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Album Review: Tame Impala – Currents

Okay, so I’ve listened to Tame Impala’s excellent new album Currents several times now. Like everyday, twice a day, since last Friday. I can say very confidently that it’s a masterpiece. Kevin…

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Tracks: Shannon And The Clams – Corvette

Corvette is the first single from the forthcoming Shannon And The Clams album Gone By The Dawn, due for release on 11 September. This is a song that begins sweetly…

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Album Review: Act – Love and Hate – A compact introduction to Act

One of the blink and you’ll miss it bands from the time of synth-pop revolution, Act flashed and burnt out, pretty much before anyone noticed. The duo, Thomas Leer and…

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Track: Department M – Bleak Technique

Initially the project of Leeds’ Owen Brinley, Department M has developed into a growing concern, a full live band in fact that includes Tommy Davidson from Pulled Apart By Horses.…

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Track: Wild Ones – Show Me islands

We’re not quite used to heat waves here in the north of England, so when we get one, like today (the hottest July day on record, apparently) we get all…

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See: Bob Moses reveal video for Talk, plus album and tour details

There’s something calming yet unsettling about Talk, the new single from Canadian duo Bob Moses (aka Tom Howie and Jimmy Vallance). It grows out of this cross rhythm laced opening,…

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Premiere: Daisy and the Dark release video for Red Planet

Recently I wrote about there being something about the Jones’s…Mr Jones (Counting Crows), (Me and) Mrs Jones (Billy Paul) and then Mrs Jones by Pearl TN. This week I want…

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News: Florence and the Machine announce September Tour

Riding at the top of the world right now is Florence and her Machine. Fresh from the news that her recently released third album ‘How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful’…

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Video: Kat Eaton records two exclusive session tracks for Backseat Mafia

We’ve followed the trajectory of Kat Eaton for quite a while now, the Sheffield singer songwriter seemingly able to mix up pop and soul to make something that is not…

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Not Forgotten: Harry Nilsson – Son of Schmilsson

Having a hit with “Without You”, the power-ballad that still out power-ballads all other power-ballads, had left Harry Nilsson in a uniquely enviable position of being a vastly talented singer…

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