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Saint Etienne have always been into interesting collaborations, from teaming up with Tim Burgess for a Christmas single, to Monkey Mafia remixes and more! With their latest release, they’re doing more of the same! They have a new LP called ‘International’ and from it, you can listen to a track called ‘Glad’, which features Tom…
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Everything we’ve heard from the imminent Yaya Bey album has been great, so this is a further call for you to be ready for the release of ‘Do It Afraid’, which is coming out June 20th. We think it’ll be one of the R&B albums of 2025. Don’t wait for someone else to get you…
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Pearl Charles is one of our favourite artists and we’ve featured her on this site before and countless playlists, from the burning-hot disco of ‘Only For Tonight’ to the recent Lauren Canyon gorgeousness meets Muscle Shoals soul of ‘Step Too Far’. A hugely talented song-writer, Charles will be playing some live shows in the UK…
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Alison Goldfrapp’s about to release her second solo LP, which is called ‘Flux’, and if you’re hoping that she’s rediscovered her love of kinky glam synthpop, then you are absolutely in luck. The new song is exactly that! Now, don’t get us wrong – she’s not just wheeling out the old sound for clout –…
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We have to admit that we didn’t listen to any Yeasayer, but they called it quits and co-honcho Anand Wilder decided to make music under his own name. On the strength of the new single, perhaps we ought to revisit his former group? After some solo releases, in 2025, we’re looking at ‘Appointment in Samarra’,…
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You don’t even have to start stories about the USA with “imagine a scenario, where…” because frankly, they’re already there. The country is broken, and a good chunk of Americans already know it. They’ve gone beyond farce. Look at the recent spat between Bruce Springsteen and Donald Trump and his MAGA supporters. Springsteen hit out…
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Jazz never died, but it did feel harder to find since major music publications effectively turned their back on it some time in the ’70s. Jazz is of course, in rude health and as disparate as it ever was. With that, we were super thrilled while listening to baritone sax’er Zoh Amba’s new one, which…
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Island Records is one of the most legendary record labels in the history of rock, pop, reggae and more. Especially iconic is the ‘Island pink’ years, where the records sported a gorgeous baby pink label and was home to some of the finest records ever cut on the lathe. With that, following first volume, there’s…
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It certainly seems there’s a quiet revival of boom bap rap in recent years, underlined obviously, by the all-conquering Doechii LP released last year. Of course, she’s not the only one putting a fresh twist on golden era hip hop, and now we look to the new one from prodigious talent Che Noir. Hailing from…
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We wrote a very glowing review of the wonderful album by Tortoise cohort Jeff Parker and his IVtet, being one of the best jazz LPs we’ve bought in years. In case you missed, Parker and his band did a blissfully wonderful and super invigorating set for the always great NPR Tiny Desk. Watch it here.
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KLINGKLANG TECHNO FROM ANNIE-CLAUDE DESCHÊNES
We’re ALWAYS up for music that klings and klangs, goes boink and rattles in an industrial way. There’s soul in those machines, y’know? And so, to Annie-Claude Deschênes’ new one which ticks all kinds of boxes. It’s techno, for sure, but it’s not the usual whoomph whoomph stuff (which we admittedly like) as it’s got…
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FRESH RAP FROM REDVEIL
People only tend to mention backpack hip hop as a derogatory thing, but surely in 2025, we’re beyond that? The hip hop for the club, there’s hip hop for the house etc, and we’re getting a fun backpackiness from the new one from rising talent, redveil. This new track is called ‘Square One’, and it’s…
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R&B BOP FROM YAYA BEY
Yaya Bey is referred to as Neo Soul, which effectively seems to be a catch-all phrase for any R&B singer that has a vaguely retro bent to their music. Whether it is true or not, Yaya Bey has some new tunes out and we really like ‘Dream Girl’. There’s another called ‘Wake Up B*tch’ too,…
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LIBDEMS VERSUS KIDS PLAYING MUSIC ON BUSES
The Liberal Democrats are, of a fashion, vying to be the sensible voice of the youth. However, we know by now that we shouldn’t ever give any political party a blanket pass for having the piss taken out of them. And so, to their apparent want to fine kids ‘up to’ £1,000 for listening to…
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