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Track: Horror In Clay – Heck Cattle Grazing

“Heck Cattle Grazing” is the first work to be released by Auckland art-folk/experimental group Horror In Clay. The group, featuring former members of popular group Girls Pissing on Girls Pissing, recorded…

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Track: Mush – Operation Vaken, plus EP news

Leeds quartet Mush have announced their debut EP Induction Party is due out on May 31st via Memphis Industries. From it, the band have shared a new single, Operation Vaken.…

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ALBUM REVIEW: Django Django “Marble Skies”

Django Django return with their third studio album “Marble Skies” which sees the Scottish-formed, London-based art/maths rock quartet honing their particular brand of quirky guitar-driven synth pop to reach new…

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Album Review: Sparks – Hippopotamus

When Sparks roared back to relevance with 2002‘s Lil’ Beethoven, it was treated as a glorious return to form. How long that form would last was another matter. Was it…

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Meet: TULIPOMANIA

We recently discovered a band from Philadelphia, called Tulipomania. They already have quite a lot of music out there and plenty of award-winning videos to go with that, but the…

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Album review: Xiu Xiu – Forget

From the howled opening lyrics to ‘The Call’ it’s very clear that Xiu Xiu’s latest project is a giant step away from last year’s Plays The Music Of Twin Peaks.…

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Album Review: Dutch Uncles – Big Balloon

Dutch Uncles return with a triumphant fifth album, their fourth on the Memphis Industries label and first since 2015’s “O Shudder”. It’s remarkable that the Marple band (Duncan, Pete, Robin…

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Track: Vyk Non – Distant Stars

Seems that London quartet Vyk Non are on a mission to confuse us. Starting with their name that, in the spirit of Aphex Twin, consists of basically meaningless words that…

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See: Jumpin’ Quails release new video for Rainbow Flesh

There’s a cauldron of things going on with Jumpin’ Quails. The Torino (Italy) based band write songs in a variety of languages – usually English, French or German, and throw…

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Track / Video

Track: Batteries – The Fall-In-Love Club

If you remember the day-glow dork punk (I just thought of that, and I quite likes it) of Bis, Steven Clark will be a vaguely familiar figure in his guise…

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