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Album Review: Cecilie Strange – ‘Beech’: Compelling Nordic Jazz with a subtle strength and singular sound.

When an artist settles into their groove, over time the spark in their music can dim. Listening to ‘Beech’ the new album by Danish saxophonist Cecilie Strange it’s more than…

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Premiere: Kúlu release new live session video for Seeking

Danish indie rock band Kúlu released their latest single Seeking last month, proving again their able to blend in echoey, shoegaze guitars and dark, melancholic melodies together in the way…

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EP Review: Why Sun – Frugte

Copenhagen trio why sun describe their sound as ‘sleepy noise’. It’s an interesting attempt to coin a new sub-genre, but I can hear little going on here besides straight up…

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Track: Choir of Young Believers – Face Melting

Its taken some time, three years to be accurate, but at last Choir of Young Believers aka Copenhagen based Jannis Noya Makrigiannis, plus assorted friends, who are back with a…

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Track: Mew – Satellites, plus album/tour news

Welcome back Mew. It seemed like the Danish art-poppers, aka Copenhagen quartet Jonas Bjerre Bo Madsen Silas Graae Johan Wohlert might have left us after going on a worryingly long…

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Live: Broken Twin at St John on Bethnal Green

Broken Twin’s music demands this church setting; somewhere deeply sonorous and solemn, redolent with the deliciously evocative smell of candle wax. On this windswept Wednesday evening, Majke Voss Romme and band are…

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EP Review: Eerie Glue//Joey Fourr – ‘Yr New Favourite EP’

I reckon every recording artist both signed and unsigned pre-about-2000 has at one point in their career recorded music in the Lo-fi style. The mental image of a young Rick…

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