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Album review: The Jazz Butcher – ‘The Highest In The Land’: one final pop postcard from Northampton’s foremost gent

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Album review: Mumble Tide – ‘Everything Ugly’: a short, sweet-as mini-album burst from the insouciant Bristolians on their way to massive things

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Album review: Penelope Isles – ‘Which Way To Happy’: Jack and Lily line up a second set of ambitious, technicolour pop psych

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“When I moved to New York, a lot of people were making really interesting electronic music and manipulating sounds, and I was really kind of bummed—there were no songs. And I really wanted to hear songs,” says Josh Da Costa of CMON. With former Regal Degal band mate Jamen Whitelock, the two formed CMON, swapping …

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M. Ward

‘Migration Stories’ is the latest album from prolific writer, producer and performer M. Ward. It is out on Anti Records on 3rd April. The world is currently living through an unprecedented period of travel restrictions with many countries in lockdown and ‘Migration Stories’ feels like a meditation on the exact opposite of that reality. It’s …

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Blaine Harrison wants to punch you in the face. But I don’t know, I don’t think he would. He seems too nice. He wants The Mystery Jets’ new album to “slam against your ear drums” with guitars that “feel like they are right there in front of you;” he says this album is “much more …

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Munich based quartet KYTES are set to run on an upward trajectory in 2020, with new album ‘Good Luck’ the follow up to “Heads & Tales” released back in 2016. They seem have taken a more direct approach to bringing in new listeners to their Indie-Electronic-Pop, and this full length smacks of new horizons, although the core …

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Nearly four years after their 2015 debut ‘HiFi Classics’, South London indie gang Meatraffle are finally releasing its follow-up, ‘Bastard Music’. It features the band making various left-wing yet parochial observations about modern life to a twee, whimsical musical backdrop. The album’s first song opens with the sound of the titular cyclops snoring and this …

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I’ve spent many a hazy night in student bars and indie clubs singing along to Feeder’s huge hit Buck Rogers. I’ve drunkenly wailed out ‘I think we’re gonna make it,’ and in my inebriated state thought, you know what? I think we are. It’s one of those songs that has continued to be played throughout …

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Not quite a new player on the scene, Jaco, aka Jake Waitzman, has released his debut album packed with power pop, a zest for indie/garage pop and chorus’, and it’s an enjoyable 11 song romp. In actual fact, the Birmingham, Alabama man has spent the majority of his career behind a drum kit, playing with …

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My relationship with the music of The Hold Steady is one that has evolved since I first heard their music back in 2007. I’d originally heard their name mentioned in passing a couple of times before I chanced my arm with their debut when I saw it cheap, however the first time I heard Almost …

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Album cover artwork for Malin Head by Ardentjohn

Ardentjohn provide the perfect summer mix of sunshine and showers on their poignant new album Malin Head. Although the band was originally formed in Edinburgh, the members of Ardentjohn – Mark Abbott (lead guitar), Seth Marron (drums/percussion), Keiron Mason (vocals/guitar), Alan Shields (vocals/bass) and Linda Tym (cello/vocals)  – now hail from all over. Maybe its …

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It may not be a new release, but Sonic Youth’s show at Battery Park, NYC on July 4th 2008 is out now commercially and is a document of a band at their very height of its power. At one point, when trying to work out who starts one of the tracks, Thurston Moore echoes Lee …

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