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SEE: Otta’s ‘Sick Inside’ has a gorgeous, genre-busting fragility

SOUTH London-based, British-Finnish singer Otta is plotting an intriguing and sonically dazed course out on the creative fringes of singer-songwriter, lofi and soul. Her second EP, entitled Songbook, follows a…

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ALBUM REVIEW: Aārp – ‘Propaganda’

MAKE no mistake, the debut album from classically trained experimentalist Aārp has serious conceptual intent. Entitled Propaganda, and out now on Paris-Lyon-Berlin imprint InFiné, it is pointedly political. The title…

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TRACK: Home Counties’ ‘Dad Bod’ – fantastically Peel show awkward squad

IT WOULD seem the Bristol underground scene is in rude health. Last week we had a new download-only only round-up from Dorset boys moved uptown with a whole clutch of…

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ALBUM REVIEW: Yair Elazar Glotman and Mats Erlandsson – ‘Emanate’

FATCAT’s boutique 130701 imprint is one of the leading go-tos for the experimental edge of modern composition: that zone where classical bleeds and blends with modern rock and electronic thinking,…

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ALBUM REVIEW: Check Masses – ‘Nightlife’

FOR MY money, Edinburgh is the most beautiful first-division city in these isles. Its architecture, its hills, its views north and east over silvered cold seas. And, god, the culture.…

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TRACK: Jaga Jazzist’s “Spiral Era” remix is heading for other galaxies

GRADUALLY and cultishly, Norwegian octet Jaga Jazzist have been building probably the most interesting and wide-ranging catalogue in the modern jazz sphere; wholly unafraid of leaping genre fences, taking and…

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EP REVIEW: JOCKSTRAP – Wicked City: we’re not in Kansas anymore, Toto

WARP debutantes Jockstrap – the duo Georgia Ellery and Taylor Skye, jazz and electronics students respectively in a previous life – really do screw with the ol’ head, in the…

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Premiere: Tristan Welch – Asset / Defect

Washington D.C. experimental artist Tristan Welch has returned with a new single Asset / Defect, out tomorrow and taken from the cd of the same name and we’re delighted to…

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Album review: Windy & Carl – Allegiance and Conviction

DEARBORN, Michigan, isn’t necessarily a name that trips off the tongue when you think of musical powerhouses; but this little satellite city of Detroit is a quiet mecca for fans…

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Album Review: Warmer – Wooden Box with Strings

Warmer is the project of Nature Strip’s John Encarnacao – Backseat reviewed their last EP, Past Pacific, back in 2018. More recently the other main songwriter in The Nature Strip,…

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