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Album Review : Slowdive ‘Slowdive’

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Album Review: Mark McGuire – Beyond Belief

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Album Review: A Place To Bury Strangers: Transfixiation

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Phoebe Bridgers has revealed the Follow up to her 2017 album, Punisher, will be released on June 19th via Dead Oceans and ahead of that she’s released a second single from it, ‘Kyoto’. Written on her first trip to Japan in February 2019, it skips along with Bridgers soft vocal peppered over lovely, uplifting melodies …

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Pinned is the fifth studio offering from Brooklyn’s A Place To Bury Strangers who in their ten year history have garnered a reputation for releasing unique records and putting on mesmerising live performances. They have had to make some big decisions in recent years, they were in search of a new drummer who arrived in …

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Lump is a new collaborative project from Brit award-winning singer-songwriter Laura Marling and sometime Tunng and Throws man Mike Lindsay. They’ve recorded a self-titled album that drops on 1st June via Dead Oceans, and from it they’re sharing a new video for album opener Curse of the Contemporary. Starting out with this woozy electro-beat and …

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Okay, I must admit that prior to Slowdive’s brand new self-titled album I hadn’t really delved into their music. Yes, I know it’s a travesty and I’m making amends right now by falling completely head over heals for them. I didn’t partake in the shoegaze punch in my younger years(with the exception of Lush’ Spooky …

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Mark McGuire’s Beyond Belief is a behemoth of an album. It’s an epic double LP, nearly 80 minutes of expansive tracks that feel like the soundtrack to some existential, futuristic film. Though it’s largely an electronic instrumental album, Beyond Belief doesn’t fall into the usual electronic music category. While most synth-filled albums of late tend to keep things dark …

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Transfixiation is the best album A Place To Bury Strangers has made. That’s not to say anything that came before it wasn’t worthy of hurting our ears. But this time around Oliver Ackermann has given the already harsh, dark sound he creates something it really needed: a groove. It’s not all about the numbing squall of …

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