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Droppin’ Knowledge: 03CAS, Hip Hop’s Monet, Creates Painterly, Impressionistic Music That Defies Easy Categorization

When the musician and experimental hip hop iconoclast 03CAS emigrated from South Africa to the United Kingdom, he landed at London’s Heathrow Airport with little more than the clothes on…

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Album review: Zoee releases new album ‘Flaw Flower’ and it’s a beautifully imperfect art-pop bouquet

Flaw Flower is the exciting debut LP from London-based musician Zoee, out now via Illegal Data. The new, solo record follows previous collaborations with Joe Goddard of Hot Chip and…

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Album Review: John Myrtle’s debut ‘Myrtle Soup’ brings the sunshine even when it rains.

In the week that John Myrtle’s debut album Myrtle Soup has released, the weather has shifted from blistering sun to pouring rain. There are drops tapping on my window as…

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lilo surface with the restrained elegance of debut single ‘Change’

London-based duo lilo may only now be getting started in earnest, but the creative partnership between Christie Gardner and Helen Dixon stretches back a decade. You may even have heard…

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Track: Wolf Alice bares their teeth with exciting new single ‘Smile’

Building up the anticipation for their new album entitled ‘Blue Weekend’, scheduled for release on 11 June via Liberator Music / Dirty Hit, the terrific Wolf Alice have released a second single ‘Smile’,…

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NEWS: John Myrtle wants to know “How Can You Tell If You Love Her?”, announces debut album Myrtle Soup

Great news from Birmingham-born Londoner John Myrtle today, from whom we last heard a couple of months ago with the sprightly teaser track from his upcoming debut album, “Get Her…

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Track and Album News: New Morning Blues announces debut album and single

New Morning Blues is a new folk collaborative project from wife and husband Joanna Backovic and Ian de Sylva. They’ve just released their first single, A Face in the Mirror, and…

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Track: Organ Morgan – Dracula’s Toothache

The barrel piano comes to life and you’re immediately in a rural hostelry a 100 years ago, merrily drinking ale and listening to the music coming from the smartly dressed…

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Track: Giant Sky release ‘Snow’, the dreamy paean to human connections in the face of adversity

‘Snow’ was written in tribute to the care and love given to London band Giant Sky‘s singer during the trials and tribulations of lockdown – it is a deeply romantic…

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Track: Philip Kane releases the dark, depraved and cathartic single ‘8 Stone, Tall and Handsome (ft Boz Boorer and Fiona Price)’

Philip Kane, formerly of London indie band Avalanche, has an incredible voice soaked in whiskey, pain and depravity. His new single ‘8 Stone, Tall and Handsome’ is an absolutely cathartic…

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