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Premiere: Shadow Show push back against the trap of nostalgia on ‘Aunt Maizy’, new album out next month

Detroit trio Shadow Show came out swinging in 2020 with their debut album Silhouettes, making their mark before the pandemic and breaking out the following year, introducing the world to…

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News: Rubber Oh share the mercury-like ooze and electronic hum of ‘Nothing’, and reveal debut album details

Sam Grant, guitarist and producer of the Sabbath-infused, sludgy rockers Pigs x7, first announced the arrival of his solo project Rubber Oh with the fuzz-tinged ‘Little Demon’ earlier this year.…

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PREMIERE: LUMBEROB serves up some ‘FRIEDLEGGINGS’ as he releases his debut album

No idea what Rob Erickson is doing in that press photo up there but we’d be doing the same thing if we had an album out today. Speaking of, New…

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PREMIERE: Curtis Godino Presents The Midnight Wishers debut ‘No Place Like Home’, announce album for February

Sounding like a fully realised trip back in time, the debut single from Curtis Godino Presents the Midnight Wishers introduces listeners to the trio under the stewardship of Godino, as…

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PREMIERE: TWÏNS searches for ‘Peace’ as he announces album for April

He’s been drip-feeding us new music over several years but the Berlin-based Miro Denck has finally got an album on the way. Otherwise known as TWÏNS, Denck began 2021 by…

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See: Harkness gestures to a prettier, baroque pop world beyond the virus with ‘Moon Spell’

HARKNESS is a beautiful musical enigma wrapped up inside a conundrum wrapped inside a rather fetching, actuellement, mask and gown; from within which couture he has a very personal line…

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Premiere: Etai surveys an era of turbulence and unrest on ‘Summer of Ghosts’

Etai Fuchs (also of Baltimore band Moon By Moon) released his debut solo album Bloodletting in January of last year, a skeletal gem that could have passed for a live…

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Track: Harkness – ‘The Occasion’: a cloak, a mask and a grand line in orchestral baroque pop from the mysterious Canadian

THE MYSTERIOUS, cloaked and visored figure you see is Harkness; as with Bob Log III, we know not who sits behind the guise. Best then to turn to what we…

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See: Barnaby Keen – ‘Trust Me’: a little languorous neo-psych sunshine

LONDON singer-songwriter and producer Barnaby Keen brings a little languorous neo-psych sunshine into our lives with his second single as just himself, “Trust Me”, out now on all digital streaming…

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Track: E.R. Jurken – ‘John Doe’: a single drop of melodic harrow ahead of Friday’s album

E.R. JURKEN is a singer-songwriter with a deeply moving, beautiful and fragile take on psych-pop with a 1968 Anglophile twist and a Neutral Milk Hotel twirl to his aesthetic, for…

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