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News: As one heavenly body sets, another rises: Khruangbin and Leon Bridges announce their ‘Texas Moon’ EP – watch the video for ‘B-Side’

TO FLIP the orbs from the bright orange to the white, and after that impossibly catchy previous A in particular, “Texas Sun”, Khruangbin are once again joining forces with Leon…

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See: Devendra Banhart and Noah Goergeson unveil an expansive, meditative ‘Refuge’ double set for August; come float within ‘Into Clouds’ and ‘In A Cistern’

THEIR first meeting may have been entirely inauspicious – the one enquiring of the other whether in fact he was, indeed, a French drug dealer – but once that initial…

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EP review: Phoebe Bridgers reworks songwriting magic with ‘Copycat Killer’: an EP for dreamers and lovers

ENCOURAGED by the international success of her award-winning and Grammy-nominated album Punisher, the phenomenal Phoebe Bridgers has set out and reworked four tracks off the album into a vinyl release,…

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Say Psych: Track Review: Shame – Nigel Hitter

Shame have recently shared their new single ‘Nigel Hitter’, a track taken from their long-anticipated new album Drunk Tank Pink. Alongside, the band have shared a Maxim Kelly directed video which repurposes archival…

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TRACK: Phoebe Bridgers releases EP of orchestral reversions; hear ‘Kyoto’

LA’S lovely Phoebe Bridgers releases a new four-track EP, Copycat Killer, on Dead Oceans on December 4th; it features all-new recordings of songs from her critically acclaimed album Punisher from…

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ALBUM REVIEW: Kevin Morby – ‘Sundowner’: simple acoustic truths deliver great profundity

Sundowner is a much more bucolic work than last year's Oh My God. in Kansas he's explored the simple complexity of the 60s' folk-troubadour aesthetic and pulls it off, admirably. It's a damn lovely record.

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SEE: Watch the video for Kevin Morby’s ‘Campfire’; new album for Dead Oceans; live stream ‘tour’

KANSAS’ favourite guitar-wielding son, Kevin Morby, who’s delighted us over the past seven years with five rather lovely solo albums, has announced his sixth full-length set will hit the racks…

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SEE: Fenne Lily releases new single ‘Berlin’

DEAD OCEANS’ newest signing, Bristol-based Fenne Lily, will release her new album Breach on September 18th. Today, she offers the defining moment on the record, “Berlin”, a careful, beautiful declaration celebrating comfort in…

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SEE: Fenne Lily -‘To Be A Woman Pt. 2’: whispered caution, guitars fizzing

BRISTOL is a city that has really pulled its weight in modern musical culture; there’s no need to list all those paradigm-shifters that have come from the Avon Valley. One…

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Album Review: Phoebe Bridgers – Punisher

The solo artist, boygenius, and Better Oblivion Community Center member’s second album delivers modern perceptions on mental health and weighty musings on relationships, while displaying the effects and symptoms of…

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