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ALBUM REVIEW: Tele Novella – ‘Merlynn Belle’: a quirky country-psych-folk charmer

Tele Novella's humble country-psych-folk sincerity is magic. They have, quite simply, a belief in the power of song. Timeless, quirky and utterly charming.

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ALBUM REVIEW: Tamar Aphek – ‘All Bets Are Off’: superb opening salvo from Tel Aviv power trio

Tamar Aphek takes the power trio thing and moves it forward into new psych-blues-rock territories with elegance and so much fire. She also might just be the best new noisy guitar stylist since Joey Santiago and John Dwyer. She's potent and has a voice of real elegance, and sonic firepower, and tunes, and the future is very, very bloody bright indeed

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Track: Mike Watt + The Black Gang – Rebel Girl

Bass legend covers a riot grrrl classic.

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SEE: Tele Novella – ‘Paper Crown’: The Great American Songbook remade in absolute sweetness

WITH their wholly seductive new album Merlynn Belle just around the corner now – eeep! exciting, it’ll be out on Kill Rock Stars on February 5th – Texas psych-European-retro-country duo Tele Novella…

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SEE: Tamar Aphek – ‘Russian Winter’: power trio scorcher will thaw your January

SHE’S pretty much already Tel Aviv’s favourite guitar-wielding daughter, Tamar Aphek; and if you like your power trios full of flame and energy and neo-psych atmospheres akin to the Jimi…

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SEE: Tele Novella – ‘Never’: a sweet song of loss and yearning with Super 8 footage

TEXAS TWOSOME Tele Novella, who memorably describe themselves on Twitter as “coin-operated medieval pop songs through a 1950s western lens” (and that’s totally on the money) have today released a…

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SEE: Tamar Aphek – ‘Drive’: a psych-blues stormer from Tel Aviv

ALREADY something of a guitar goddess in her native Tel Aviv, Kill Rock Stars, that seminal imprint that’s hosted the like of Elliott Smith, The Decemberists, Sleater-Kinney and more, have…

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NEWS: Kill Rock Stars sign Japanese garage-psychesters TEKE::TEKE – hear two tracks

RULE one: Japanese bands do brilliant, brilliant things with guitars: this is just fact. From the mind-blowing chaos of Melt-Banana to the heavy psych stylings of Acid Mothers Temple and…

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SEE: Tele Novella – ‘Words That Stay’: another beautiful, quirky lament

VINTAGE shop owner Natalie Ribbons and rare record collector Jason Chronis had been kicking around in various musical projects in Austin, Texas, but knew they could fashion something pretty special when they…

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SEE: Tele Novella – ‘Technicolor Town’: ramshackle and beautiful Texan alt.country

COMING atcha outta Austin, Texas, Tele Novella is currently the duo of vintage shop-owner Natalie Ribbons and Jason Chronis, who collects rare records. Tele Novella arose from the ashes of other musical projects…

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