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Meet: Hannah Peel on her new album ‘Awake But Always Dreaming’, plus new show details

Hannah Peel, 2/3rds of Magnetic North and acclaimed singer songwriter, has released one of the years most lovely, intimate, emotional and beautiful records of the year in Awake but always…

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See: Lanterns on the lake reveal video for ‘The Crawl’, plus your dates

Lanterns On The Lake have been quiet of late, however, they’ve seen fit to furnish us with this sumptuous video for ‘The Crawl’, one of the stand out tracks from…

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See: Shirley Collins releases video for Death And The Lady

To go 38 years without releasing an album might be considered lackadaisical. But “Lodestar” from Shirley Collins beats even Vashti Bunyan for discography gaps. Now revealed from that record is…

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Album Review: Matt Berry – The Small Hours

Matt Berry has is someone who has stealthily raised his reputation in the music industry in recent years without the wider world really noticing, slowly but surely increasing his audience…

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Wilco : Schmilco

I can only imagine that at some point in an artist’s life taking yourself and your art so seriously can get pretty heavy. Eventually real life will start to outdo…

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Not Forgotten: Cat Stevens – Teaser and the Firecat

Teaser And The Firecat is in many ways the twin of the superb Tea for the Tillerman, which has been one of my favourite albums since my early teens and…

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Album Review: Dolly Parton – Pure and Simple

I can’t remember a time when I hadn’t heard of Dolly Parton. As I grew up during the 80s, Parton always seemed to be part of the cultural background noise,…

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Black and white image of the band Pascal Pinon

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Album Review: Pascal Pinon – Sundur

Pascal Pinon prove that absence makes their songwriting grow stronger with the chilling beauty of new album’ Sundur’. If Pascal Pinon’s 2013 album ‘Twosomeness’ was about sisters Ásthildur and Jófríður…

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Album Review: Peter Nordberg, Om man inte är här

Peter Nordberg puts his acoustic guitar to one side and fills your mind with detailed electronic soundscapes you can’t help but explore. It is not easy reviewing music when the…

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Live Review: Benji Tranter’s Dirty Laundry, Edinburgh Fringe Preview

Benji gently plays with his audience, sometimes sassing them, marvellous! His wit on stage is quick and sharp catching the audience off guard like a rabbit in headlights. His subtle…

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