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The heart of The Wolfmen’s second album is the end result of a number of fruitful sessions done back in 2010 with the Dandy Warhols’s Courtney Taylor-Taylor. There is nothing new here: it’s a rock standard rock and roll album. … Continue reading

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Ear Pwr – Ear Pwr

Sometimes your read something and let out a pfff. Paperwork, bills, shit prose, words too hard to enunciate. Like ‘Pwr’… pfff. Pwr lacks vowels. Try it. Pwr. It’s like a baby blowing meaningless sounds. Annoying. Not babies blowing words. That’s … Continue reading

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Seasick Steve – You Can’t Teach An Old Dog New Tricks

A downright scrappy looking fella of 70, Seasick Steve is the kind of cool I like, namely the no-thrills I-am-what-I-am, and if that’s cool, then cool it is. He’s got an insouciant aesthetic that is dirt-hip, a fascinating life behind … Continue reading

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Badly Drawn Boy – It’s What I’m Thinking: Part 1 – Photographing Snowflakes

Since writing the soundtrack to Caroline Aherne’s film The Fattest Man In Britain last year, our favourite tea cosy, beard wearing Mercury Prize-winning singer/songwriter has been experiencing a period of abundant creativity that has resulted in a new collection of … Continue reading

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Prince Rama – Shadow Temple

Prince Rama, a three-piece psychedelic new-age outfit, are a spectacularly and unashamedly neo-hippy band who make music that can only be described as both a homage to and remix of ritualistic communal chants, evocative of soothing and enchanting mantras commonly … Continue reading

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Uffie – Sex, Dreams and Denim Jeans

If on one glorious summer’s day a somewhat fairly musical child had chanced upon a recording studio with her miniature coterie of pals, all with a pinch of harmony in their genes, and decided to mix up a mix-tape then … Continue reading

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Position Normal – Position Normal

Think of the crackling distortion you get with old analogue radios as they tune in and out from one station to the other sounding like a damn awful crooked DJ who can’t mix for shit. Well that’s Position Normal for … Continue reading

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Fire – You Liked Me Five Minutes Ago

Calling themselves Fire, this Swedish jazz trio are a new project. Already well known for their work in their respective bands, Mats Gustafsson, Fender Rhodes, and Johan Berthling, have all come together to see what kind of magic they can … Continue reading

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Cosmo Jarvis – Sonofabitch

He’s quite the precocious teenager is Cosmo Jarvis. There’s the music – lots of it. Keeps banging them out day and night, and as an example, as we begin discussing the release of his first album – two parts, two … Continue reading

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Efterklang & the Danish National Chamber Orchestra – Performing Parades

An orchestral version of any musical composition is always a detour into more heightened territory. As big and loud and as slight and quiet as an album can be, with an orchestra to boot, the majors and minors become sharply … Continue reading

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