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ALBUM REVIEW: Box of Chocolates – ‘Fearful Symmetry’: early Brooklyn stirrings from Will Oldham, et al

EVERY era of music has those great, lost nuggets which slip out, are adored by the knowing few, lost to the many; are whispered about and traded for ever-inflating sums…

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Exclusive: Lindsay Munroe records ‘Split’ live in session for Backseat Mafia

Manchester singer-songwriter Lindsay Munroe recently released her debut EP ‘Our Heaviness‘, which caught the ear of, amongst others, Sharon Van Etten, while we loved River taken from EP. We were…

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Track: Soap – Memento

Soap have just released their vibrant debut single ‘Memento’ and it augurs well for this young bunch of musicians from Wynnum, a suburb of the outskirts of Brisbane. The band…

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EP: !!! (chk chk chk)- Certified Heavy Kats

The new EP by the leviathans of the dance-punk genre, arriving nearly two decades after their self-titled debut, vents as much creativity and unrelenting magnetism to dance (or nod the…

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SEE: El Goodo – ‘Things Turn Around’: how to turn a rubbish day into 6/8 beauty

IT’S a lovely little thing, the world of West Wales’ El Goodo. Things might well be a bit pants, they really might, but they have the tools to fashion the…

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Exclusive: Fake Turin’s record At Home Session of ‘Legs’ for Backseat Mafia

A while ago we premiered Leg’s, Fake Turins latest single. We were enamoured by the indie rock of the backing over this intelligent spoken word poetry over the top, and…

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Album Review: The Wee Cherubs – The Merry Makers

The ever-reliable Optic Nerve label are shedding some light on this obscure gem of a band who featured Martin Cotter, later to resurface in The Bachelor Pad, (chiefly remembered for…

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Track: Jack Bratt – The Outsider

The last time we covered Jack Bratt, he had just been awarded the prestigious Grant McLennan Fellowship jointly funded by the Queensland Government through Arts Queensland and the Australian Performing…

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Track: Death Bells – Heavenly Bodies

At the core of Death Bells are an Australian duo who relocated to Los Angeles in 2018 and after an initial EP, signed on to Dais Records. They have just…

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SEE: Ganser – ‘Projector’: a post-punk despatch from our dystopia

IT CHARGES at you on wiry guitar and rumbling tom-toms, a shadowy simmer. We’re in a lecture theatre, with vocalist and keyboard player Nadia Garafalo demure in a sweater: our…

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