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Track: Gabrielle Aplin – Shares New Single ‘Call Me’

Singer-songwriter Gabrielle Aplin returns with the release of her new single ‘Call Me’. Not only does it give an exciting taster of new music to come this year, it also marks a new era in her career,…

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Track: PYNGU’s ‘Everytime’ brings uplifting, bittersweet dance-pop futurism to the Christmas run-in

SOMETIMES it’s best to keep it short and sweet and let a track speak for itself. PYNGU is the reincarnation of the German DJ, artist and producer who could formerly…

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Track: Josephine Sillars – ‘I’ll See You When I See You’: heartfelt songwriting from a rising Highlands talent

THE LATEST instalment in the singles club run by Leeds grassroots organisation Come Play With Me – the label, zine, promoter and all round caring body active on the West…

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Track: Piel break out of LA with the sleek, filmic funk pop of ‘Custodian’

AFTER taking part in one of NPR’s essential Tiny Desk Concerts last week, which’ve hosted pretty much anyone who’s anyone in indie music, Los Angelino quartet Piel have released the…

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Track: Cornish singer Billie Flynn debuts with the wistful, breathy folk-pop of ‘Hey Stranger’

LIVING among the gnarly granite and crashing waves of Cornwall’s rugged north coast is no bad thing for creative inspiration and evocation; as debuting Cornish singer Billie Flynn knows, as…

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Track: Bellatrix fashions toxic romance into alt.pop silk with ‘Bad Love’

SHE’S got one of those brilliantly tonally expressive voices, which skips up and down the register with easy fluidity, flowing through the notes in the way Bjork does; but then,…

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News: New label Carrie launches with the Stevie Nicks elegance of Soft Focus’s ‘Easy For You’

MANCHESTER events site GigList is branching out from promoting music into giving it a specific platform of its own with the launch of a sister label, Carrie: an imprint that…

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Track: Wolves sings a sad leftfield pop of the relationship’s end on ‘The Dream That Woke’

WOLVES is how south-east Michigan’s Magdalen Fossum chooses to dress for the world of music, and from behind which lupine mask she brings a delicate, dreamy, chattering pop to the…

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Track: Jared Alto drops the haunting piano essay, ‘Stranger’

THE DRUNKEN phone call or text. Maybe to your ex, or a friend you’ve had recent beef with, or whomever; the advice the world over is simple; don’t do it.…

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TRACK: Amava – ‘Just Fine’: from Oregon to Nashville with a clutch of pure pop

AMAVA found herself not quite part of the gang after a move to Oregon early in her teenage years, for a slower pace of familial life; try as she might,…

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