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If you want to pigeonhole North London duo Blue Violet (aka Sam & Sarah Gotley), you’re going to need several...
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You know more songs by The Verve than you think you do. Sure, everybody knows the Stones pilfering classic ‘Bittersweet...
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“I saw a man jump off a bridge / He grabbed the rail and flipped over the edge, uh-huh /...
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The Gentle Spring are the new band formed by Michael Hiscock, founder member of 1990s indie-pop favourites The Field Mice,...
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The current mindset of a musician can be read into the way tracks are spelt on an album. On predecessor...
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While FKA Twigs has always found herself on the outskirts of the modern-day electronic music landscape, this newest, shimmering effort...
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It’s ridiculous, I know, but even now, 11 albums into his music career, I still can’t shake the image of...
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Sometimes “cinematic” can be a lazy catchall to describe music, but for Laura Cahen’s De l’Autre Côté, it’s both accurate...
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I remember hearing this album for the first time vividly. As a huge Pixies fan, I was excited when the...
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On ‘It Wasn’t Me’ from her ninth solo album, Showtunes from the Shadows, Helen McCookerybook sings, “I’m a chameleon /...
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Brighton noiseniks DITZ seem to have been around for ages, so it’s hard to believe that Never Exhale is only...
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Any self-respecting shoegazer might be glad their genre of music was still being talked about 25 years into the 21st...
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2025 has got a lot to live up to. Last year was such a strong year for albums, for both...
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Wardruna’s Birna is an album about bears. But not just bears in the flesh-and-blood sense, lumbering through Nordic forests. These are bears...
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One of my favourite things each year is hearing debut albums. There is just something so exciting about hearing what...
