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See: Cistern reveal brilliant new video for the awkward beauty of new track Pendulum

Cistern’s new video for Pendulum is as wonderfully off-kilter as the song itself. Animated in stark black-and-white by Noah Varley, it feels like stepping into a surreal sketchbook that pulses…

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See: Nell & The Flaming Lips drop their take on the Nick Cave classic, ‘Red Right Hand’

IT’S the latest brilliantly wonky full-covers project from Wayne Coyne, Steven Drozd and the boys, whose new heady fwend is budding Canada-via-Yorkshire songsmith Nell, in the company of whom they’ve…

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News: As one heavenly body sets, another rises: Khruangbin and Leon Bridges announce their ‘Texas Moon’ EP – watch the video for ‘B-Side’

TO FLIP the orbs from the bright orange to the white, and after that impossibly catchy previous A in particular, “Texas Sun”, Khruangbin are once again joining forces with Leon…

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See: Midlake drop a live performance video for ‘Meanwhile …’ – they’re back with tour dates and an album for Bella Union in March

IT WAS a real boon for lovers of expansive, harmonic, suede-jacketed Americana back in October when Denton, Texas’s Midlake announced they were reconvening for their first album in jeez, nine…

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See: Thomas Dollbaum arrives fully formed with the Carveresque folk-blues of ‘Florida’

BORN and brought up in somewhere he notes as being Nowhere, Florida – trouble is indeed, a lonesome town – and currently using the musculature god blessed him with as…

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See: Penelope Isles share the video for ‘Have You Heard?’ ahead of their Islington gig on Saturday – and they’re criss-crossing the UK in the new year

WITH DESERVED rave reviews across the board for their second album, Which Way To Happy, out now digitally and with vinyl, cassette and CD following really early into 2022, the…

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See: Telefís – ‘Falun Gong Dancer’: Cathal Coughlan leads us round the weary world in sparse, grandstanding piano

CATHAL COUGHLAN has always been the straight-As kid with the (slightly demonic) pearly white smile and the pocket of stinkbombs in the school hall of indie music; he can’t resist…

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See: Alyssa Gengos shapes up for her 2022 album as a pretty awesome ‘Cheerleader Of The Universe’

LOS ANGELINO bedroom pop genius Alyssa Gengos is basically someone to completely watch in 2022. We’ve already nailed our colours to that mast on the back of her last single,…

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See: C Duncan brings the hymnal delicacy of ‘The Wedding Song’ to end the year – watch the animated lyric video

DELICATE Glaswegian songsmith C Duncan has doubled down on the glitter of last month’s single, “Alluvium”, with just one more song to round off the year and to keep you abreast…

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Track: El Ten Eleven share the grand alien (post-)funk of ‘New Year’s Eve’ and detail a massive tour

WITH our ears still ringing and our souls still swooning while getting our heads round last year’s conceptual triple album, Tautology, (No! come back this instant! For it (post) rocks…

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