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Album Review: Fantuzzi – ‘An Open Heart’ : Re-issue of the Woodstock visionary’s absorbing seventies debut.

Following on from the exquisite folk-rock curio ‘Stargazer’ by Shelagh McDonald, DJ and selector Oz Adams’ Different Strokes For Different Folks label brings more crate diggers’ grail with ‘An Open…

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Track: Washington’s Weeed bring an opulent flute sway to the psych of ‘Do You Fall?’

WEEED are a psych-stoner quartet who began hanging out and rocking the weirder, spliffy end of music together as teenagers, growing up so near yet quite separately to one of…

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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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See: LA’s Independent Project unveil Alison Clancy with the brooding, potent ‘Mutant Gifts – Live At St John’s’

SHE’S a multivalent creative force who moved from the mountains of California up to New York to pursue a creative life; but the potent, brooding and mantric gem that is…

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See: Samana drop the languorous, calm-before-the-storm psych-folk of ‘The Beach’; announce an album and tour for ’22

WITH one fully acclaimed record of super-atmospheric, haunting psych-folk under their belts – 2019’s Ascension, for FatCat – and also having spent a couple of years rebuilding an 18th-century farmhouse…

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Album review: Fuzzy Lights – ‘Burials’: Cambridge psych-folk prodigals grow a faerie ring of psych-folk, post-rock and more to lay your troubled bones within

IT’S BEEN all of eight years now since Cambridgeshire post-folk collective Fuzzy Lights have graced our ears with an album, that being Rule Of Twelfths; but the planets have aligned…

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See: The esoteric psilocybin dream of Fuzzy Lights’ ‘Sirens’: fine fenland acid folk preludes next week’s new album

A HIATUS of eight years hasn’t dimmed Fuzzy Lights as mysterious musical force, not one bit; quite the opposite, in fact. They’ve a new album, Burials, out at the end…

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See: Fuzzy Lights – ‘Under The Waves’: returning Cambridge folk-rockers add some feedback fire to the blend

HAILING from Cambridge with a potent elixir of acid/post-folk, Fuzzy Lights are moving towards the release of their first full-length set in more than eight years with the full-on drone-psych…

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See: Fuzzy Lights – ‘Maiden’s Call’: wood-smoky acid folk beauty from returning Cambridge collective

IT’S BEEN all of eight years now since Cambridgeshire post-folk collective Fuzzy Lights have graced our ears with an album, that being Rule Of Twelfths; but the planets have aligned…

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Album review: E.R. Jurken – ‘I Stand Corrected’: a psych-folk debut full of catharsis and melody

E.R. Jurken's first full missive into the world reveals quite the saddest tale at an angle, never telling, always hinting. It also shows an absolute grasp of songcraft, of melody, and an abiding love of British psych-pop and later American geniuses such as Neutral Milk Hotel and Elliott Smith

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