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EP Review: Yaya Bey chronicles heartbreak and self-reflection on ‘The Things I Can’t Take With Me’- out today

An impactful, cradle-to-grave reflection of self, Yaya Bey’s new EP The Things I Can’t Take With Me came together unexpectedly. Bey was set to record her next album when she…

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Say Psych: Track Review: Alan Vega – Fist

Iconic musician, poet and visual artist Alan Vega was an uncompromising visionary. His work proved informative in the invention of industrial, synth/post punk and his rousing lyrics were always a mirror of…

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Track: Career Boy unleash a fierce storm in excoriating single ‘Scam Jam’

‘Scam Jam’ by New York’s Career Boy is a blistering rocket fueled by scything guitars and an insistent, ceaseless rhythm section and a kind of punk poetry visceral blast. There…

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See: the video for the supernatural psych-folk of Nainnoh’s ‘Colors’

NEW YORK-based Nainnoh has a particularly supernatural way with psychedelic folk, perhaps casting herself in a lineage that casts back to Dr. John, Buffy Saint-Marie, Espers and others. There’s something…

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Say Psych: News: Sacred Bones to release lost Alan Vega LP, Mutator & Share Video to ‘Nike Soldier’

Sacred Bones Records will release the lost album from Alan Vega, Mutator, on 23 April. Vega’s name is synonymous with unfettered creativity, from the late 1950s, through his years playing in Suicide, and all the way up until his…

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NEWS: Hamilton Leithauser announces new album, live launch stream

HAMILTON LEITHAUSER, the massive voice behind such The Walkmen hits as “The Rat” and “In The New Year”, has announced a new album – a live set – and to…

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PREMIERE: The Galaxy Electric – ‘Tomorrow Was Better Than Yesterday’: retrotronics to watch Earthrise

THE GALAXY ELECTRIC is American husband and wife duo Augustus and Jacqueline, who adore the music of the past of the future: that sweet, groovy as hell, jetpack-sporting and pristine…

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TRACK: hear the retro yearn of Elvis Perkins’ ‘See Through’ – a world where people dance alone

A NEW YORK auteur with an eye for the beauty of a song steeped in the good stuff of muted bass-string riffs clicking away, a sturdy brass section and the…

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ALBUM REVIEW: Bing & Ruth – ‘Species’ – majestic and meditative

SOMETIMES the cliches can ring true. It’s a marriage made in heaven. Take 4AD, Ivo Watts-Russell beautiful stable, which has given us such moments as … well, Victorialand. Need we…

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Say Psych: Track Review: The Vacant Lots – Fracture

‘Fracture’ is the second single to come from Interzone, the third full-length album by New York’s electro post-punk duo The Vacant Lots which genre-blends a synthesis of dance and psych,…

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