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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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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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Track: Vintage Fiction – ‘Alright, Okay’: a little nugget of sundazed LA psych-pop bliss

YOU CAN so hear it their sound, if you ask me: the sun. The West Coast gleams through those burnished guitars, those dusky vocals, fair glows from the song as…

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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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TRACK: Hilma Nikolaisen -‘All In (Into The Outset)’: Sereena-Maneesh alumnus brings the psych sunshine

FORMERLY bassist with Oslo’s premiere psychedelic explorers Sereena-Maneesh, Hilma Nikolaisen has unveiled a carefree, summery tune, “All In (Into The Outset)”, as a teaser for her third solo album, Heritage, out…

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