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She seemed to live a hundred lives at the same time, and honestly, it seems bizarre that us mere mortals were looking at the same sky she was. Marianne Faithfull – a complete one-off – has left us and we’re all the poorer for it. And where to start? For over six decades, she’s been…
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When dance music works best, it’s straddles the line between sleazy, wrecking your shoes, drunk cigs and gritty, and impossibly glamorous and shimmering with fantasy. It worked for disco, it worked for the pop-house boom in the early ’90s, and it’s worked for just about anything to shake your backside with on the weekend. Dance…
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They dress in what looks like a load of moss and bracken, and if we remember rightly, they’ve got a synth made out of a log. They also make furious garage-psych, and are a group not to be trifled with. They have a new song out to herald a new LP called ‘Hard Times Furious…
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We haven’t really listened to Viagra Boys, but they’re very popular amongx the punx. They’ve got their new LP out in April, but in the meantime, have a new single out called ‘Man of Meat’. The album will be launched on their own label and will be called ‘Viagr Aboys’, and this new track sounds…
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The way Chance the Rapper fell off is a sad thing, but he’s been steadily putting new bits out in a bid to reignite the fervour that accompanied ‘Acid Rap’ and ‘Colouring Book’. Whether or not it was unfair, it is always worth cupping your ear when Chance puts something out, so do exactly that…
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Self Esteem is back with a new single called ‘Focus is Power’, and it’s all very uplifting and self-helpy, and honestly, with the level of devoted fanbase she’s got, they’ll probably lap this up. She’s good people, so that’s nice. There’s a new LP due called ‘A Complicated Woman’ with very striking artwork (which you…
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The Pill don’t like mullets. They’re done. They’re cooked. Their new single is called ‘Money Mullet’ and is about this fact. They’re another chaotic punkish group from the Isle of Wight (there’s something afoot down there, clearly) and it reminds us of the kind of indie-punk that was a mainstay in the ’90s, causing chaos in…
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Marlon Williams is one our favourites, writing music that’s veered from dreamy, ’50 country to hip post-pop – he’s a real treasure that’s for sure, and has the voice of an angel. He’s announced a new LP, sung entirely in the Māori language, and the first track from it is a real beaut. The album…
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Mick Jenkins releases are always worth your time, and the good news is that there’s a new track out and it’ll prove exactly that! Chicago’s own has a new freestyle for you to get your chops around called ‘Wars & Rumors’, which could mean that we see a new LP later in the year. Maybe.…
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It’s pretty unassuming to have two plastic lawn chairs, sat empty for the cover of your newest LP, but Bad Bunny’s ‘DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS’ isn’t just any album – he has made a career best, just as latin, reggaeton flavoured global pop felt like it may have been on the cusp of waning. The…
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VIC MENSA VS THUNDERCAT
Hey! Vic Mensa has teamed up with Thundercat and singer Maeta on a new track called ‘Strawberry Louis Vuitton’, which is good news isn’t it? We like them. Not so much Louis Vuitton, but that’s not through any moral stance – rather – we haven’t ever been able to afford it so it doesn’t mean…
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PRIVATE PRESS JAPANESE PSYCH NEW RELEASE
There’s a gorgeous new record you need by Tokyo’s Arimoto and it’s called ‘Acacia y Suministro de Agua’. Part folk, part psych, part post-rock, all ace, you’ll like this no doubt. You can just listen to it below if you won’t take our word for it. All recorded in glorious analogue, this is a private…
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PRE ORDER JAMES ACASTER’S ‘TEMPS’ ON VINYL
You know James Acaster from the TV and clips of him rinsing Ricky Gervais don’t you? A ball of nervous energy in a tracksuit top, famed for his Bake Off failures and his wild ride on Taskmaster. He’s a funny, smart fella. He’s also in a 40 piece collective called Temps, which sees Acaster in…
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WE TOLD YOU THERE’D BE NEW POLACHEK
There’s nothing a music writer likes saying more than ‘toldyouso‘. Be it spotting a band before they get big and you told everyone they’d like them, and they did, or better yet, saying there’s something off about an artist for them to reveal themselves to be dicks. This is all to lead up to this…
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