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Bittersweet folk – we check out Matt Kivel’s new album Janus set for release this February

Bittersweet folk – we check out Matt Kivel’s new album Janus set for release this February

Born out of a session of some good ol’ fashioned internet stalking (more on this later), Matt Kivel’s third full-length album ‘Janus’ sways between the soft and delicate folky storytelling of Fleet Foxes and the breezy summer guitar pop of Real Estate. Where Kivel differs from these two bands is in the darker musical moments on ‘Janus’.Tracks such as ‘Violets’ and ‘The Shining Path’ build up into…

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Chickenosaurus New Year's day - let Rebecka Bergh be your still small voice of calm this 2016

Chickenosaurus New Year’s day – let Rebecka Bergh be your still small voice of calm this 2016

from facebook Rebecka Bergh is a solo folk artist from Scotland. She makes minimalistic heart fuelled tunes that have proved their longevity. We featured her a long time back, and her small voice of calm endures. Here are a duo of freshly released visuals to accompany her sound Not all music need to make a big noise to make a big…

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Worth the hype - Hinds anarchic debut LP 'Leave Me Alone' out this New Year

Worth the hype – Hinds anarchic debut LP ‘Leave Me Alone’ out this New Year

  Madrid all girl four piece Hinds have already broken records. This summer they became the first Spanish band to play a main-stage at Glastonbury, and are the pick of the bunch of acts currently blossoming from Espagne.  A few months back the girls released a ‘Very Best of Hinds so far’ compilation EP – an audacious move for a band that hasn’t even yet released an album, but hell, Hinds can do…

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Watford trio the Staves add 5 evocative bonus tracks to Autumn album 'If I Was'

Watford trio the Staves add 5 evocative bonus tracks to Autumn album ‘If I Was’

To celebrate the announcement of their recent UK tour in the autumn, The Staves have added a handful of tracks to gorgeous album If I Was. Produced by the heart-achingly talented Justin Vernon of Bon Iver, If I Was demonstrates the maturing and continually elegant sound created by The Staves. With a band name derived from ethereal surname Staveley-Taylor, sisters Emily, Jessica and Camilla…

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Max Richter's ground breaking 8 hour sleep-a-long opus offers a sonic resting space for the New Year

Max Richter’s ground breaking 8 hour sleep-a-long opus offers a sonic resting space for the New Year

Richter is counting his chickens… For someone whose self professed favourite activity is sleeping, it is hardly surprising that Max Richter went the length of working with neuroscientist David Eagleman  to create an album that is ‘a person lullaby for a frenetic world’. The 8 hour composition was crafted for playing during sleep, taking natural sleep cycles into consideration, intending to ease…

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Prince still sexing it up with soul after 30 years - HitnRun Phase Two out now

Prince still sexing it up with soul after 30 years – HitnRun Phase Two out now

Before September’s HITnRUN Phase One has had the chance to settle controversy among his fan base, Prince now drops surprise release HITnRUN Phase Two only three months later. Although Phase One flirts dangerously with the generic, Phase Two reinstates what we know and love about an artist that exudes complete weirdness, brilliance and soul. The entirely analogue production adds warm tones and…

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It's Christmas!!

It’s Christmas!!

Happy Christmas Happy Diwali Happy Hannukah Festive Happies Christmassy Cheers Seasonal Felicitations Winter Greetings December Pleasantaries Merry New Year and finally BAWK  

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Pinkshinyultrablast - unfiltered and unafraid on new single ‘The Cherry Pit’ + new album 'Grandfeathered' set for release February 2016

Pinkshinyultrablast – unfiltered and unafraid on new single ‘The Cherry Pit’ + new album ‘Grandfeathered’ set for release February 2016

The shoegazing Saint Petersburg five-piece released debut album ‘Everything Else Matters’ at the start of this year. But before you can even blink they are on to their second full LP ‘Grandfeathered’ which is out in only two months’ time. With this announcement comes new single ‘The Cherry Pit’. This track has all the ferocity and fun-gazing (shoegazing with a lighter side) of their debut but…

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Revel in peri-seasonal down-time with RYD’s electro debut single ‘Scintillate’ Ambient, reverby, down tempo electronics to soothe your turkey bloat, here's the debut single from RYD. …

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Not Christmassy - still awesome - Maasai's captivating electro album 'Feeling Blue, Seeing Orange'

