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Achieving musical alchemy, Morning Teleportation successfully combine more genres than I can count, creating fabulous journeys of song. They have taken the rulebook of song writing and thrown it out the window. They’re doing things their way.

When I contacted Canopies about featuring them on this site I asked them for what they might consider some of their influences; they divided these into two groups: musical and non-musical. The former showed a musically well-versed and (culturally) diverse band with the likes of Brian Eno, the Davids (Bowie and Byrne), Yellow Magic Orchestra [...]

There’s a jangled brush in “The Dive,” the lead track on Los Angeles band Fool’s Gold’s sophomore release “Leave No Trace.” It’s a tightly confined cross-breed of Western African harmonies and contemporary pop aesthetics. That should sound familiar: it isn’t too far off the well-worn path already travelled by Talking Heads and, even more recently, [...]

It was almost exactly a year to the day when Arcade Fire started dropping some 12″ vinyl singles in record stores across the world, much to the surprise of everyone.  People were cropping up online posting pictures of this vinyl that wasn’t announced by the band, something that shoppers were finding randomly littered amongst other [...]

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