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With some musicians, you can just tell they’ve got good record collections. Some people just look like they like going into record shops. Toro Y Moi is definitely one such person, and handily enough, it translates into his music too, with a cool mix of West Coast grooviness, easy psych, and funk electronics. With that,…
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The reappraisal for Wings has been a welcome one, as Paul McCartney’s post-Beatle career finally got a fair shake of the stick after everyone released what a fun and inventive outfit Macca had assembled through the ’70s and ’80s. With that, there’s going to be a self-titled anthology collection which has been signed-off and overseen…
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It’s a shame that Miguel memed so hard when he leg-dropped that poor woman at a show, because when he puts his mind to it, he’s one of the most idiosyncratic R&B singers on the circuit. With that, he’s got plans to release his first new LP in the best part of a decade, which…
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Cult favourites, Ladytron, look like they’re coming back. We say that because – for us at least – this song just dropped out of the blue, which is great news for all uber-cool electropopists around the world, right? They are apparently working on a new LP, and information about that is thin on the ground,…
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Quite why Tchotchke aren’t fantastically well-known is beyond us. Sure, they’re not obsessively modern in their sound, but there’s other bands who look back to the ’60s and ’70s who have a platform that the greatest current girl group on the planet should also have. With each release, we’ve seen Anastasia Sanchez, Eva Chambers and…
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David Byrne is one of those artists that, to his legions of devotees, defies criticism. There’s a few artists like that, who when mentioned, people get that faraway look in their eyes and simply won’t hear anything said against them. It must be a nice place to be, if you’re David Byrne (although you worry…
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Apologies if you still think ‘hardcore’ means breakbeat electronic music – the punks have got a hold of it now. No matter though, because the hardcore scene is thriving at the minute with loads of cool groups doing the rounds. And so to Buffalo and a group called Spaced who are new to us, who…
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Andrew Weatherall’s passing left a hole in clubland that we’re still trying to fill. While there may not be another, we’ll always have the music. And now, Weatherall’s first official posthumous mix. This is apparently the only back-to-back set DJ Harvey ever agreed to, and we get the pair playing uplifting, cosmic chuggers for your…
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Fans of Bruce Springsteen have been having kittens about the news of an expanded ‘Nebraska’ and now the word is out about what that actually means, and we’ve got the full tracklisting and all that good stuff. This Autumn, there’ll be a five-disc box set with loads of stuff that no-one’s heard before and more.…
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When a singer who works in the lane of R&B and soul, and they use guitars, wonky production and skittish beats, it’s easy to be super lazy and liken them to Prince and Outkast. While Dijon doesn’t explicitly sound like either, we can’t help but get reminders of them when we listen to his music.…
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BEWITH TEST PRESSINGS
The marvellous Be With Records have a number of test pressings for sale, which will be a cool and fun thing to add to your record collection. They haven’t put a single dud out to date, so you know the music will be great too! They’re limited in number, so don’t mess around pondering it…
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HABIBI FUNK’S FIRST SIGNING: CHARIF MERGARBANE
Charif Megarbane is Habibi Funk’s first contemporary signing, which is a thrill! There’ll be a new LP (which sounds ace) called ‘Marzipan’ released on 11th August 2023. You’ll know Habibi Funk’s incredible output with an insanely high hit-rate of compilations of Middle Eastern and North African music – seriously, there’s no duffers in the catalogue,…
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WHEN DID DEVENDRA BANHART CHANGE?
This is totally on us really, but we assumed Devendra Banhart was still making acid-folk, but we’re basing that on information in our head that is well over a decade old. Anyway, if you’re not surprised, we were taken aback by his new single which is all synthy and fully produced (by Cate Le Bon,…
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ALLAH-LAS GO MILDLY OFF-PISTE
Do you like the Allah-Las? Great news for you is that they’ve announced a new album called ‘Zuma 85’ and there’s a tour afoot and two new songs for you to listen to. The first new song we’ll share is called ‘The Stuff’ which will be a familiar sound to fans, with twangy psych guitars…
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