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The new Cate Le Bon track is out and it’s called ‘Is It Worth It (Happy Birthday)?’ and it’s a moody, psychedelic synth track and, predictably, it’s very good. The accompanying video is left-of-centre, and we spent a good chunk of it worrying about a fun little dog who gets tied to a bollard. We’re…
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Tyler dropped a new album (or is it a mixtape? That line is blurred these days). Whatever it is, it is a load of fun and almost made us think that he’s the natural heir to The Neptunes. He’s something of an auteur, and rap always needs those. One thing we learned is that we…
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The amount of praise we throw at Tchotchke must make some people wonder if we’re on the payroll or something, but rest assured, we’re just big fans. And luckily for us and everyone else, there’s yet more music out in the shape of the new song ‘Now I Love You’. This one is a drumless,…
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One of our favourite illustrators on the planet right now is the supremely talented and unique Carly Jean Andrews. Based out on the West Coast of the United States, she’s been winning hearts with her bold, brilliant art for a while now. Her work touches on a host of things, including complex, ’70s inspired typeface…
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Questioning the net value of new technologies is always a worthwhile endeavour, and of course, artificial intelligence is the latest hot topic on everyone’s lips because, on the surface, it’s a technological miracle – but it comes with concerns. The scraping of other people’s words, art, music and the rest, is definitely stealing rebadged as…
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Pastoral psych group Whitney have announced a new album, called ‘Small Talk’ and the good news is that there’s a new song to listen to which sounds comfortingly like a Whitney song should sound. The new album will be available on November 7th, and you know exactly where to go if you want to find…
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Massive Attack have been very vocal about the situation with Gaza – the group have refused to play in Israel since the late ’90s. With that in mind, they have announced an alliance comprised of musicians, hitting out against “intimidations from within” the music business. On social media, they shared a statement about an alliance of…
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One of the most wonderful things about The Charlatans is their ability to breathe and grow, when many of their peers plough a familiar trough, and rely largely on nostalgia. Not so this lot, who have gone through ’90s psychedelia and indie-dance, to sun-soaked Californian synthetics, to rootsy rock, to Balearic, to post punk, and…
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If you’ve been reading our words for a while, you’ll know how much we love the music of Dora Morelenbaum. Her ‘Pique’ album is one of our favourite records, and is a modern Brazilian classic. Read our review here. Well, Dora has a new video out for the swooning, groovy ‘Não Vou Te Esquecer’, and…
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The release of Justin Bieber’s ‘SWAG’ album was, for most, a surprise. Not least because of the absence of promotional materials released in the build-up to it, but in part, it was remarkable that he’d even been working on anything. For those not terminally swirling around Bieber’s plughole for every morsel of information, he’d only…
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SABBATH EARLY STUFF
In the build-up to the last ever Black Sabbath gig, we’re now being treated to an album of the group’s early recordings – back then, they were simply called “Earth”, which is quite hippie of them. Either way, this is fun stuff for us dorks, and this material will be the first time it has been…
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GROOVEJET VS POSH SPICE
If the ’90s had The Battle of Britpop with Blur’s ‘Country House’ going up against ‘Roll With It’ by Oasis, the 2000s equivalent was a race for number one which has been somewhat forgotten in the intervening years. It was the battle of Posh versus Posher. The house underdog versus the footballer’s wife. And what…
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NEW ANIMAL COLLECTIVE
Did you like Animal Collective? Did their brand of spiralling psychedelic indie rock do it for you? Good news then, because they’re back! This seems to be a one-off single, but there might be more stuff in store if you keep your ear to the ground. It’ll be released on a limited edition 45, and…
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MORE THAN A SURF BAND / THE BEACH BOYS
There’s been so many beautiful words written about the Beach Boys since the passing of Brian Wilson, that it feels partially redundant to add more here. However, for all the virtues of these tributes, there’s still a nagging sense of reducing the group to a ‘mere’ surf group, when clearly, they were so much more.…
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