Music Albums & Singles

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  Austerity

  Anarcho Punk Dance Party (Every Man His Own Football & Quiet Backwater) - If people are still bemoaning the lack of political fight-back in music then point them in the direct...

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  James McArthur & the Head Gardeners

  Intergalactic Sailor (Moorland Records) - Ooh! This is truly gorgeous stuff from the Welsh-born folkie James McArthur and his band. Thematically he’s taken inspiration from ro...

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  Jaakko Eino Kalevi

  Dissolution (Weird World) - I’m never not in the mood for a bit of Finnish psych-pop and, on that front, Jaako Eino Kalevi never disappoints. And if last year’s very fine ‘Out...

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  Vetiver

  Up On High (Loose) - This is the seventh studio album from Vetiver (his friends call him Andy Cabic), a San Francisco type given to penning warm and neo-psychy tunes. For his ...

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  Great Grandpa

  Four Of Arrows (Big Scary Monsters) - This Seattle band turned a few heads with the release of their debut album ‘Plastic Cough’, which was released in 2017 and showed they ha...

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  Kitt Philippa

  Human (Paragon Records) - The winner of the 2018 Northern Irish Music Prize is now hitting us up with a debut album of extraordinary beauty and grace. They (it’s one-person, t...

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  Joe Bonamassa

  Live at Sydney Opera House (Provogue) - Joe Bonamassa is arguably the world’s biggest blues guitarist and any chance to see him live should never be passed up. If you can’t gr...

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  TCHOTCHKE

  Life Gets In The Way (self release) - If you want to get on board with a local band on the up and up then get on board with TCHOTCHKE (say it with me: Chotch-kee). In fact the...

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  Subshine

  Easy Window (Apollon) - Subshine is the brainchild of Ole Gunnar Gundersen, one of the most lauded songwriters in Scandinavia who had a global cult following when he fronted u...

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  Sea Change

  Inside (self release) - There’s not much evidence of global warming on the latest release from this Norwegian artist, which is positively icy. It features the stark, but very ...

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  Otherwise

  Defy (Mascot Records) - This bunch of Las Vegas hard-rockers were brought up on a diet of Stone Temple Pilots, Third Eye Blind and Faith No More and recognise the value of rif...

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  Friendship

  Dreamin’ (Orindal Records) - Philly outfit Friendship are a collective centred around Dan Wriggins’s narratives. They’ve been something of a cult band but they deserve a wider...

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  Jon Boden & The Remnant

  KingsRose In June (Hudson Records) - Folk fans will know all about Jon Boden as he was the lead singer (and one of the principal arrangers) with the multi-award winning Bellow...

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