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NEWS: Bill MacKay and Nathan Bowles announce April album; see the brilliant instrumental bluegrass of ‘Joy Ride’

BILL MACKAY, the Chicago-based guitarist, improviser of note and all-round scion of six strings, sure loves to enter into a two-way conversation with other artists with reliably beautiful results; witness…

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NEWS: Clark returns with March album for Deutsche Grammophon: hear ‘Small’

CLARK, the electronica voyager who came hurtling into our lives for Warp at the turn of the century and quickly decided his mission was to empty the bones of you…

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SEE: Nick Schofield – ‘Ambient Architect’: modular retro-futurism full of light and grace

NICK SCHOFIELD is a Montréalais composer in love with modular synths, and who has a new album, Glass Gallery, coming out early next month, composed entirely on the legendary Prophet…

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SEE: Indigo Sparke – ‘Everything Everything’: astonishing spectral folk

IF MARISSA NADLER, Aldous Harding, Joanna Newsom, Vashti Bunyan light up your world with otherworldly folk fire – and if they don’t, then maybe we can’t be friends after all…

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NEWS: The Peacers return with March set for Drag City; see ‘Irish Suit’

SIC ALPS were one of those bands which, with the amount of the talent in its ranks, could only burn bright and, like an unstable isotope, emit members to spin…

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Track: Tomahawk announce long-awaited return with ‘Business Casual’ and forthcoming album

TOMAHAWK, the long-dormant group comprising Duane Denison of The Jesus Lizard, Mike Patton and Trevor Dunn of Mr Bungle, and Helmet/Battles’ John Stanier, mark their grand return, following an eight-year…

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News: Mongolian Folk Metal Pioneers Nine Treasures to Release ‘Best Of’ Record

Few bands can claim to have an identity and sound as remarkable as Nine Treasures. Forming in 2010, one of the original Mongolian Folk Metal bands have one simple goal: to…

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TRACKS: Clémentine March – ‘Into The Distance’/’Éternité’

AN ECLECTIC, alt.folk(ish) singer-songwriter with a lovely, raggedy edge to her song fashioning, French-born but London based Clémentine March is close to a perfect match for Johnny Lynch’s Lost Map…

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NEWS: Telex announce ‘This Is Telex’ comp for Mute; see ‘Moskow Diskow’

BELGIAN synthpop originators ‘n’ pranksters Telex have announced they’re going into partnership with Mute, the very first realisation of which is a career retrospective in This is Telex, a new…

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TRACK: Bill Stone – ‘Purple’: lost psych-folk nugget gets a reissue

YOU MAY think we’ve been there, got the T-shirt, seen it all where it comes to long-lost psych singer-songwriters of the Sixties and Seventies. Yep, we’ve adored and come to…

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