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Jon Hopkins shares intimate piano cover of Thom Yorke’s “Dawn Chorus”

Rob HDecember 10, 2020

While we wait for a follow-up to his 2018 album Singularity, Jon Hopkins has been sporadically sharing new remixes and longer experimental pieces like his 20-m...

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Second Look: These New Puritans – Hidden

Tim SentzDecember 3, 2020

For its 10-year anniversary, Domino Records is re-releasing the sophomore album from English post-punk revivalists These New Puritans, Hidden. Coming just two ...

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Album Review: Ela Minus – acts of rebellion

Chase McMullenOctober 23, 2020

Ela Minus is now. There’s simply no other way to put it. Given its confrontational title, her debut album acts of rebellion isn’t, generally speaking, as overt...

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Album Review: Hen Ogledd – Free Humans

Rob HakimianOctober 1, 2020

Hen Ogledd is the Celtic name from the Middle Ages for an area of Northern England and Southern Scotland, and, for many, just listening to a band with a name l...

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Hen Ogledd ponder space and time through the eyes of an ageing entertainer on “Crimson Star”

Kyle KohnerSeptember 2, 2020

With an imperfect, cracking falsetto that is somehow familial and reassuring, Richard Dawson sings of space travel and time—themes the band has frequented time and time again....

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Interview: Protomartyr

John WohlmacherAugust 28, 2020

Police violence, foreign diseases, faceless corporate illusionists, political unrest. Madness, narcissism, death! You’d be forgiven for thinking the themes...

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Album Review: Alex Izenberg – Caravan Château

Ray FinlaysonJuly 31, 2020

After the release of his 2016 debut album Harlequin, Alex Izenberg went through a tumultuous period in his life. Beset by a failed rel...

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Cosmic folkies Hen Ogledd announce new album with the percolating “Trouble”

Rob HJuly 29, 2020

Hen Ogledd – the British quartet featuring Dawn Bothwell, Rhodri Davies, Richard Dawson and Sally Pilkington – have announced the release of a new album called...

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Alex Kapranos and Clara Luciani team up for Americana-tinged cover of “Summer Wine”

Ray FinlaysonJuly 28, 2020

Franz Ferdinand lead singer Alex Kapranos and acclaimed French chanteuse Clara Luciani have come together to conjure up their own place to escape to, as they t...

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Album Review: Shirley Collins – Heart’s Ease

Emma BauchnerJuly 24, 2020

Shirley Collins is 85 years old. The fact that she is still recording is remarkable enough on its own, and even more so when taking into account that she took ...

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