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See: Bryan Away – ‘The Lake’: beautiful Chicago baroque pop brings The Left Banke sound to 2021

COME gather round, lovers of finely nuanced music, for the new sound of Chicago. Elliot Korte means this music. No jobbing careerist him, seeking a life of cars ‘n’ girls;…

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See: The trippy CGI video for Lightman Jarvis Ecstatic Band’s ‘Elastic Band’: Yves Jarvis and Tasseomancy’s Romy making free and wonkily beautiful music

THEY SOUND like they should be some great lost Moog-psych outfit from ’69, and weird and wonderful is definitely a touchstone for the Lightman Jarvis Ecstatic Band, be sure. It’s…

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News: Cheval Sombre announces his second album of the year, following the deliciousness of ‘Time Waits For No One’; see the animation for ‘Well It’s Hard’

AFTER so many moons away from us Chris Porpora, aka Cheval Sombre, has delighted us, truly delighted us, with the gorgeous ambient shoegaze folk of Time Waits For No One…

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SEE: The fairytale stop-motion video for Renée Reed’s graceful, mysterious ‘I Saw A Ghost’

WITH her stunning, graceful, mysterious debut album out tomorrow on Keeled Scales, Louisianan folk riser musician Renée Reed has dropped a fourth and final single to usher you into the scented finery…

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See the lyric video for Polly Paulusma’s ‘Jack Munro’ – an album of songs that influenced Angela Carter’s on the way

YOU WANT intelligent folk songcraft? Look no further than Polly Paulusma. Fresh from teaching English to undergraduates at Cambridge, and having recently been awarded a PhD, English folkie Polly Paulusma…

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SEE: Emerson Snowe – ‘Frankenstein’: creepy visuals and Chills-like guitar pop

BRISBANE’S Jarrod M. Mahon disappears down the rabbit hole of indiepop under the dashing name of Emerson Snowe; and he’s just released a first taster of an EP, out later…

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SEE: Francis of Delirium – ‘Let It All Go’: casting fate to the wind with punk pop fizz

I MEAN, we knew straight away that Francis of Delirium, the Canadian-American duo happy to call Luxembourg home, were probably not going to be shrinking violets; that much was certainly…

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SEE: The animation for Kratos Himself’s ‘Shift’: complex beatz atmospheres

KRATOS HIMSELF is the singular musical vision of Jethro Kratos Hopmans, whose mission is to meld icy electronics, potent cinematic beats and an expansive library of sound recordings in order…

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SEE: The animated video for Samuel Sharp’s ‘Dawn Rises’; the English dawn captured in solo sax

HE’S QUITE the scion of British solo saxophone, is Samuel Sharp; not, perhaps, on the face of it, an easy thing to comprehend, but what he’s offering over what’s now…

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TRACK: Panteon – ‘Waking Waiting’: lighter-than-air alt.folk explores the void at the end of the affair

YVONNE AMBRÉE is an artist currently based in Berlin who writes, records and produces music under the nom-de-musique Panteon. She has a particular way with an airy, fragile folk melody…

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