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Album Review: Basia Bulat – The Garden

Canadian chanteuse Basia Bulat has revisited and reworked tracks from her previous five albums on latest release, ‘The Garden’. It’s out on Secret City Records on 25th February, initially only…

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Track: Gallery 47 – Angel Follows Me Out

Ultra prolific Nottingham singer-songwriter, Gallery 47, releases “Angel Follows Me Out”, the first single from his 12th album release “Saturation”. It was one of four (that’s right!) albums released in…

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Exclusive: The Brothers Landau release At Home Session version of Haven’t Got A Name

We’ve featured indie-folk duo The Brothers Landau (aka David Landau on cello and vocals, and multi-instrumentalist, singer and guitarist brother Daniel) before, and were absolutely delighted when the brothers agreed…

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Album Review – Emmy the Great: April /月音

Emmy the Great (Emma-Lee Moss) released her fourth album on October 9th. ‘April /月音’ (the Chinese script, which translates as ‘Moon Sound’ on Google Translate but is given as ‘Mid-Autumn’…

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Track: Hayfitz – Hold on

Los Angeles-turned-Brooklyn based multi-instrumentalist Brandon Hafetz goin under the name ‘Hayfitz’ shares his new single ‘Hold On,’ from his upcoming debut album ‘Capsules’, out May 29th. Hayfitz has created a sombre…

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Track: Runaway Belles – The Weekend

Right before the isolation iron curtain came thundering down on live gigs, I caught an impressive performance from PARKER (Tash Parker with her band) supporting the brilliant Costume – read…

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Track: Nick Byrne – Houses

Inspired by a trip to Liverpool where he saw houses and streets falling into disrepair, Houses is the new single from singer-songwriter Nick Byrne. The track itself is a little…

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Siobhan Wilson 'There Are No Saints' album cover

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Album Review: Siobhan Wilson – There Are No Saints

Siobhan Wilson provides the heavenly soundtrack to heartbreak and healing with her second album ‘There Are No Saints’. After returning to Scotland from Paris five years ago, Siobhan Wilson moved…

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Track / Video

Track: Lou Rhodes – All the birds

All the birds is the first glimpse of Lamb’s Lou Rhodes fourth solo album – theyesandeye, out on July 22nd via the newly re-established Nude Records. Moving alongside her work…

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See: Andrew Bird releases new video for Left Handed Kisses featuring Fiona Apple

Taken from his forthcoming album Are you Serious, due out on April 1st via Loma Vista, Left Handed Kisses is the new single from Andrew Bird. If that were not…

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