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We miss the days of frivolous, immersive websites with easter eggs and games and interactive things on them. With that, we remembered the interactive game that featured on the old Boards of Canada site, and thankfully, there’s a document of it! Uploaded to YouTube and featuring the music of BoC – therefore very pleasant indeed…
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Keigo Oyamada is better known as Cornelius, and he’s one of the most inventive musicians on the planet, and has been for ages. The last thing we wrote about was an absolute gem, and you can hear it here. He’s back with a new tune, to mark the signing to label Eat Your Own Ears…
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Nia Archives looks like someone who is set to take over the world, having all the ingredients for a full-on, proper star. Like, she’s grabbed drum ‘n’ bass by the lapels and shook it up the most since the day of, say, Roni Size and Goldie – ready to be a face for the genre. Well,…
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It always feels like it’s Autumn in Noah Kahan’s heart, which is no bad thing if you’re making the kind of music that sensitive souls feel nourished and supported by. And now, after becoming a gigantic star, he’s arrived at an album where he’s surely been asking some questions of himself. See, Kahan is a…
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Charli XCX is making a rock album. She’s been pretty funny about her post-Brat moves, saying that she’s okay with it being a flop etc. In a Vogue interview – always good for a quote – she declared that “the dance floor is dead”, which of course it isn’t, but toward guitars she goes and…
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Don’t be fooled by the headline – we’re not saying anyone is a saddo for liking Alex G – he makes perfectly good music for perfectly nice people. However, we have noticed that a number of his fans seem to be a little depressed and have made him their spokesperson, of a fashion. I wonder…
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If you’re into synthesiser music, someone coming at it with a fresh angle is always welcome – enter Manuela. A new album is due in June, and the first track reminds us of Karen Dalton, if she was produced by Eno – how about that?! The new record is called ‘Ultraviolet’ and follows some hot…
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Have you felt it in the air? R&B summer is upon us and Momo Boyd’s ‘Oops’ single is yet another signpost for it! There’s been a host of great R&B releases and mercifully, there’s real diversity after the genre suffered from being mildly stuck in the mud for a while. We’ll eventually do a whole…
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Sophia Stel says she’s a pop star, but don’t expect the glittery sheen of Sabrina Carpenter here. This pop filled with doom. She’s just released a new single called ‘Bitches Talk Shit’ which kinda underlines that point. Sophia has been getting a lot of people’s knickers in a twist and is setting off on a UK…
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Rare DM has a new record out soon which goes by the name of ‘Attention’, and you can have a preview of what it might sound like right now. The appetiser is in the shape of new track ‘Honey’, which is moody, but simultaneously, upbeat. She says of it: “I wrote it during the uncertain…
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PHOENIX + PUSHA T / WHAT?
We love Phoenix. They’re ace. They’re also unpredictable. Case in point – there’s a new tune out which features Chad Hugo from The Neptunes and Pusha T. And a singer called Benee too. It’s a remix, of course, and it’s a rejig of ‘All Eyes On Me’. The band sez: “A huge thank you to…
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DJ HARRISON COVERS FAGEN’S ‘IGY’
Multi-instrumentalist and multi-genreist DJ Harrison has covered Steely Dan solo-cut ‘IGY’, which of course, is a banger by Donald Fagen. It’s a soulful take on the classic, and has previously opened for the great man at some shows. He’s added his own twist so puritans, don’t get weird about it. Good covers need to add…
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JENN CHAMPION WITH ACE SYNTHPOP
This week, we’re going to be getting a new LP from Jenn Champion and judging by the single we’ve just listened to, it’s going to be brilliant. And the title is a winner too: ‘GOOD NEWS, BAD NEWS (WE’RE ALL GONNA DIE)’. The album it is taken from is called ‘The Last Night of Sadness’,…
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DUOLINGO DOES MUSIC
DuoLingo has been a runaway success when it comes to teaching people new languages, turning tedious learning into something approaching a fun, social game. Wouldn’t it be great if they branched out and did it with other things we’d like to learn? Well, answering our prayers, DuoLingo has started teaching music theory basics, so you…
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