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Live review: Alabaster dePlume, The Cornish Bank, Falmouth, December 4th, 2021, plus gallery: a unique and sweary odyssey to Planet dePlume

“I LOVE this. I fucking love doing this.” Be aware: Angus Fairbairn, the poet, positivist and saxophonist who transposes into the world of music as Alabaster dePlume, is a completely…

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Track: Emma Kupa – ‘Happy Birthday’: loving your nearest and dearest and yourself with a sweet indie-folk tune for Lost Map

NOW THERE’S a good match between two of these isles’ loveliest indie-folk musical forces. Lost Map, the cottage caravan industry label run by Pictish Trail’s Johnny Lynch from his fastness…

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SEE: Sulka releases a lyric video for the lushly lofi, kitchen sink alt.pop of ‘Hollow Days’

SULKA is the vent for Glasgow-based Lukas Clasen to let loose lofi, low-key guitar loveliness out into our minds; and he’s just dropped a single culled from Take Care, his…

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TRACK: Pictish Trail – ‘Dream Wall’: hushed loveliness from the dream state

JOHNNY LYNCH who, besides running the dependably excellent Lost Map Records (which, being based, for most of us, up there on the Hebridean island of Eigg, isn’t lost from the…

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TRACK: Firestations – ‘The Circular’: bright as a button indiepop drop preludes March EP

LOST MAP’S quirkily lovely alt.popsters Firestations have released a really bright and moreish single, “The Circular”, ahead of their March EP, Melted Medium, which sings with a indiepop summeriness last…

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SEE: Firestations – ‘Small Island’

IN AN attempt to maintain focus on their bands in a time when gigs are not possible, Lost Map is launching the Automatic Tendencies initiative, a periodic release of EP…

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NEWS: Rozi Plain concludes subscriber-only V I S I T ▲ T I O N S series for Lost Map

LOST MAP RECORDS, the beautifully curated imprint run by The Pictish Trail’s Johnny Lynch from the Scottish island Eigg, has a second series of V I S I T ▲ T…

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SEE: the video for Kinbote’s ‘Hiemalis’: pretty, sampledelic glitch-pop teases December debut

A PRETTY, chopping, sampled sound source lays the foundation stone; a soft shuffle of percussion dovetails, and we see Matt Gibb, aka Kinbote, walking wistfully through the dunes; he’s very…

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