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Album review: TOMAGA – ‘INTIMATE IMMENSITY’: a final testament in darkwave from Tom Relleen

TOM RELLEEN was a cornerstone of London’s experimental/electronic music scene. Co-founder of Phonica Records, promoter and prolific musician, he was a hub around which creativity revolved. Forming Tomaga with percussionist…

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Premiere: Black Light Smoke – ‘North Korea’: New York darkwaver dusts down a pulsing groove for his forthcoming early years album

BASED in Rochester on the shores of Lake Ontario, darkwave synth explorer Jordan Lieb, who records as Black Light Smoke, has used the past year of enforced inactivity to look…

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SEE: Post Coal Prom Queen – ‘Salt’: a cool, dystopian synthpop opener

FORMERLY the creative heart behind L-space, the electronic alt.pop outfit who released three albums from 2018 up to last year, Lily Higham and Gordon Johnstone have cleaved away into a…

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TRACK: IYEARA bring the darkwave to Mark Lanegan’s ‘Playing Nero’

IF THERE’S any musician out there currently writing and recording who you can say has absolutely lived it, that accolade must surely go to former Screaming Trees man Mark Lanegan.…

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Album Review : Drab Majesty’s ‘Modern Mirror

Drab Majesty creates in light and dark. There’s the Gothic chill of Pornography-era Cure and the synth pop lift of early OMD, Talk Talk, and Animotion. Deb Demure started Drab…

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Album Review : R. Missing’s ‘Unsummering’ EP

There’s both a quiet cool and a dark tension that permeates R. Missing’s EP Unsummering. Even in their promotional material it says “You won’t find love songs here. You’ll find…

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