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See: Blue States – ‘Plain Sight’ feat. Rachael Dadd – a step into folktronica from Andy Dragazis ahead of his sixth album

BLUE STATES, the lovely downbeatz project of Sussex’s Andy Dragazis, is following last year’s necessary and expanded repressing of his classic album Nothing Changes Under The Sun with another peek…

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Premiere: The Jazz Butcher – ‘Time’: RIP, Pat, but there’s one final album in store and a celebratory gig in Camden this weekend

THE JAZZ BUTCHER is one of those artists who make indiepop kids of a certain generation go misty eyed, and with good reason; Pat Fish, the man behind the jazz…

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See: The ghostly soundtrackery of The Arteries of New York City’s ‘Capable’; the album’s on its way to a full release

NO, AND you’d be forgiven for thinking it with the name they trade under, but the experimental ambient duo The Arteries of New York City isn’t some semi-psychogeographical project arising…

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Premiere: Sydney’s Marveline serves up a darker dose of pop with the synth buzz of ‘Evil Worm’, and announces launch gig.

The solo work of Pete Marley (from The Nature Strip) under the name Marveline, has always delivered the most exquisite, intelligent and articulate pop, and we are honoured to be…

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Track: Spanish ambient explorers Suso Sáiz and Menhir combine for the deep, pristine drift of ‘Alike’ ahead of their album for Spirituals

HE MAY Not be quite as familiar a name on these shores, but in Spain Suso Sáiz is something of an Eno figure; a pioneer of ambient and minimalist music…

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See: DITZ get fiery ‘n’ wiry on declamatory new single, ‘The Warden’, extend their tour into next year

BRIGHTON’S DITZ, who, on more than one occasion this year we’ve found the overwhelming urge to catapult into the perspiring throng to, only to find our living rooms sadly lacking…

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Track: Erin Rae glides into an album and tour in the new year on the psych-country of ‘Candy & Curry’

WITH a sweet, hook-laden but straighter country-pop number, “Modern Woman”, dropping last month, Nashville’s Erin Rae has revealed a more gossamer, delicate psych-folk side to her forthcoming third album in…

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News: New Zealand’s pop prodigy BENEE announces world tour for 2022 and releases exquisite shimmering single ‘Doesn’t Matter’

New Zealand pop sensation BENEE has just announced her first world tour since the pandemic struck, with forty shows scheduled in the northern hemisphere (Europe and the UK in April-May and North…

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See: North Carolina’s Owen FitzGerald invites you to his outsider country confessional, ‘Bismuth, The Last Gentleman’

HE’S a gentleman of the leftfield country music scene, is Durham, North Carolina’s Owen FitzGerald who, after appearing in the music world as Jokes&Jokes&Jokes awhile, has returned to his ‘government…

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News: Sweeping Promises sign for Sub Pop and bring you the post-punk stomp of ‘Pain Without A Touch’, reveal tour dates our side of the pond

SUB POP has made another fine addition to its roster with Sweeping Promises, who come extruding outta the campus town of Lawrence, Kansas with the post-punkery of “Pain Without A…

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