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News: A Certain Ratio reveal details of ‘ACR:EPC’; see the video for the wired dazzle of ‘Emperor Machine’

MANCHESTER’S legendary proponents of the post-punk soulful funk A Certain Ratio, fresh from the release of their excellent ACR:EPA EP, four tracks from the final session that the band laid…

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Track: Birthday Ass – ‘Plubbage Bubbage’: flicking the Vs at punk and jazz and making them dance with abandon

PRIYA CARLBERG, singer and wayward guiding light behind the fun as hell and wonderfully weird punk-funk concoction of Birthday Ass, won’t be drawn on the meaning of the title of…

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Track: Birthday Ass – ‘Sunlit Toes’: a second angular punk-funk drop teases for the April album

BIRTHDAY ASS have it fully goin’ on at 45 degrees to the rest of our heads, that’s a fact. They take their inspiration from new wave, no-wave, jazz, punk-funk, get…

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Track: Home Counties – ‘White Shirt / Clean Shirt’: another punk-funk capitalist critique from brilliant Bristolians

FRESHLY pressed and starched, collars buttoned just so, Home Counties are back pursuing an ever more addictive, spasming line in capitalist critique encapsulated in wiry, fractured punk-funk. It’s like The…

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See: Birthday Ass – ‘Blah’: zero-fucks no-wave punk-funk fun!

PRIYA CARLBERG, vocalist with no-wave post-punk melange-stirrers Birthday Ass, has a vision deliciously at right angles with the world; jump in, but jump in sideways, with their new single “Blah”.…

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Home Counties – ‘Modern Yuppies’: angular punk-funk takes on the consumerist dream

HOME COUNTIES who, despite the name, are a five-piece happy to gaze askance at all the weird doings of modernity from the safety of Bristol, release their third, three-minute dose…

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