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Premiere: We provide an exclusive listen to the new self titled album from Welsh indie giants Sock: a shimmeringly perfect fit.

We are very honoured to be able to bring you an exclusive first listen to the new album self-titled from Welsh indie giants Sock, released through Bubblewrap Collective. Hailing from…

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Track: Ritual Cloak envelopes us in a delicious psychedelic fugue with their new track ‘Left Behind’ as new EP ‘Vanished in Transition’ is announced.

Welsh duo Ritual Cloak have just announced a new EP entitled ‘Vanished In Transition’ through Bubblewrap Collective Records, and to whet the appetite have released the track ‘Left Behind’. ‘Left…

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Track: Little Arrow – ‘Poetically Diseased’ (Live at Four Bars, Cardiff, 2014): potent live take heralds the tenth anniversary rerelease of ‘Music, Masks & Poems’

HAILING from far out west in deepest Pembrokeshire, Little Arrow began making waves on the Welsh scene a decade back with a fully musically and emotionally realised debut album, Music,…

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Track: My Name Is Ian – ‘For Love’; Welsh collective bring the baggy

MY NAME IS IAN, the lo-fi trio outta Cardiff with a fantastic line in song titles (“If I Was A Gentoo Penguin, I’d Find You The Smoothest Pebble”, anyone?) and…

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Track: Ritual Cloak – ‘White Noise’: an elegy for a friend in cooltempo electronica

CARDIFF duo Ritual Cloak is the meeting of Daniel Barnett, formerly of Samoans, and drummer and producer Andrew Sanders, in which musical space between them they find some pretty beguiling,…

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TRACK: Ritual Cloak – ‘Opaque Crater’: brooding post-rock soundscapes from Cardiff

CARDIFF duo Ritual Cloak is the meeting of Daniel Barnett, formerly of Samoans, and drummer and producer Andrew Sanders, in which musical space between them they find some pretty beguiling,…

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EP REVIEW: Quiet Marauder – ‘Tiny Men Parts’: a critique of the male condition in bounce-along indiepop

Tiny Men Parts nails masculine creepiness and ineptitude with insouciance and tons of guitar pop like they used to make

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