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SEE: Jeremy Tuplin – ‘Back From the Dead’: Ziggyesque glam-psych call to live here, now

IT COMES grooving in on an early glam kinda riff, that hook-laden chug you got in Bowie’s “Suffragette City”, bluesy and low-slung, propelling along on a fuzz guitar. Jeremy himself…

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SEE: Osees – ‘Dreary Threat’; album, tour dates

JOHN DWYER’S Osees – yep, that’s another letter gone – are the hardest working, most adrenaline-fuelled garage-punk guitar toters in the business. If you’e ever been blessed enough to see…

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Track: The Clockworks – Can I Speak to a Manager?

In three and a half blistering minutes, The Clockworks prove once again that they are one of the most exciting bands around at the moment. ‘Can I Speak to a…

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SEE: Sneaks – ‘Mars In Virgo’: lofi astrological rave rhyming

LET there be no doubt: Sneaks, known to friends and family as Eva Moolchan, is COOL. Last year’s Highway Hypnosis album for Merge wended through seductive, deconstructed electro; leftfield, whispered…

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TRACK: Space Captain – ‘Birthday Cards’: graceful psychedelic soul on Tru Thoughts

LIKE that friend you have that you’ve grown with and can always WhatsApp in the middle of the night, Brighton’s TruThoughts is someone you can rely on; that you can…

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TRACK: Bill Callahan – ‘Let’s Move to the Country’: Bill out-smogs himself

BESIDES being a songwriter we should grasp close to our chests, we’ve seen time and time again this summer that Bill Callahan has an incredible capacity to surprise. First he…

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TRACK: Hen Ogledd – ‘Trouble’: further glorious wonkpop from Richard Dawson’s quartet

WHAT started as a side-project for Newcastle’s premiere exponent of passionate out- and wyrd-folk, Richard Dawson, to find an outlet for other musical stylings, has come to take on a…

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TRACK: Black Marble – ‘Johnny and Mary’: Robert Palmer gets the lofi synth look

EVERYONE loves a cover version, there can be no argument there; what do they do with the song? Do they tread carefully and deferentially; do they take a sledgehammer to…

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TRACK: Andy Shauf – ‘Judy’: low-key baroque folk brilliance

HE’S one of those gorgeous, nuanced, baroque-pop songwriters we could all do with spending a lot more time with, is Andy Shauf. Like fellow countryman Patrick Watson, he has this…

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TRACK: Monzanto Sound – ’23’: off-kilter dub-punk grooves

THERE’S a real skeletal dub-funk groove, with this offbeat sway and disjuncture; on the one hand, it’s deep and smokin’, on the other, wiry and angular: very The Pop Group.…

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