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Album Review: Lonelady – Hinterland

Manchester’s Julie Ann Campbell, aka LoneLady, piqued listeners’ interest with her debut album five years ago and has now returned with the remarkable Hinterland, an incredible hat tip to early…

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Album Review: Viet Cong – Viet Cong

“Newspaper Spoons” opens like a distant canon firing into the abyss. An overblown kick drum beats like a death knell before Matt Flegel sings “Writhing violence essentially without distortion, Wired silent,…

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Album Review: The Krayons – Ready, Steady, Nuke!

The original ‘angry young men’ were, as you may well know, a group of lower middle/working class writers from the 1950’s. Disillusioned by society, they weren’t afraid, and in…

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Album Review: Dead Leaf Echo – Thought & Language

Technically it’s not new out, but it’s pretty new to us. Brooklyn quartet Dead Leaf Echo released Thought and Language back in the spring, but we were only alerted to…

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New Music: Braxton Hicks – The Bench EP

Yeah, I know, you’ve heard the name. I’m not saying we don’t have history, or at least I don’t have history with Braxton Hicks. I’ve known lead singer Joe Hovis…

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Album Review: Killing Joke – Singles Collection 1979-2012

First up I need to declare an interest. I think Killing Joke are an amazing band. I loved them when they first emerged as part of that morass of styles…

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Album Review: White People and the Damage Done by Jello Biafra and the Guantanamo School of Medicine

I first came across The Dead Kennedys when I was in my early teens, I was obsessed with the singles chart at the time and they were a band who,…

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