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SEE: Modern Studies – ‘The Failing Light’: Scottish chamber folk outfit release new EP for Fire

WITH the afterglow of their May album The Weight Of The Sun still warming us, Scottish progressive chamber folk quartet Modern Light are still intent on riding the melodic winds…

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Album Review: Modern Studies – The Weight Of the Sun

With new album The Weight Of the Sun, Modern Studies haven’t actually changed the blueprint of their previous two albums, more adapted it. With the two main protagonists living apart,…

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Meet: Modern Studies talk three tracks ahead of The Weight of the Sun release

We’re big fans of kosmische folk-rock quartet Modern Studies, and we’re thoroughly looking forward to the release of the bands third album ‘The Weight of the Sun’, out this Friday…

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Album Review: Modern Studies – Welcome Strangers

Modern Studies’ first album was a lovely pastoral piece of folk-pop, built up around the sound of an old harmonium. Since then seemingly every hipster-Adam-Boyle-type has got themsleves a harmonium,…

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Album Review: Modern Studies – Swell To Great

It’s not that we ignored it – Its just that we completely missed September’s release of Modern Studies album Swell to Great, and as Matt H muses – more’s the…

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