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Track: Charlie Clark continues his world domination of jangly indie pop with the glittering ‘Blink Of An Eye’, out through No Big Deal Music, plus news of new material from his band Astrid

Arun Kendall October 27, 2021

Charlie Clark has been lasciviously fluttering his eyelashes at us ahead of his debut album release with a stream of jangly anthemic indie pop gems over the last year (see my reviews for the magnificent tracks ‘Don’t Have A Cow‘, ‘Late Night Drinking‘, ‘No Big Deal‘ and ‘A Bridge To Your Idol‘). While the album …

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News: Lamb Of God postpone UK headline tour until late 2022

Craig Young October 27, 2021

LAMB OF GOD regret to confirm that due to restrictions in various territories, they have had to postpone their intended ‘State Of Unrest’ UK headline tour until late 2022. LAMB OF GOD‘s headline UK trek will now take place December 2022. Dates have been rescheduled as follows: Tue 13th Dec – LONDON O2 Academy Brixton Wed …

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Track: John Thayer explores percussive ambience and field recordings on the beautiful ‘Kites’

Chris Sawle October 27, 2021

NEW YORK percussionist, audio engineer and all-round musical polymath John Thayer, fresh from two collaborative, cassette-only albums last year – Untangling The Ghost, on which he sparred with reeds player Stank Zenkov, and Mountain Rumors, in tandem with Craig Schenker – is not about to depart this grinding year of our lord 2021 without dropping …

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PREMIERE: Field Guide announces full-album cover of Coldplay’s Parachutes, enlists Lizzy McAlpine for ‘Yellow’

Gareth O Malley October 26, 2021

We’ve got a lot of time for Field Guide. We’ve also got a lot of time for Lizzy McAlpine, so when we heard the former – AKA the Winnipeg-based Dylan McDonald – was covering Coldplay‘s seminal debut album Parachutes in full, we were intrigued. It strikes a sweet spot between faithful reproduction and giddy reinvention, …

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Track: Buckle before the onslaught of extreme new trio Corroded Spiral’s ‘Forgotten Ether’

Chris Sawle October 26, 2021

PHANTOM LIMB, the label headed by James Vella which has, in recent times, released dark and supremely thrilling, challenging works by the likes of Kevin Richard Martin and Richard Skelton, could do no other than welcome the incoming super-triumvirate of Corroded Spiral to its hearthside, upon hearing that trio’s plans to make music together; especially …

IDFA Review: Bitter Love

See: The acid prism of Plankton Wat’s ‘Modern Ruins’: a delicious psychedelic instrumental response to our fracturing world

Premiere: Ashlynn Malia’s head and heart are at war on new single ‘Temporary’

Track: NZCA Lines – Pure Luxury

Interview: John Walsh (Harryhausen: The Lost Movies)

LFF Review: Jailbreak