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Maps and Atlases: Beware and Be Grateful – Review

FatCat Records

Beware and Be Grateful is the second full length offering from the Chicago quartet, Maps and Atlases. Following on from 2010′s Perch Patchwork, the new album sees the ... Read on

By: Adam Yare on 15/02/2012. Tags: beware and be grateful, fatcat records, Maps and Atlases
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We Have Band: Ternion – Review

Naive Records (2012)

We Have Band’s second release, Ternion, sends out yet another album into the crowded sea of electronic indie pop, the styles of Hot Chip, New Young Pony Club and ... Read on

By: Manchester Scenewipe on 06/02/2012. Tags: album, review, shaun holland, ternion, we have band
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Porcelain Raft: Strange Weekend – Review

Secretly Canadian

Indecision can be a bugger. One minute you’re strolling along, happy as Larry, not a care in the world; the next, you’re awash with choices and stuck to the ... Read on

By: Chris Long on 03/02/2012. Tags: porcelain raft, strange weekend
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Well Wisher: Summer Gangs – Review

Youth Camp Records

So, it’s February, the air is freezing, everyone is donning gloves, sweaters and there’s rumour and hearsay of snow afoot. In lieu of this meteorological phenomenon known to

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By: Luke Bather on 02/02/2012. Tags: luke bather, manchester, summer gangs, Well Wisher, youth camp records
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Halls: Fragile EP – Review

The Sounds Of Sweet Nothing

As we all have hopes and fears for the new year, as we’re all back to the grind, running around like headless chickens, London based band Halls come ... Read on

By: Camille Dionisi on 31/01/2012. Tags: camille dionisi, ep, fragile, halls
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Brown Brogues: ‘Anyone But You’ – Review

Italian Beach Babes Records

This is definitely still the same Brown Brogues we saw causing trouble in a Wigan labour club in last year’s video for ‘Treet U Beta’, but there’s ... Read on

By: Charlie Rawcliffe on 31/01/2012. Tags: anyone but you, Brown Brogues, italian beach babes, review, single
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The Louche FC + New Hips + Daniel Land

Band on the Wall, Manchester, 23 January 2012

 

Propped against the Band on the Wall balcony and surveying the growing crowd, I contemplate the aesthetic banality of narratives of redemption – with the honourable exception ... Read on

By: Atrocity Boy on 30/01/2012. Tags: atrocity boy, band on the wall, daniel land, manchester, new hips, the louche fc
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The Darcys: ‘AJA’ – Review

Arts & Crafts

 

They certainly have balls these Darcy’s. Struggling with the creation of their eponymous first album they decided to change tack completely, giving themselves a break by tackling Aja ... Read on

By: Jacob Morrison on 27/01/2012. Tags: aja, arts and crafts, deacon blue, peg, steely dan, the darcys
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First Aid Kit: The Lion’s Roar – Review

Wichita Records

PROLOGUE

MANCHESTER ROYAL INFIRMARY.

SEXUAL HEALTH CLINIC.

TUESDAY, JUNE 28th, 2005, 13:38.

 

A Muslim woman is threading a futuristic-looking Q-Tip on a reconnaissance mission into my urethra. ... Read on

By: Chester Whelks on 24/01/2012. Tags: chester whelks, emmy lou, first aid kit, the lion's roar, wichita recordings
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Borland – Romantic Animals

Gulf Records

Giving that Borland shares it’s name with a software company you might expect an album of machine like precision in which it is hard to find much human ... Read on

By: Shaun Holland on 17/01/2012. Tags: borland, gulf records