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More new music from Portable Radio! The second single from the imminent ‘Counting To Three’ LP and this one is a Zombies-esque romp that should tickle your pickle no end. The video is a smart animation by the tremendous Nirshath Madhusanka who you can find more about here.
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Joni Mitchell’s archive series has been really great and it should be of no surprise that there’s been some real gems that have previously been unheard by us plebs in the vaults. And so, with her Archives Volume 3 which is out October 6th, we’re getting treated to a track called ‘Like Veils Said Lorraine’…
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My Analog Journal has done it again, this time with a wonderful mix of Haitian psychedelic music, played by Belgian-born DJ Tracksuit (great DJ monicker that) He says: “I fell in love with Haitian music about a year ago after Cedric Woo’s Dance for Haiti mix series inspired me. I went down a Discogs rabbit…
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Ezra Collective are the first jazz act to win the Mercury Prize (although Speech Debelle feels at least jazz adjacent tbh) and you might have had your interest piqued with this news. Their album ‘Where I’m Meant To Be’ bagged the gong and it got a bunch of approving nods from various heads – and…
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There’s a strength to the music of Saint Saviour that’s always been impossible to ignore and lyrically, it’s all there laid out if you’re looking in the right places. Well, she’s back with more wonderful music after a handful of really wonderful LPs, and the new track ‘Better Than’ kicks off with “I told my…
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We were idly reading this piece about the Fatback Band and, jovially we’ll note, they were talking about how underrated they are. They’re 100% correct and they are without doubt one of the most influential bands to ever do it. In the piece, they mentioned a track that we didn’t recognise and if you’re not…
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We, along with everyone else, was right about the Hackney Diamonds thing, in that it was a new LP from the Rolling Stones. That’s the name of the imminent album and there’s a new song we can listen to called ‘Angry’. The song itself? Well, it sounds like The Stones which is exactly what you’re…
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Sometimes you need a track that just punches you square in the face and runs away cackling like they’ve done you a favour. Handily enough, the new one from Hit Bargain does exactly that. It’s chaotic and loud and dafter than a bag of lit fireworks. The band are made of members of Pains of…
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Gary Wright has sadly left the building. Even if you think you don’t know him, you probably do, and if not, you ought to get to know his music now. Wright had been unwell for a while, but let us focus on what he did and a life well lived. He started off his creative…
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We’ve been treated to a preview of new music from the brilliant Cheapskate – someone we first became aware of via the magical ‘Un Film Imaginaire’ cassette, which saw the multi-instrumentalist wandering between spy soundtracks, scratchy jazz and glorious, home-hewn pop. It was fun, it was fragile, it was nimble, it bore repeated listens, and…
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MDOU MOCTAR: ELECTRIC TUAREG
When Tuareg musicians pick up electric guitars, something psychedelic and spectacular happens almost every time. This track we’re sharing is brand new and called ‘Funeral For Justice’ and comes from the brilliant Mdou Moctar. It’s firebrand stuff and taking names and numbers and kicking all kinds of ass. We love it. The track is from…
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DREAMY, NU AGE JAPANESE PSYCH MIX FROM MARI*
My Analog Journal is, as anyone with even the vaguest interest in record collecting, DJing and the culture, one of the finest channels around. Deep cuts, obscure stuff, amazing collectors playing inventive and super interesting sets. The latest that caught our ear is Mari*, who hails from Japan but now based in London, and produces…
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ST VINCENT IS A BROKEN MAN
You know the score with St Vincent by now – good clothes, idiosyncratic pop, angular guitar and that clever-clever stuff. Her last outing was some cocaine lonely at the top enormo-star character… we think… with ‘Daddy’s Home’. Now, it’s all, according to her, “urgent and psychotic” on the imminent LP ‘All Born Screaming’. There’s quite…
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ALENA SPANGER RHYMES WITH BANGER [MAYBE]
Is it Spange? Or Spang? We don’t know, but the new one from Alena Spanger is really cool and it’s called ‘All That I Wanted’ and you should give it a listen. There’s a good chance you’ve not heard of them if you’re outside of NYC, but there’s a debut album due and on the…
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