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News: Cheval Sombre to release a new EP, including a Dead cover – see the video for ‘Althea’

CHRIS PORPORA, the artist whose twin album releases from earlier this year, Time Waits For No One and Days Go By, are the gentlest, brittlest sucker punches to the heart…

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Album review: Cheval Sombre – ‘Days Go By’: Chris Porpora’s second of the year delivers an airy, dreamy space-folk coda

IT’S ONLY his fourth album at all in the catalogue; the second, Mad Love, was almost nine years ago now; but the third, Time Waits For No One, is only…

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Album review: Cheval Sombre – ‘Time Waits For No One’: a luxuriant, timeless and meditative return

Time Waits For No One is not without its darknesses, its sadnesses, but they're approached with the calm, supplicant grace that sits right in the heart of such feelings; and it is bloody beautiful. It's an amulet, a perfect prescription; you can use it to ward off the world. Really, do

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Say Psych: News: Sonic Boom announces ‘Almost Nothing Is Nearly Enough’ – a re-working of 2020’s ‘All Things Being Equal’

To Sonic Boom’s Pete Kember, re-imagining the past can lead to ways forward on life’s natural, interconnected path. In April of 2020, he released his first album in over 20…

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SEE: The video for Cheval Sombre’s ‘Curtain Grove’: a thrilling, delicate highlight from his new album; a song of the year?

WE’RE a way towards the release of Chris Porpora, aka Cheval Sombre’s, first album in eight years, Time Waits For No One; brighter days to come, seasonally and musically, for…

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NEWS: Cheval Sombre announces February album for Sonic Cathedral

CHRIS PORPORA makes very, very beautiful and hushed music as Cheval Sombre – and makes it very much at his own pace; he is, as we shall see, very much…

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SEE: Cheval Sombre returns with the hazy hush of ‘It’s Not Time’

HE’S BEEN away from our ears as a solo artist for what? Crikey it’s actually eight years now, how the egg-timer sands run; but Chris Porpora, who guises up for…

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TRACK: Camila Fuchs – ‘Come About’: spectral electronic pop out of Lisbon

CAMILA DE LABORDE, who hails from Mexico City, and Münchner Daniel Hermann-Collini have been recording together as Camila Fuchs since encountering each other in London back in 2012. The band released their…

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Say Psych: Album Review: Sonic Boom – All Things Being Equal

It’s auspicious that Sonic Boom—the solo project and nom-de-producer of Peter Kember (Spectrum, Spacemen 3) returns in 2020 with its first new LP in three decades. Kember was drawn to…

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Track: Sonic Boom – The Way You Live

Taken from his first album in 30 years, Sonic Boom – aka Peter Kember (Spectrum, Spacemen 3) has released The Way You Live, with the album, All Things Being Equal,…

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