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  • BRIAN WILSON’S DING DANG IS COMING

    Look, we don’t quite know what’s happening but we’ll share the news all the same. On Brian Wilson’s Instagram page, it basically says that coming this Friday, is ‘Ding Dang’. We had a little search on Google for ‘Brian Wilson Ding Dang’, and all it came up with was a link to his website which sadly

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  • ALLEGRA KREIGER’S COUNTRY INFUSED INDIE

    Allegra Krieger is new to us, so we won’t pretend we know loads about her and just crib notes from other websites like we do. All we know is that there’s a new single out called ‘Never Arriving’ and its a kind of country tinged indie rock that sounds pretty cool. There’s been releases before,

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  • POSTHUMOUS SOPHIE LP

    There’s going to be a final album from hyper-pop trailblazer SOPHIE, three years on from their untimely death. It’ll be an eponymous affair, and there’s a new song called ‘Reason Why’ which features Kim Petras and BC Kingdom. The album will be released on September 27th, and a statement from SOPHIE’s family reads: “When we,

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  • REVIEW / KEHLANI / CRASH

    There’s always a danger with Kehlani that her brand of R&B reads too much Tumblr. That’s not necessarily a bad thing, but her seam of through-thought can occasionally focus a little heavily on who she’s making eyes at, identity and poor decision making in love and lust. It’s a common complaint of R&B at large,

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  • NEW COCO & CLAIR CLAIR

    We love the Coco & Clair Clair LP (we reviewed it here) for its hyper It Girl meanness and weird party vibe. Well, great news is that they’re back with a new single called ‘Aggy’ and they’re being all aloof and constantly online, but this time, the trap-lite beats have been replaced with a soft

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  • PSYCHEDELIC PERU GREAT AVAILABLE ON REISSUE

    One of the finest albums ever recorded is available after years of being hidden away in the shape of the effortlessly wonderful eponymous album from Peru’s, We All Together. Originally released in 1972, featuring some beautiful Wings covers and a load of killer original material, the LP is the greatest Beatle-inspired cuts ever recorded, with

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  • SAD BANGER FROM DAVID MCALMONT

    Euphoric melancholy is one of the true pillars of pop, giving listeners the chance to dance the pain out of their feet and let all the air leave their body while they joyfully singalong with something that might be upsetting. ABBA were the masters of it, and pretty much the whole of soul music. It’s

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  • JAMIE XX AND ROBYN GO FRENCH DISCO

    The ’00s are pure back, so get out the Mcat and Breezers, because it’s time to ruin your fat laces in your trainers and wear too much eye-liner and dance to the new one where Jamie XX and Robyn have teamed up. And it’s a whole load of fun too, don’t you worry about that.

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  • HONEY GENTRY TAKES ON QOTSA

    Honey Gentry has featured on these pages before and we’re very into the baroque, creeped out pastoral Americana she’s producing. And so to her take on the Queens of the Stone Age song, ‘Go With The Flow’. Bands don’t normally veer too far from the source material (which is a shame), but on this, the

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  • EXPANDED SELECTED AMBIENT WORKS II

    Aphex Twin and Warp Records were teasing stuff, and eagle-eyed fans spotted pretty quickly that it was something to do with ‘Selected Ambient Works Vol II’, and as it’s the 30th anniversary imminent, it was obvious there was a new version of it coming out. That’s still good news though, for electronic music heads! This

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  • SMOKE FAIRIES: NEW MUSIC, NEW SHOWS

    Smoke Fairies have been great for ages now, mixing road-movie twang with pastoral folk – and they’re back, which is great news for everyone concerned, and there’ll be a new LP called ‘Carried In Sound’ in November. There’s going to be gigs too, to accompany an album that’s promised to be a bit darker than previous…

  • MAREN MORRIS QUITS COUNTRY (OR BUTT ROCK)

    Post 9/11, country music has gone into something of a freefall, which is why people love The Chick so fucking much. Of course, it’s not a completely dead scene, but there’s something incredibly ugly about the flag-shagging, say it to my face, MAGA-courting stuff that Nashville has been churning out. Some of the bigger names…

  • FROM SUPER FURRY TO DAS KOOLIES

    Have you heard the acid latest from Das Koolies? If you didn’t know, the Super Furries minus Gruff are making some ace music under this new guise and it’s more synth forward and of course, it’s super fun Welsh psychedelic business as usual! The new track is called ‘Katal’ and comes with Gabe Gurnsey remixes,…

  • AMERICAN GOTHIC: WEYES BLOOD RETURNS

    Weyes Blood is great and, long shot prediction – it’s only a matter of time before some hip director casts her in an indie film, right? Anyway, she’s returned with a new video for the magic ‘Twin Flame’ which you’ll know from her last album, which is brilliant. It’s another ’70s horror affair and it’s…

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