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The wonderful thing about ageing is the acknowledgment of the relentless passing of time. Your knees start hurting. Your sleep is disturbed because you need to get up in the middle of the night to pee. You can end up in a full body brace because your sock was folded slightly oddly in your shoe,…
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Cami Layé Okún is one of the finest and funnest DJs around right now. Playing music from Cuba (and elsewhere, but you need a hook, right?) she’s all about that rhythm and sunshine melody! This is not so much a piece where we need to write a great deal – basically, go follow her on…
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Hip hop has found itself in a funny place lately. Everyone’s broke. There’s been a pandemic. Energy bills are out of control. Prices are going up. It’s difficult to listen to someone talk about how many millions they’ve got hanging off their wrist. It’s tough to stomach listening to someone complain about how lonely they…
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Have you heard of Michael Rault? Well, there’s a good chance he released the finest LP of 2022, if you’re into perfect pop that’s cut with all good things like West Coast 70s music, Paul McCartney’s Wings, ELO (aka Beatles: The Musical), Harry Nilsson etc. If you need more modern recommendations, then file Michael Rault…
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What’s the deal here? A music blog, being launched in a time when blogging is absolutely dead, especially trying to cover music? What’s the point in that? Well, call it a labour of love. Call it foolhardiness. Call it what you want, but the chances of this making any money is basically nil, and thankfully,…
STOP HOARDING TUNES
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BIG FREEDIA X SOPHIE
Big Freedia has announced a new EP and the whole thing has been produced by the late SOPHIE, and as you can imagine, it absolutely slaps! It’ll get a release this summer when we’re all in the party mode. There’s three tracks to chew on, and we’ll be able to listen to the whole thing…
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REST EASY, SONNY ROLLINS
There was almost something instinctual about the way Sonny Rollins played his music. In Jazz, there’s a lot of academics and blowhards – but Rollins was a different prospect, and an absolute titan of the scene to boot. One of the Hall of Famers for sure, a generational talent, he has died at the mighty…
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REVIEW / BOARDS OF CANADA / INFERNO
Mass surveillance, new age spiritualism grifters, populist politics, a thoroughly unsensible media landscape, quack medicine pushed by sexists, conspiracy, Q Anon, artificial intelligence, the threat of nuclear war, drone strikes, fash technology, bots, robots chasing wild boars through urban areas – we live in weird, unsettling times. So it feels right that Boards of Canada…
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DISCO METAL ARAB STRAP
Arab Strap – the thinking man’s Sleaford Mods* – have announced a brand new album which will be released in September and goes by the name of ‘Half-Told Tales’. And there’s a new single to listen to right now, which is “disco-metal”, right? The lead track is called ‘You You You’ and is something of…
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