated From Exterior Time: 2020’

CONNECTICUT’s foremost ragged, slacker squall-rockers Magik Markers have descended from their years-long recess and deigned to bless us with the benison of a new four-track, download-only EP for Drag City,…

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EP REVIEW: The Ricos – ‘Spirit State’

PHILADELPHIA’S languid, lofi outfit The Ricos is the brainchild of artist Joseph (Joe) B. Purcell. The band rose from the ashes of Purcell’s past projects with the intention to provide…

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ALBUM REVIEW: Aārp – ‘Propaganda’

MAKE no mistake, the debut album from classically trained experimentalist Aārp has serious conceptual intent. Entitled Propaganda, and out now on Paris-Lyon-Berlin imprint InFiné, it is pointedly political. The title…

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ALBUM REVIEW: Leeches – ‘Easy’: big up the West Country stoner vibe

SPEAKING as a West Country lad myself, it comes as no surprise, with all the plaudits and freewheelin’ fertility surrounding the harder end of the Antipodean jam-psych scene – led…

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ALBUM REVIEW: Check Masses – ‘Nightlife’

FOR MY money, Edinburgh is the most beautiful first-division city in these isles. Its architecture, its hills, its views north and east over silvered cold seas. And, god, the culture.…

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Album Review: PJ Orr – Tightrope Walker

There is a calming beauty in PJ Orr’s new album ‘Tightrope Walker’ which incorporates the vibrant genes of fellow Australian indie bands – both past and present – and packages…

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ALBUM REVIEW: Surprise Chef – ‘All News is Good News’

ALL NEWS Is Good News is the debut album by Melbourne instrumental funkmasters Surprise Chef. Originally released in a very limited pressing on the band’s own College Of Knowledge label…

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SAY PSYCH: album review: Venus Furs – ‘Venus Furs’

IT’S an album that’s been even longer in the creation than My Bloody Valentine’s legendary Loveless. Five years to write, five years to record and hone; but finally Montreal psych-shoegaze…

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Album Review: Key Out – Anthropomorphia

Key Out are proving to be one of the more exciting bands in Sydney – even the world – at the moment and this is never evident than in their…

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