The ‘dark side’ of the Calder valley allows no light during winter, and its draining effects on the human soul are more than just myth. There’s a bleakness that is all-encompassing, settling over the moors and deep valley sides, while residents hunker down and await spring. But drawing inspiration from the stark beauty of this…
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The last album Ignorance in 2021 convinced us that Tamara Lindeman and her band are producing some of the most interesting and original music at the moment. We reviewed Atlantic, a single from the album, thus: “It is a startling, unusual and brooding work, elegantly arranged with a lush expansiveness yet suffused with tension. A…
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Snowapple have released a video of the song I Lie All the Time, taken from their latest album A Moonless Night. The album and film project were released earlier this year, a haunting and inventive tale by the female-led international organisation, based in Amsterdam, Paris and Mexico, where they host art residencies, festivals and events. …
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This has been an exceptional year for new releases of all genres with perhaps a leaning towards shoegaze/dream-pop on this list. Bill Ryder-Jones got the year off to a great start with the inspired Iechyd Da while Father John Misty’s Mahashmashana slipped in as a late November closer and is perhaps my album of the year.…
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High energy post-punk band Choses Sauvages are from Montréal, Canada. The six-piece outfit have built quite a fearsome reputation for their live performances – powerful, explosive and dance-heavy. With two albums under their belt, Chose Sauvages have just unveiled a new single called En Joue. En Joue exhibits all the hallmarks of the band’s dance-punk…
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Today, Jon Hopkins shares a brand-new track called Forever Held on Domino Records. A full orchestral piece written by Hopkins with string arrangements by Ólafur Arnalds, it’s an emotive and deeply peaceful piece of cinematic music which touches on “themes of our Earth and its context within space”. In common with many of Hopkins’ compositions, Forever Held calms the…
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Some bands are meant to be seen live and W H Lung is right up there. The energy that bounces from stage to crowd and back again is electric, especially with dynamic and expressive front man Jo Evans prowling the stage. For their third album, Every Inch of Earth Pulsates, it’s that live experience that…
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The aim of Bristol-based, New York-bred Angélica Allen is to craft dreamy yet danceable Avant-Pop with her project MyMidnightHeart – and with new work called “Anew” she most definitely succeeds, combining ethereal harmonies, hypnotic drums, and surreal soundscapes. Her work is multi-layered, sending listeners into a calming and dreamy space. Angélica retreated from performing to focus…
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Red Sky July release the second single, Stones and Brambles, from their upcoming, fourth album. A gentle love song over a finger-picking guitar arpeggio, Stones and Brambles is deeply personal, written by band member Shelly Poole in the aftermath of guitarist – and her husband – Ally McErlaine’s brain haemorrhage. We’re loving this beautiful track…
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The women-led collective Snowapple has been on creative overdrive this year, now releasing an album and film project called A Moonless Night. International in members and in outlook, Snowapple has been together since 2013, with a prolific output that has seen them involved with a multitude of projects: movement, theatre, mime, puppetry, music, singing, poetry,…
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