Not Christmassy – still awesome – Maasai’s captivating electro album ‘Feeling Blue, Seeing Orange’

  Maasai’s self written and produced debut album Feeling Blue, Seeing Orange is a collision between fiction and reality. Full to the brim with drama and flair, all ten tracks are strong enough to stand alone, yet retain a coherence within the album. Dominique Teymouri and Zackarias Ekekind’s formation of this Swedish ‘cinematic pop’ duo has meant the marriage between quietly excellent percussions…

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Christmas? Mathematical! Delta Sleep's delightfully daft cover of Chris Rea's Driving Home for Christmas

Christmas? Mathematical! Delta Sleep’s delightfully daft cover of Chris Rea’s Driving Home for Christmas

  Christmas Cheer at Small Pond Studios. It’s that time of year when the nights draw in and the glittering lights are as expected as the sound of sleigh bells and the glasses of mulled wine. Cue also the endless dirge of Christmas songs, the same every year, with the latest edition of an irrelevant X-Factor submission, and the DJ’s notable exclusion of RATM’s Killing in the Name Of... Well cry no…

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Cage The Elephant takes us on a sonic retrospective - album 'Tell Me I'm Pretty' out today + UK Tour Dates

Cage The Elephant takes us on a sonic retrospective – album ‘Tell Me I’m Pretty’ out today + UK Tour Dates

‘you’re pretty’ Cage The Elephant, a four-piece rock band from Kentucky, are probably the most difficult band in the mainstream music scene to second guess. Since 2008, they’ve released three albums, all varying wildly in style, channelling everything from blues to grunge. Album number four, ‘Tell Me I’m Pretty‘, follows this trajectory of ceaseless change, this time venturing in to pop…

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Yndi Halda are back with new post rock epic 'Golden Threads From The Sun'

Yndi Halda are back with new post rock epic ‘Golden Threads From The Sun’

Yndi Halda are an English Post-Rock band hailing from Canterbury who don’t follow the paint-by-numbers approach to the genre. Instead, they offer a more diverse dynamic, reminiscent of more experimental Post-Rock bands such as *shels. This month they released four-minutes of track Golden Threads From The Sun, from their upcoming album Under Summer, their first release in 8 years. It’s only an…

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Wath the lyric video for electro-engaging single Don't Pull Away, J Viewz ft Milosh

Wath the lyric video for electro-engaging single Don’t Pull Away, J Viewz ft Milosh

  When the madness of the festive season is gone and the winter nights find you tucked up with a roaring fire and dimmed lights, let the beauty of Don’t Pull Away fill your ears and calm your soul. A mirage of instrumental perfection combined with digital manipulation and vocals with a silky purity from Milosh, this track achieves what many easy listening tracks fail to do, it engages your…

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Multi-layered electro from Norway - Hanne Kolstø - LP Whilst we Still Have Light

Multi-layered electro from Norway – Hanne Kolstø – LP Whilst we Still Have Light

  If Hanne Kolstø looks a little sleepy on the cover of While We Still Have Light, it’s probably because this is her fifth album in as many years. But she doesn’t sound tired, which is damn impressive, since the new record definitely puts her through her paces. Tied together by some stunning vocal performances (fans of Cat Power will probably get along with this) it’s a diverse set of songs,…

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'Let them In' - Turner Prize winner Martin Creed's musical statement on the refugee crisis

‘Let them In’ – Turner Prize winner Martin Creed’s musical statement on the refugee crisis

  Turner award winning Wakefield artist Martin Creed, known for such seminal works as Work No. 88 (a balled up sheet of A4), Work No. 200: Half the air in a given space (1998, a room half filled with balloons), and Turner Prize winning 2001 Work No. 227: The lights going on and off (a room with…well…), is now sharing his thoughts on the refugee crisis currently splitting opinions all over the…

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Book - Art Brut's frontman Eddie Argos memoir 'I Formed a Band' suggests a cooler way to play with the vacuum cleaner

Book – Art Brut’s frontman Eddie Argos memoir ‘I Formed a Band’ suggests a cooler way to play with the vacuum cleaner

If you’re even only vaguely aware of Art Brut, it’s probably as a result of the hype surrounding their 2004 debut single: Formed a Band. It’s a catchy arty pop song which goes, for the most part: ‘We formed a band! We formed a band! Look at us, we formed a band!’ Luckily, lead singer Eddie Argos’s book is slightly more loquacious than that, and, like the song, it captures the wonder of actually…

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