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TRACK: Arca’s ‘Mequetrefe’ is shattered-mirror futurism

XL RECORDINGS’ avant-pop futurist Arca has premiered a new track, “Mequetrefe,” ahead of forthcoming album Kick i, which XL is releasing next Friday, June 26th (with a vinyl press available…

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TRACK: Long Faces bring the Canterbury vibe on ‘Sail Away’

SOMETIMES the musical DNA of a city seeps into your bones. At first listen the fourth release from London-Leeds-based alt-rock quintet The Long Faces, “Sail Away”, would seem to give…

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SEE: the fine English psych whimsy of Jeremy Tuplin’s ‘Space Folk’

“I BELIEVE in magic / space magic … put on your unicorn jacket, covered in bat ships.”. So exhorts Somerset’s Jeremy Tuplin in the opening lines of his current single,…

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SEE: Ane Brun releases ‘Honey’ ahead of autumn album, UK tour

NORWEGIAN songstress Ane Brun has released the fifth in a series of monthly tracks ahead of an as-yet-untitled eighth studio set. The album is due to be in the racks…

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TRACK: Red River Dialect frontman shares ‘Ballad of Ross Wyld’

DAVID MORRIS, proud Falmothian and singer with Red River Dialect – the six-piece who’ve brought us some of the most vital of British folk-rock over the past decade – has…

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SEE: Standard Fare’s Emma Kupa returns with folksy gem ‘Nothing At All’

EMMA KUPA has been something of British indiepop’s best-kept secret this past decade. Starting out in North Derbyshire trio Standard Fare, who released two albums of cracking, bouncy guitar pop,…

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SEE: The Blinders up the darkness on ‘Mule Track’

MANCHESTER-based, Doncaster-bred goth-punk outfit The Blinders are back in the fray, with their second album in the can – and their latest single “Mule Track” is a dark thrust into…

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SEE: M83’s Jordan Lawlor steps out on his own with J. Laser EP

FORMERLY a member of French shoegazers-turned synth-wielding dreampop angels M83, Jordan Lawlor has stepped outside the fold with a bright new EP, J Laser, due for release on June 26th.…

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LISTEN: L.A.B.’s NZ chart-busting summer deep house groove

iT DOESN’T look like we’re going to have a summer to remember, at least for the right reasons; but we could all use a little musical balm right now. Stepping…

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Track: Swansea’s Mojo Jnr make hazy bedroom pop with Miles Away

SWANSEA’S Josh David-Read might just be Cymru music scene’s latest little treasure. The nation that brought us Super Furry Animals, Gorky’s Zygotic Mynci and Cate Le Bon will have…

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