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The mighty Pet Shop Boys are all set to share some previously unreleased songs in April. It’s all part of a new thing they’re doing and that new thing is a book called ‘Annually’. The 2023 edition of the yearly release (hence the name) will be a 64-page hardback affair, containing journals, photos from their…
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You can try and be as clever as you want, deep diving on this, that, and the other… but sometimes it’s just worth reminding yourself how great a band were. From Detroit, America’s greatest music city, Inner City was the brainchild of the great Kevin Saunderson and Paris Grey. Saunderson of course, was one of…
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If you’re a fan of vinyl and Daniel Johnston – good news! His debut ‘Songs of Pain’ is going to appear on record for the first time and you can get your hands on it some time in March. There’s probably some pre-orders knocking around if you have a look. Originally, ‘Songs of Pain’ was…
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Light In The Attic have been doing a wonderful job giving Lee Hazelwood’s back catalogue a spring clean, and they’re at it again, this time with ‘Nancy & Lee Again’, now available to pre-order on vinyl and, even better, 8-track! It’ll be streaming too, if you’re not in the habit of buying stuff. It’ll be…
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Some people are already all over this, some are not – but Eddie Chacon was in Charles & Eddie (‘Would I Lie To You?’ ohyeah!) and he’s been releasing really, really brilliant music lately. Like, utterly fantastic AOR/Future Soul/NuYacht brilliance on Stones Throw Records. No lie. With the 2020 album ‘Pleasure, Joy And Happiness’, he…
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We’re like everyone when we say we’re interested in things that are genuinely horrible. Not ironically; no humour — just a fascination in how things can go so badly wrong… or weird. If you’re not into upsetting things, this is your warning to stop reading right now. Of course, a lot of people enjoy reading…
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Sopwith Camel ‘Miraculous Hump Returns From The Moon’ ltd coloured vinyl LP reissue pre-order (release date 10th February) Have you heard ‘Fazon’ by Sopwith Camel? It’s utterly fantastic and one of those dreamy, cosmic chuggers that’ll make you want to slowly get ripped to the tits, gently. The good news, if you want to own…
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Want a bit of avant garde absurdism in your pop? You’re in luck. Charlotte Adigéry & Bolis Pupul are a Belgian duo who make the kind of electro-pop we think Grace Jones would like. That Tina Weymouth would love! With elastic-band synth bass, dancefloor ready drum machines, and off-kilter and super sharp lyrics, there’s everything…
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Look, we know it stinks when you liken one band to another, but if music listeners were all ‘I’ll listen to everything thrown at me and I’ll give it all an equal chance because I’M REALLY COOL!’ (which no-one is), we wouldn’t have to do it. Fact is, like a lot of good songs, you…
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Hey Aphex Twin fans! Fancy a bit of drill ‘n’ bass to liven up your various cavities? Well, good news, he’ll be headlining Field Day this summer. You can come to daddy in Victoria Park on August 19th and you’re in for a treat for sure. Never a dull moment with Aphex Twin unless you’ve…
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NICOLE MIGLIS ELECTRONIC ORCHESTRAL WONDER
We don’t know much about Nicole Miglis, but we’ve heard some hype. Now, hype can be a terrible, terrible thing – but it also sometimes just means that people are excited about something new, so lets lean into the latter and go with the good flow shall we? Miglis has a new LP tomorrow which…
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NUBYA GARCIA’S NEO JAZZ GOODNESS
If you’ve been missing that low-lit, seductive Neo Soul of the late ’90s/early ’00s, then London jazzer Nubya Garcia has just the thing for you with her new single, ‘Set It Free’. After bagging a Mercury music prize nom and a huge tour, she’s coming back with a new album by the name of ‘Odyssey’…
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REVIEW / NICK WATERS / WITHER
There’s few joys in life that are nicer than tripping over an album completely by chance and finding that it’s an absolute romp of toytown psychedelic and glorious shed pop! While acid-songwriters in the pomp of the ’60s had huge studios, endless tape and orchestras, since then, things have retreated and paired down. The ambition…
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BOB DYLAN, RONALD REAGAN BIOPIC
Bob Dylan is contributing a song to a new biopic about the life of Ronald Reagan and we absolutely want to mention the massive rumour relating to the phrase ‘THROAT GOAT‘. If you don’t know the rumour, then you’re really missing out. However, we’ve got more factual based things to talk about. The new movie…
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