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  • MODULAR SYNTH GOODNESS FROM EMILY A SPRAGUE

    We don’t know the work of Emily Sprague, of Florist, but apparently she’s taken a left turn. Whatever is happening, we like it! She’s said that her new single ‘Double Moon’ “marks the beginning exploration of a previously uncharted map for me – the realms that combine my modular synthesizer work and my singing/songwriting.” It’s…

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  • BOARDS OF CANADA / INFERNO IS GO

    Well, it is finally official! There’s a new Boards of Canada album coming out with a release date, new artwork, song titles and EVERYTHING. Yeah, that’s right. The album is called ‘Inferno’, and is out May 29th, and it’s entirely new music after weeks of mystery and speculation, all kicked off with some VHS cassettes…

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  • MORE KACEY MUSGRAVES MUSIC

    Kacey Musgraves is readying her sixth LP – ‘Middle of Nowehere’ – after releasing the very tongue-in-cheek ‘Dry Spell’ which had one of the best ‘Yup!’ deliveries we’ve heard anywhere, she’s now given us another track to whet the whistle. The new album is not far away, landing on May 1st, and the artwork and…

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  • SPOTIFY AWARDED COPYRIGHT MONEY FROM NO-ONE

    Have you heard of Anna’s Archive? Well, it was a project that mirrored libraries from streaming services. You might say they were like a library, trying to preserve all the recorded music, via Bit Torrents. That’s what they said, and it all wasn’t readily searchable from your average internet user either. Of course, there’s no…

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  • THE GNOMES ’60s FUZZ

    If you like your Lo-Fi rock ‘n’ roll to have flashes of early Kinks and Garage Punk, then you probably need to get on board with Australian group, The Gnomes, who like fuzzy guitars mixed with actual songwriting rather than simple yelling. Now that we’re averse to yelling, mind you. The band will release a…

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  • WHAT’S THE THING WITH GEESE?

    Geese shot to fame seemingly overnight, which can only mean one thing – we must don our tinfoil hats and assume something is up. Or at least, that’s what the vibe is currently amongst the chattering indie classes, who think this must be some ‘industry plant’ thing going on, or in one instance, that the…

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  • MADONNA IS BACK ON THE DANCEFLOOR

    Madonna promised that she’d be leading us back to the club (where you can dance – for inspiration, c’mon!) when she said a sequel to the mighty Confessions of a Dancefloor was coming our way. Well, now it is totally official, with ‘Confessions II’ getting released on July 3rd. And there’s a teaser to whet…

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  • OFFICAL / BOARDS OF CANADA ARE BACK

    Well, we told you that Boards of Canada had started dropping clues, and now it seems official that they are indeed back, having uploaded a video to their official channels (as have Warp Records) simply called ‘Tape 5’. The clip is similar to the VHS cassettes that had been sent to a select few, except…

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  • FUNKY PSYCH FROM SPACEMOTH

    We’re new to Spacemoth and on the strength of the new track, we’ve been missing out! Spacemoth is actually Maryam Qudus who is out on the West Coast of the US, and is a producer as well as a fine musician. There’s a new album coming out called ‘Inward Eye’ which you can get stuck into…

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  • DARK TECH FROM JASMÍNE

    Jasmín is new to us, but we’re always in the market for some heavy techno and dancefloor action, and her new track ‘It’s Girls Night’ caught our attention, being all deep and sophisticated as it is. She’s released this with Fabric Originals and the release – with other tracks we think – will get a…

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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…

  • 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,…

  • WE DON’T WANT TO WRITE ABOUT THE GRAMMIES

    All the news today is about The Grammies and that’s super boring. Sure, there’s a new song from SZA and Killer Mike got arrested, but that’s not really what we want to write about today. Seeing as there’s no other news, we’re just going to share this video of loads of people having a massive…

  • IS PATREON THE FUTURE OF MUSIC?

    As the future of being a working musician looks increasingly bleak, collectively we need to work out a way of getting people paid. If we don’t, that means music will only be viable for people who have parents with blue links in their Wikipedia pages and the like. So, with micropayments and subscriptions becoming more…

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