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Album Review: Le Ren – Morning & Melancholia EP

Ana LeorneJuly 31, 2020

Some say honest beauty comes from pain. Although that is obviously not always true, some of the most stunning works of art ever created have been birthed ...

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Bonjour Motherfuckers #3 – BPM edition

Ana LeorneJuly 3, 2020

It's starting to feel more and more like a faux départ, isn't it? Somehow we had been mutely promised this Summer would have a much-needed silver lining to it,...

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Album Review: Bananagun – The True Story of Bananagun

Ana LeorneJune 30, 2020

I wasn't even thirty seconds into album highlight "People Talk Too Much" when I fell in love with Bananagun. As soon as the single found its way into my i...

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Album Review: Neil Young – Homegrown

Ana LeorneJune 18, 2020

1975 was a weird year for music. With the 70s at full steam, a cultural shift seemed to be in order as roots rock started losing ground, AOR rose in tame enthu...

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Bonjour Motherfuckers #2 – BPM edition

Ana LeorneJune 5, 2020

Coming back to semi-unconfined life after so much time in lockdown with limited human contact can be as tricky as learning to walk again after healing from a b...

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Album Review: Melenas – Dias Raros

Ana LeorneMay 12, 2020

Literally translating as "strange days", Melenas' new album Dias Raros gains an almost prophetic allure when confronted with the current situation, especially ...

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Bonjour Motherfuckers #1 – BPM edition

Ana LeorneMay 1, 2020

Yes, you read right: this is your beloved column coming back to life, fittingly in a time when we all seem to be lacking good news on a daily basis. Since live...

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We had change of the moon: Revisiting Sibylle Baier’s Colour Green

Ana LeorneApril 27, 2020

Colour Green, the 2006 release of German songwriter Sibylle Baier's 1970s recordings, is more than simply an intimate snapshot of a nearly-forgotten artist ...

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Album Review: The Dream Syndicate – The Universe Inside

Ana LeorneApril 15, 2020

In his drug-fueled memoirs Flash ou le Grand Voyage, French writer Charles Duchaussois describes all intoxicating substances as belonging to one of two categor...

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Album Review: Lewsberg – In This House

Ana LeorneMarch 30, 2020

Seems fitting that Lewsberg (named after Dutch author and poet Robert Loesberg) should return in such a strange spring, treating us to a collection of songs th...

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