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Album Review: Richard Thompson – Acoustic Classics II

Richard Thompson has been performing his particular brand of folk rock for the best part of five decades now, and his career has seen him regularly release critically acclaimed albums.…

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Siobhan Wilson 'There Are No Saints' album cover

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Album Review: Siobhan Wilson – There Are No Saints

Siobhan Wilson provides the heavenly soundtrack to heartbreak and healing with her second album ‘There Are No Saints’. After returning to Scotland from Paris five years ago, Siobhan Wilson moved…

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Not Forgotten: The Bees – Octopus

There’s something heartening when you discover a band that’s obviously not part of a media-hyped ‘scene’. Released during a period where tie-rock, Brit-pop revivalists and Coldplay-clones still held sway here…

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Marnie Strange Words And Weird Wars Album artwork

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Album Review: Marnie – Strange Words And Weird Wars

With new album ‘Strange Words And Weird Wars’ Marnie proves that she still rules when it comes to powerful pop. ‘Strange Words And Weird Wars’ (released on 2 June) is…

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Album Review: Randy Newman – The Randy Newman Songbook Vol. 3

You know, sometimes it really is just down to the songs. On hearing Kate Bush lavish sounding Before the Dawn for the first time recently, I have to admit, I…

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Album Review: Amber Run – For A Moment, I Was Lost

Amber Run release their highly anticipated sophomore album For A Moment, I Was Lost on 10th February 2017 via Easy Life Records/Red Essential. The album is accompanied with a 13…

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Album Review: Sailor & I – The Invention of Loneliness

It’s been a few years since Sailor & I unleashed his amazing debut track ‘Tough Love’, a song so unlike anything else around at the time, or now. It was…

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Album Review: Ed Harcourt – Furnaces

In a music scene still crammed full of post-Jeff Buckley singer songwriters, Ed Harcourt has been criminally overlooked down the years, especially when you consider that he’s only released one…

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Album Review: Ezra Furman – Big Fugitive Life

It was the eighties that made androgyny so popular. Huge stars like Prince, Boy George and Adam Ant showed that it was just as cool for a man to rock…

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Album Review: Viola Beach – Viola Beach

Valentine’s weekend this year. I was on my way home from British seaside town Scarborough, where Backseat Mafia had just finished a triumphant weekend hosting a stage at the town’s…

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