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ALBUM REVIEW: Heavenly – ‘A Bout De Heavenly’: seminal sevens compiled in time for Santa

Rolling down through Heavenly's career through the prism of the single, you can see what a great band they were at that seemingly most humble, but powerful and demotic of formats, all packed full of the goodness of proper indiepop

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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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NEWS: The Wedding Present announce album of lockdown versions and more – see the stripped back ‘Crawl’

ALL THIS viral mess around us: it’s meant musicians have had to lock and load, get going as the going got tough. Plates, stepped up to. New ways adopted. New…

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NEWS: Damaged Goods announce Heavenly and Talulah Gosh singles comps in time for Christmas!

NOW that’s the kinda Christmas present every proper indiekid needs. Damaged Goods have announced a 2xLP and CD reissue of their classic round-up of Talulah Gosh’s entire recorded output, Was…

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NEWS: Optic Nerve’s sexy singles club announces v3.0

OPTIC NERVE, the wonderful Preston label that tickles the delighted fancy of any indie kid, has just announced the third edition of its singles club, which in the past has…

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Feature: Soundtrack of Our Lives – The Flatmates

THEY came bursting outta Brizzle on the back of one-foot-in-the-Spector-camp fizzbomb pop classics like “Shimmer” and “I Could Be In Heaven”. And this year, a mere 34 years after their…

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ALBUM REVIEW: McCarthy – ‘The Enraged Shall Inherit the Earth’

IF YOU’RE an old-skool, proper indie kid (and full disclosure, I count myself among that number), with campaign medals from the C86 wars – you saw action on the Creation,…

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NEWS: Alex Taylor, RIP: the indie world pays tribute

AS THE sad news of the death of Alex Taylor, singer of fuzzpop legends The Shop Assistants and The Motorcyle Boy, reverberated around the indie music world, peers and contemporaries…

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NEWS: Shop Assistants’ singer reported to have died

IT’S been reported across C86 newsgroups and fan sites over the past 48 hours that Alex Taylor, dulcet singer with Edinburgh’s great and ramshackle Shop Assistants and later of The…

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SEE: The Close Lobsters have still got the guitar shimmer nailed – ‘Godless’

STRAIGHT outta Paisley on the back of the C86 guitar pop wave, Close Lobsters were a little unfortunate to fly under the radar compared to some of their contemporaries. The…

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