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SEE: The Departure Lounge – ‘Mercury In Retrograde’: indie prodigals return on Michael Head’s label

SEVENTEEN long years away; but you can’t keep a decent indie songsmith gone forever. You may well recall the graceful indie of the Departure Lounge; they released two sweet and…

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NEWS: Cory Hanson announces second solo LP; see the country-psych grace of ‘Paper Fog’

CORY HANSON, singer-guitarist with LA psych seducers Wand, has today unveiled the video for “Paper Fog”, a very first preview of what’s to come from his second extra-curricular outing, Pale…

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NEWS: The Orb announce live stream date and remixes album – hear David Harrow’s rerub of ‘Haze’

SEMINAL techno groovesters and occasional pranksters of legend The Orb have a brace of excellently exciting news announcements for all you space cadets out there. Firstly, they’re gonna play their…

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NEWS: M. Ward announces Billie Holiday covers album; hear ‘For Heaven’s Sake’

YOUR humble scribe has loved Portland’s M. Ward since right back in the days of The Transfiguration of St Vincent – his beautiful 2003 album full of his mellifluous voice,…

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NEWS: Hanya announce tour dates; hear ‘Monochrome’

BRIGHTON’S gorgeous rising dreampop outfit Hanya, who we last heard of back in July, when they declared hometown label Austerity Records’ Cassette Club open with their very fine Sea Shoes…

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NEWS: The Wedding Present announce album of lockdown versions and more – see the stripped back ‘Crawl’

ALL THIS viral mess around us: it’s meant musicians have had to lock and load, get going as the going got tough. Plates, stepped up to. New ways adopted. New…

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NEWS: The Lathums’ one-only 7″ ‘The Snake’ raises £4,000 for the Latics

BACK in September we reported on Wigan’s indie chosen few, The Lathums, and the equal parts excellent and fun fundraising idea they’d got going in order to raise funds for…

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NEWS: Gazelle Twin & NYX announce March album – hear their distention of The Wicker Man’s ‘Fireleap’

GAZELLE TWIN: love her or baffled by her, you cannot deny the deep, artful, playful, pranksterish, eerie, sheer damn potency of her work. The creative extension of composer Elizabeth Bernholz, her…

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NEWS: Martha Ffion to play live-streamed session this week – see “Rosalie”

LOST MAP’s smoothly sweet singer-songwriter Martha Ffion is pleased as punch to announce (as should we be) a live-streamed session this week. The live sesh has been commissioned by Lost…

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TRACK: Phoebe Bridgers releases EP of orchestral reversions; hear ‘Kyoto’

LA’S lovely Phoebe Bridgers releases a new four-track EP, Copycat Killer, on Dead Oceans on December 4th; it features all-new recordings of songs from her critically acclaimed album Punisher from…

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