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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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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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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 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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It really is a sorry state of affairs in the music industry outside of the few who can fill huge outdoor arenas and stadiums – and even some of those are struggling. Companies and venues are taking a cut of bands selling merch, there’s no money in streaming, you have to pivot to being a…
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Chappell Roan’s rise to fame has been sudden and very interesting. Often, meteoric rises are met with suspicion and chatter about being an industry plant and all that – but for our money, no such thing could be levelled at Roan given her very obvious and striking talent. Add to this, her whole personality is…
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The good folks at Light in the Attic have a brilliant compilation out called ‘Even the Forest Hums: Ukrainian Sonic Archives 1971-1996‘ which looks at the Ukraine music scene from the aforementioned dates – obviously, during this time, the region was under strict Soviet control, so there’s a lot to dig into spiritually too. The…
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We all love Prince, so any trace of the Purple One’s music is always a treat since he departed. Usually, Prince influence means clean twangy guitars and a falsetto over some digital funk, and it’s not always something that ends in great results because… well… not everyone is able to be Prince, right? No such…
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Look, you probably already know that Larry Levan is DJing royalty, a pioneer, a legend and all that good stuff. If you don’t, then you’re in for a treat when you Google his name and look into his history! With that, here’s a killer mix from the Paradise Garage in 1985, which Defected Records shared…
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You don’t need an essay on this one from us. Lisa is a Thai pop-rapper who you might know from Blackpink. Rosalia is the best thing to come out of Spain since tiki-taka. The pair have teamed up on a lovely slice of futuristic pop, all clattering and hooky, and while we’ll need to sit…
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SO, KACEY MUSGRAVES THEN
Never mind Tay Tay announcing a new LP – we can ignored that as everyone has already talked it to death already. We’re more interested in the imminent music from the mighty Kacey Musgraves. She’s been making a slow-melting psychedelic country music since her utterly fabulous ‘Golden Hour’ album (yes, that wasn’t her debut, but…
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GET FONTEYN NOW OR YOU’LL REGRET IT
Look, we were all set to write and long love letter to Fonteyn’s utterly perfect LP ‘Trip The Light Fantastic’, even though it’s not a new release, because it really is one of the most wonderful records you’re likely to hear. The reason we were hesitating is purely selfish, and that was because we didn’t…
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639 YEAR PERFORMANCE CHANGES CHORD
As well you know – John Cage is a little bugger. One of his most famous compositions is a silent piece, but another that we’re mildly obsessed by is called ‘As Slow As Possible’ – and that’s because it’s a piece that, on completion, it will have been performed for 639 years. Yesterday, the piece…
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REVIEW / DINA ÖGON / ORION
We’ve talked about our love for Dina Ögon at length before, and now there’s a new LP to talk about, and that’s the salve we needed to kick off 2024’s first new release review. Again, we find the band in groovy, sophisticated form, melting psychedelic soul, Balearic, dream pop, and something so uniquely their own,…
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