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SEE: Jeremy Tuplin – ‘Night And Day’; new EP this Bandcamp Friday

DEEP THINKER and arch psych-folkster around town Jeremy Tuplin is releasing a new EP, entitled Happiness, this Bandcamp Friday, December 11th, which is sure to be a quartet of insouciant…

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ALBUM REVIEW: M. Ward – ‘Think Of You’: Portland guitar wonder seduces with Billie Holiday set

M. Ward's pulled off quite a neat trick here. Think Of You has many of the appurtenances of a seasonal album without quite being one. It could be M. Ward's best album in a good while, proving that all he really needs is some retro recording equipment and a guitar to be at his very best

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SEE: MF Tomlinson – ‘Strange Time’: rising alt.folk talent announces debut album

MICHAEL TOMLINSON is the main man in the sorta-solo project MF Tomlinson, in which he plys a very neat line in indie folk/roots songcraft with a grainy bearhug of a…

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EP REVIEW: Sophie Jamieson – ‘Release’: a brilliant, introspective four tracker

Her voice and songwriting are so very strong; there's no doubt Release is her best yet

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ALBUM REVIEW: Hjalte Ross – ‘Waves Of Haste’: gorgeous, nuanced indie-folk hits you in the chest

Composed at an isolated lighthouse on the Lofoten Islands, Hjalte's second reaches inside your chest and doesn't stop squeezing. Truly lovely

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NEWS: M. Ward announces Billie Holiday covers album; hear ‘For Heaven’s Sake’

YOUR humble scribe has loved Portland’s M. Ward since right back in the days of The Transfiguration of St Vincent – his beautiful 2003 album full of his mellifluous voice,…

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SEE: Adam Beattie – ‘Lovers Old & Lovers New’: a sweet yearn for lost nightspots

ADAM BEATTIE is a musician with a deep, noir romance beating in his chest, a romance tinged with the sadness of what we have lost; and this is particularly illustrated…

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SEE: The brilliant papercut animation for Elvis Perkins’ ‘See Monkey’

ELVIS PERKINS has dropped a beautiful papercut video for “See Monkey”, a brilliantly wry, songwriting auteur cut from his latest album, Creation Myths, which you can watch below. “See Monkey”…

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NEWS: Martha Ffion to play live-streamed session this week – see “Rosalie”

LOST MAP’s smoothly sweet singer-songwriter Martha Ffion is pleased as punch to announce (as should we be) a live-streamed session this week. The live sesh has been commissioned by Lost…

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TRACK: Phoebe Bridgers releases EP of orchestral reversions; hear ‘Kyoto’

LA’S lovely Phoebe Bridgers releases a new four-track EP, Copycat Killer, on Dead Oceans on December 4th; it features all-new recordings of songs from her critically acclaimed album Punisher from…

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