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News: Jeff Lang unveils first single from upcoming album in intoxicating collaboration with John Butler, ‘Seek High’. Album tour news also announced.

3-time ARIA Award winning guitarist, Jeff Lang, has just released the ethereal Seek High as the first taster of his forthcoming album release, More Life. More Life sees Lang join…

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Live Review + Photo Gallery: Claire Anne Taylor bares her soul during ‘Giving It Away’ album launch 27.01.2024

I had the absolute pleasure of witnessing the Hobart leg of Claire Anne Taylor‘s album launch tour for new album, Giving It Away. Making the experience even more exciting was…

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News: The Paper Kites announce release date for new album, At The Roadhouse on back of gorgeous warmth of third single, Hurt’s So Good

Australian indie folk-rock darlings, The Paper Kites have announced that upcoming album, At The Roadhouse will be released on Friday, 1st September, 2023. Their sixth album, At The Roadhouse, is…

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News: ISAFØJRD Announce New Album”Hjartaskati” and Single “Falin Skemmd”

Icelandic post-rockers ISAFJØRD have announced their brand new album Hjartastjaki, coming via Svart Records. The first single taken from the upcoming release is ‘Falin Skemmd‘, an ethereal landscape of icy chills and cinematic warmth.…

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Album Review: HIGH ACE to Unveil Stunning Debut Album Release “Snowcap Menace”

Every now and then, a full-length LP/CD comes along that stops you dead in your tracks. Snowcap Menace is unmistakably one such album. The brainchild of Australian folk-rock husband &…

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See: Landscape-loving Leeds folksters Crake sign for Fika and reveal the breathy tranquillity of ‘Lamb’s Tail’

WITH a brace of cassettes, a couple of digital singles (2019’s “Dear Natalie” and this April’s Four Tracks) sandwiching a one-off 7″ for Nebraska’s Saddle Creek, “Enough Salt (For All…

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Album: The Pet Parade – Fruit Bats

Eric D Johnson, aka Fruit Bats, has been releasing the most warmly wonderful folk-rock cosmic-americana for the past 20 years and marks that anniversary with the release of glorious new…

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Track: The Waterboys – Why Should I Love You

The Waterboys have released the video for ‘Why Should I Love You’ from the critically acclaimed new album Good Luck, Seeker out now via Cooking Vinyl. Read our review here. ‘Why Should I…

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Track: Marika Hackman releases album of Covers and shares first track Grimes’s ‘Realiti

Marika Hackman returns with ‘Covers’, a darkly beautiful, self-produced new album which showcases a more vulnerable side, out 13th November via Transgressive in World-ex America and on Sub Pop in North and South…

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Track: The Waterboys – Low Down In The Broom

The Waterboys follow the recent release of their current upbeat pop single ‘The Soul Singer’ with the gorgeous arrangement of ‘Low Down In The Broom’. It is accompanied by a mysterious and atmospheric…

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