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SEE: The video for Fleet Foxes’ ‘Can I Believe You’, from their surprise fourth

IT CAME as a surprise to most when, on last month’s autumn equinox, Fleet Foxes suddenly unveiled their new album, Shore. It’s full of the same wonderful, ethereal and warm…

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TRACK: Mountain Goats – ‘Picture Of My Dress’: yearning Americana ahead of next week’s album; live stream news

MOUNTAIN GOATS have dropped just one more track ahead of next week’s new album, Getting Into Knives – and they’ve gone with the acoustic Americana excellence of “Picture Of My…

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ALBUM REVIEW: Kevin Morby – ‘Sundowner’: simple acoustic truths deliver great profundity

Sundowner is a much more bucolic work than last year's Oh My God. in Kansas he's explored the simple complexity of the 60s' folk-troubadour aesthetic and pulls it off, admirably. It's a damn lovely record.

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Track: Rhyal Knight – Summer’s Over Soon

Rhyal Knight’s released “Summer’s Over Soon” as single via Grumpy Bastard Recordings. It’s his first single from the forthcoming album, Tresxha Clarity. Overdriven guitar and great vocals sees Rhyal Knight create…

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SEE: The video for Mountain Goats’ ‘Get Famous’, their first in five years

THE MOUNTAIN GOATS are primed and ready on the starting grid for the release of their new album, Getting Into Knives, on October 23rd; and for the first time in five years…

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Premiere: Westberg reveal new EP ‘Boomer Studies’ – stream exclusively here

Westberg, aka husband and wife duo Ariel Westberg and multi-platinum pop/electronic producer Scott Bruzenak, are gearing up for the release of their forthcoming EP, Boomer Studies, and we’re delighted to…

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PREMIERE: Free Country – ‘The Life Of Riley’: wistful, essential lofi from his hometown basement

FREE COUNTRY is the indie pop project of LA’s Jason Ribadeneyra, a man with an ear for a wistful, low-key melody delivered with weary truth in his voice. Tomorrow he…

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TRACK: hear the excellent cosmic pop of Elvis Perkins’ ‘See Monkey’:

ELVIS PERKINS, the sculptor of fine indie songsmithery in the great American tradition, has shared another excellent slice of melody ahead of his fifth album, Creation Myths, which will be…

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Track: Sally Anne Morgan releases ‘Polly On The Shore’

It’s getting mighty crowded in the psych-folk district right now. So to stand out you need that little something else … enter Sally Anne Morgan. A fiddler, banjo player and…

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TRACK: Mountain Goats’ ‘Get Famous’: a warm groove with a lyrical arrow

JOHN DARNIELLE’S evergreen and much-loved Mountain Goats are shaping up to release their second full-lengther of the year, Getting Into Knives; and today they’ve released a highlight from the forthcoming album…

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