Magnetic Skies second album Fragments out now

Syn­th­pop col­lec­tive Mag­net­ic Skies return with their sec­ond album, Frag­ments, coin­cid­ing with their first UK head­line tour. Their 2023 debut, Empire Falling, estab­lished the band as con­fi­dent pur­vey­ors of cin­e­mat­ic syn­th­pop, mov­ing flu­id­ly between eupho­ria and melan­choly. On Frag­ments, they build on that foun­da­tion with a sharp­er focus and a broad­er sound, push­ing their 80s-inspired drama…

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Ship Says Om releases EP “Dream Journal”

Berke­­ley-based artist Jen­ny Gille­spie Mason, who records under the name Ship Says Om, invites lis­ten­ers into her serene and intro­spec­tive world with her new release, Dream Jour­nal. The six-track col­lec­tion takes the lis­ten­er through ambi­ent folk, shaman­ic rhythms, and Celtic-tinged melodies. Each piece drifts through an evolv­ing land­scape of tone and emo­tion. The instru­men­ta­tion create…

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The Weather Station release two new songs; the tour continues

An artist who always sparks our inter­est is Cana­di­an singer song­writer Tama­ra Lin­de­man, cre­ator of The Weath­er Sta­tion. She pens thought­ful and unusu­al com­po­si­tions, often with warm jazz-infused instru­men­ta­tion, and her last two albums, Igno­rance and Human­hood, are stag­ger­ing­ly beau­ti­ful. So we are delight­ed to have two new works to lis­ten to, songs that she…

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Magnetic Skies ‘Everything’s Alright’ final single before Fragments album release

The long-await­­ed album by dark­wave syn­th­pop supre­mos Mag­net­ic Skies called Frag­ments will be out on 7th Novem­ber. Till then we’ve been lis­ten­ing to sin­gles from the upcom­ing release and the final drop, Every­thing’s Alright is out today. Front man Simon Kent has this to say about the track: “This is the most hope­ful, pos­i­tive track on the album,…

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Sparks first EP ‘Madder’ out now

There seems to be no stop­ping Sparks who have just added to their pro­lif­ic out­put with a new EP called MADDER!, a exten­sion of the recent MAD! album. The Mael broth­ers have described the birth of this new work: “Not want­i­ng the Mad!ness to end and buoyed by the phe­nom­e­nal reac­tion to MAD!, we made…

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The Besnard Lakes Are the Ghost Nation album review

The Besnard Lakes’ pre­vi­ous album, The Besnard Lakes Are the Last of the Great Thun­der­storm Warn­ings, was cre­at­ed after the death of the father of Jace Lasek in 2019. The Besnard Lakes’ front man cre­at­ed songs that helped him work through his emo­tions as he explored the dark­ness of death, while search­ing for light and…

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“Frames” – the soulful single from Jaime Rosso’s EP “Away”

Mar­­gate-based elec­tron­ic artist and pro­duc­er, Jaime Rosso has announced his debut four-track EP Away – due for release on Novem­ber 7th via Domi­no.  He has just released the sec­ond num­ber Frames as a sin­gle. The track radi­ates a breezy, coastal ener­gy, no doubt influ­enced by his Mar­gate back­ground. It’s a soul­ful piece, dri­ven by slinky bass notes that send a…

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Peter Perrett shares new David Holmes remix and tours UK

The track in ques­tion is WMG/WMD – a remix by David Holmes, with that riff giv­en a scuzzy qual­i­ty, com­bin­ing with Peter Per­ret­t’s dis­tinc­tive care­worn and vul­ner­a­ble vocals. At the end of last year, Peter Per­rett released The Cleans­ing – his third album for Domi­no which fea­tured John­ny Marr, Fontaines D.C.’s Car­los O’Connell and Tom Coll, Bob­by Gille­spie, Dream Wife gui­tarist Alice Go…

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Review: Scaler album ‘Endlessly’

Scaler (for­mer­ly Scalp­ing) have part­ly built their rep­u­ta­tion on intense and immer­sive per­for­mances and while noth­ing could have pre­pared me for that first expe­ri­ence of see­ing them live, I’ve con­tin­ued to be blown away by their raw vis­cer­al ener­gy. They man­age to trans­fer that pow­er to their record­ed out­put too. Debut album Void was released in…

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