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Album Review: Yann Tiersen – Rathlin from a Distance | The Liquid Hour; a immersive two part journey from solo expressive piano to urgent electronics

On Ninnog – out now via Mute Records, Yann Tiersen delivers an ambitious and deeply personal double album that journeys from delicate, introspective piano meditations to full-bodied electronic eruptions. Split…

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News: The magnificent Crime and the City Solution embark on killer UK/Europe tour to promote first album in ten years.

With Simon Bonney at the helm since it formed in Australia in 1977, the stateless Crime and the City Solution have been haunting and mesmerising audiences with their ethereal, dark…

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See: Mute to release SUICIDE career retrospective; see new short film including previously unreleased version of Frankie Teardrop

SUICIDE, the celebrated and increasingly thought of as seminal duo of Alan Vega and Martin Rev, is to have their first collection – Surrender, released via the ever brilliant Mute…

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News: CAN’s next live instalment gets release date

Earlier this year, the grand archives of Can’s long dormant live bootlegs were reopened to the public, with the series started by the band’s legendary 1975 performance in Stuttgart. Irmin…

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Track: Martin Gore reveals mesmerising ANNA remix of Howler

Speech Mode mainstay Martin Gore has recently released his new EP The Third Chimpanzee, on the ever brilliant Mute Records. Howler, taken from the release, has now been remixed by…

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Track: Depeche Mode’s Martin Gore releases new track, Howler

Taken from his forthcoming 5 track instrumental EP, The Third Chimpanzee, out on January 29th, Depeche Mode stalwart and (increasingly) sonic experimenter Martin Gore has a new track out right…

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SEE: The video for A Certain Ratio’s ‘Berlin’: UK dates for 2021

MANCHESTER legends A Certain Ratio, whose brilliant new album ACR Loco will be with us on Mute come September 25th, have just dropped the video for the none-more-Mancunian effortless pop…

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News: The Knife celebrate 20 years with reissue / unreleased music series

Karin and Olof Dreijer well loved electronic pairing The Knife are celebrating 20 years since the release of their first 7” by releasing their catalogue via their own imprint Rabid Records,…

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SEE: Daniel Blumberg – ‘On & On & On & On & On’: pushing songcraft into new shapes

THERE’S really no point in gathering together fancy wordsmithery here: if you like your music tending towards to the acoustic auteur with a personal vision, an artist who’s not necessarily…

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TRACK: A Certain Ratio return with new single “Always In Love”

A CERTAIN RATIO are back with a new album, ACR Loco. Revitalised by their most successful tour in over two decades, the band returned to the studio to record their first album…

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