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Track: Polychrome – Final Kiss

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Track: Night Flowers – Cruel Wind

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Live Review: Tess Parks + Anton Newcombe @ Oslo, London 18.07.15

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The enigmatic HighSchool – London-based but originally from Melbourne – are about to release their EP ‘Accelerator’ next Friday, April 19 via [PIAS] Australia, and to further entice us have unveiled the single ‘She Took You To Narnia’. Antarctic chills pervade this gothic epistle, delivered on an electronic thrum and with the insouciance we have …

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Simple Minds brings new energy to the 02 arena with a hits laden nostalgic tour date. Back in 2020, the band was 10 days into a world tour when the rest of the tour dates were cancelled because of Covid, and now the band is back in full force. Frontman Jim Kerr grew up in …

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The Itch is a project directed by Georgia Hardy and Simon Tyrie and their debut single ‘Ursula’ is an exciting bubbly electronic anthem with deep enigmatic vocals that capture the zeitgeist of uncertainty and anxiety. Sounding like something that has Depeche Mode, Visage and The Beloved in its genes with a cinematic glow, there is …

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Anticipation was high and queuing was early by dedicated fans for the Roundhouse and its long history of hosting iconic music shows in Camden. Tonight sees Ian McCulloch and Will Sergeant perform a greatest hits tour, ’Songs To Learn and Sing 2024’, where the majority of the audience were in their teen years back in …

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Dean, Dean, DEAN or “DEANO” for some of the enthusiastic London fans chanting his name as he came up on stage to which Dean responded, “What’s up London!”. The gig was already on an upward trajectory before Dean started his set with 7 Minutes from his first album, A Place We Knew. Dean, backed by a band, …

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Any musician who asks the audience at a show to write down some words about how the tunes made them feel and then gathers up this feedback has some nerve but that’s exactly what Inês Loubet did last year. The Portuguese, London-based singer-songwriter makes Tropicalia toned music of openness and honesty, that aims to reach …

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By Henry Groves Although there are 2 months until the release of their 4th studio album ‘Frog in Boiling Water’, the shoegaze icons were back in the UK, showing off their new music. Returning to the Forum in Kentish Town, 3 years after their last show at the same venue, celebrating the release of their …

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Straight out of South East London, multi-instrumentalist, producer and songwriter Alex Parry is LXP, and he has just released his debut EP ‘Power Ballads Vol. 1’ – an immersive collection of soul-infused electronica that somehow distills bands as diverse as Radiohead, Nine Inch Nails and Prince into an intoxicating mix. Opening track ‘On Repeat’ mixes pop …

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For many the jazz piano trio is an edifice that shouldn’t be tampered with, the classic enactment of pure jazz, a rhythm section suddenly given license to express itself but with a heritage that binds them together. So any messing with the tradition needs to be done well, with a purpose and conviction. Plucking at …

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It’s St David’s Day and Sam Willmett, Tilly Harris and Dan Matthew have escaped over the border and made it to the Village Underground. Following the release of their latest album Rare Birds: Hour Of Song, the Caldicot band bring their distinctive brand of garage rock and ornithological oddness to Shoreditch.  There are more daft …

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