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fantasy black channel
11 votes
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by Mike Diver

They might borrow from forefathers to lay solid foundations, but Late Of The Pier prove that they’ve ability well beyond the sum of influential parts…


gonga transmigration
2 votes
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by Ed Graves

Band in question, Gonga, plays loud; you push your hair over your face and bounce it ‘til your neck’s sore. Done


one day as a lion
12 votes
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by Mike Diver

So not Audioslave, One Day As A Lion's debut sees Zack de la Rocha and Jon Theodore delivering lyrically zealous, bass-heavy hip-hop…


The Tupolev Ghost - The Alpha EP
9 votes
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by ben marwood

The first in a planned series of three EPs from noisy Cambridge quartet The Tupolev Ghost rattles around these speakers with ease…


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FLYING LOTUS LA EP 1x3
8 votes
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by Samuel Strang

A compost bin of blitzkrieg beats, starlet Flying Lotus offers up one satisfying mulch with small-dose album companion piece LA EP 1x3


truckers of husk small
13 votes
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by Kate Price

Truckers of Husk's debut release, the Physical Education EP, encased in a kaleidoscopic palette of cartoons, dance steps and polka dots, is a rather mixed affair…


Animal Collective Water Curses
31 votes
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by Samuel Strang

Difficult to pin down, ever glad to fly the nest, Water Curses gives few clues to where Animal Collective want to head next, but is all the better for providing a moment of retrospective restraint as we play catch-up…


GROWING LATERAL
15 votes
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by Charles Ubaghs

Time to surrender to the new noise, then? Probably, because with the sounds of Growing and their like-minded voodoo workout-rocking comrades-in-arms, it looks like these twisty drones are here to stay…


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Latest live reviews

- 26.07.08

pentangle
6 votes
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by Jane Oriel

A word of advice: surrounded by their progeny, do not miss Pentangle's headline appearance at next month's Green Man Festival. It may well be your final opportunity…


the national by Michael Kerr
8 votes
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by Francis Jones

I’m sorry if this sounds like the superlative haemorrhaging bluster of an over-stimulated music writer but The National are astoundingly good…


my morning jacket
7 votes
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by Jordan Dowling

Kentucky quintet My Morning Jacket really are in a class of their own, and even after line-up changes they remain a truly essential live act…


camera obscura
2 votes
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by Natalie Shaw

Following something of a Camera Obscura 'best of' set, this writer walks away with a romantic fuzz all around her, lasting for the next few days…


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