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TRACK: Blush Club release new single ‘Ornamental Ponds’, title track from new EP set for release in September

Glasgow’s Blush Club return with ‘Ornamental Ponds’, the first single and title track from their forthcoming EP set for release in September. It follows on from the charismatic guitar pop…

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News: Stephen Malkmus’ cover of Can’s ‘Ege Bamyasi’ released online

CAN’S psychedelic-krautrock classic Ege Bamyasi – the record which seismically shifted the current and future musical landscape many times over, and which further cemented the band’s status in the Krautrock…

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TOP TEN: Fair Mothers’ Kevin Allan picks the albums that made the difference

Aberdeenshire's Kevin Allan releases his second LP of this most universally fraught year today, August 7th. Valentine's Day brought us 'Separate Lives', which was necessarily championed by Stuart Maconie on his 6Music Freakzone. 'In Monochrome' is an absolute stunner, we find. Raw, chilled, unblinking in the face of life, Kevin makes promises no answers. But what he does do is communicate with you, proffer you emotional information; learn alongside him. 'In Monochrome' is unflinching and visionary; it's one of the essential albums of 2020, sayeth us here at BSM.

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TRACK: STEPHEN MALKMUS – SHADOWBANNED

The main man of Pavement, Stephen Malkmus, has just released his third single from his third solo album “Traditional Techniques” due out March 6th on Domino. Shadowbanned is an eastern flavoured…

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