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Premiere: Dominic Waxing Lyrical releases new video for ‘Susan Sontag’, plus UK tour dates

Ahead of the release of Dominic Waxing Lyrical’s new album ‘Rural Tonic’, which drops on 21st April via Tenement Records, we’re delighted to premiere the new video for his new…

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Album Review: Alasdair Roberts – Pangs

Authenticity is one of the great over-rated qualities in music. But there’s no harm in a bit of study and knowledge. Alasdair Roberts’ route into recording might have been through…

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Track: Alexander Wolfe – I can’t get to sleep

By Pete Wilding Alexander Wolfe has really dig deep for the first teaser from his yet-to-be announced fourth solo album, a raw but thoroughly engaging testimony of the debilitating effects…

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Album Review: Julian Cope – Drunken Songs

Few artists can claim to have ploughed such a rich and bizarre furrow as Julian Cope. From scouse-pop Smash Hits pin-up, calling at Scott walker acid casualty, via stone(d) circle…

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Album Reviews

Album review: Phat Bollard – Brew for the Barrowman

For those not in the know Phat Bollard are a Cornish folk band that spend their days busking on the streets, going from city to city. They’re more at home…

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Classic Album: Jethro Tull – Songs From the Wood

The rise of punk triggered a wide variety of reactions among more established acts. Led Zeppelin nodded in approval, and continued to be Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd channelled their own…

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Track / Video

Track: Jesse Jo Stark – Driftwood

With the combination of a peacefully constructed composition and lyrics that show elements of a country inspired noir tale; ‘Driftwood’ by Jesse Jo Stark is an equally haunting and captivating…

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Live Review: Tift Merritt at The Lexington, London, 31.1.2017

On this last day in January, with the rain pouring down in the cloying cold outside, upstairs at the Lexington is snug. There’s a dampness in the air as we…

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Album Review: Nadine Khouri – The Salted Air

Nadine Khouri The Salted Air There is a delicate quality to Nadine Khouri’s voice when you are first introduced to her; a hushed, bewitching quality that is equally earnest as…

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Track / Video

Track: Agnes Obel – Stretch your eyes, plus new London date news

Stretch your eyes is the new single from Danish star Agnes Obel, the fourth taken from her critically acclaimed album Citizen of Glass. It Obel’s most successful album to date…

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