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Maps and Atlases: Beware and Be Grateful – Review
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
We Have Band: Ternion – Review
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
Porcelain Raft: Strange Weekend – Review
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
Well Wisher: Summer Gangs – Review
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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Halls: Fragile EP – Review
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
Brown Brogues: ‘Anyone But You’ – Review
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
The Louche FC + New Hips + Daniel Land
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
The Darcys: ‘AJA’ – Review
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
First Aid Kit: The Lion’s Roar – Review
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
Borland – Romantic Animals
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
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