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A piece of vintage kit that’s somewhere between a proto sampler and mellotron? YES PLEASE! A superb lo-fi thing shown off by the YouTube channel called HAINBACH, you see a kinda synth that uses floppy records to loop from and has all manner of cool and cute rhythms, and some gorgeous ambient synth tones. It’s…
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We’re very happy that there’s a spate of soft-pop knocking around at the minute. Focusing on gentle catchiness and easy-on-the-ear stylings, one of the most pleasant songs we’ve heard in a while is from Nature TV. The track is called ‘Frida’ and it’s a cuddly, warm thing and is set to feature on a new…
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There’s no popstar on Earth more likeable than Selena Gomez. Have you seen ‘Only Murders In The Building’ yet? She’s wonderful in it. Camp cult classic? ‘Spring Breakers’, everyone. A celebrity makeup range that is actually good and people sincerely like it? You bet. Came out of relationships with other celebrities looking like an actual…
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The new album from the clearly brilliant Portable Radio – who released new single ‘I Feel Like A Dog’ last week – have announced that their new LP ‘Counting To Three’ is available for presale on Where It’s At Is Where You Are recordings. On lovely red vinyl for the LP enthusiasts and of course,…
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The good folks over at Light In The Attic have just announced a Nancy Sinatra rarities compilation that’s due out in October, which is great news for anyone with ears! It’s called ‘Keep Walkin’: Singles, Demos & Rarities 1965-1978′ and is more archival work following from the ‘Start Walkin” comp they put out a couple…
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Since Prince’s untimely passing, the infamous Paisley Park vaults have been prepped to treat us fans with new and unheard bits and thanks to a new super deluxe version of ‘Diamonds and Pearls’, we’re being gifted two things to listen to and honestly, it’s all very exciting and very nerdy. So what have we got?…
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We don’t know a huge amount about Föllakzoid so we looked them up. They’re Chilean, they’ve collabed with Atom™ and J Spaceman from Spiritualized, and most importantly, have a new and huge techno whumper out called ‘V-II’. Apparently, this is the first new music in quite a few years and there’ll be an album out…
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The Rolling Stones seem to be up to something. After the wild success of Paul McCartney’s viral campaign for McCartney III where he left clues all over the place about an imminent LP, it seems the Stones are at it now. An advert appeared in a local newspaper for a glass repair shop. The clues…
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We don’t recall having hear of Population II before, but it’s obvious that prog never went away when you listen to their new track ‘C.T.Q.S.’ That’s not a criticism by the way. Only the weak turn their nose up at prog, and the equally weak like prog but can’t joke about it by saying ‘proggy…
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One of the black clouds that has hung over the legacy of Talking Heads is the friction between band members. David Byrne devotees have glossed over his treatment of Tina Weymouth for years – notably ignoring his repeated auditioning of Weymouth. Of course, the rest of the band could be just as difficult, but the…
STOP HOARDING TUNES
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SUBSCRIPTION FATIGUE CONTINUES
It all felt somewhat inevitable that young people would look at the streaming model and wonder why they didn’t have anything to show for their money. Obviously, the convenience of having most of the world’s music in your pocket is a miracle of a thing, but when you look around your room or your house…
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THE WARRIORS AND LIN MANUEL
Look, the rap musical Hamilton was awful. You don’t need to point out how successful it has been, how Lin Manuel Miranda is probably a nice guy, or even how much you liked it – it stunk. One dimensional rapping over old-head beats performed by a cast portraying a bunch of racist white dudes who…
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TG.BLK KENYAN RAP R&B IS GREAT
We were reading about tg.blk over at another site and liked what we heard. Instead of hoarding this information to ourselves, we thought we would share it here, because that’s what good people do. Seriously – stop hoarding music to yourself – nobody wins when you do that. tg.blk have a new six track EP…
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DOECHII NEW ONE SLAPS
Doechii has called herself a number of things over the years – the one we like best is “the trap Grace Jones” – and if that’s piqued your interest, shall we get onto the lovely business of a new record to listen to? She’s got a new one out called ‘Nissan Altima’, which to the…
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