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You haven’t heard from me about the band in Heaven for nigh-on nine months now, and you might not have even heard about them at all, so for those of you who fall int that category here’s what you need to know. A duo from Florida, they use their craft to bundle up snappy and [...]

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This time around Ganglians have taken the down-tempo and sullen approach for our new music pleasure. They haven’t exactly gone all Portishead on our asses, but compared to the last single they put out “Jungle”, this new track might as well be a Portishead cover, just minus the use of theramins and in its place [...]

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Buy the album from Amazon – MP3 | CD Radical Dads don’t have the greatest band name, which sounds like something those midlife crisis dads who still have instruments lying around their house that they barely play would call themselves when set up in a garage. Lindsay Baker, Chris Diken, and Clap Your Hands Say [...]

On Channel Four in the U.K. for the last couple of months or so there’s been a show (Live From Abbey Road) where some of the lesser-known artists in the British music scene have set up shop at the famous Abbey Road Studios in London to record and rework some of their own numbers. Previous [...]

At about this time last year James Blake really began a steep rise to prominence, and about five months ago that status was met with the release of his debut self-titled album. Since that release he’s dropped a couple of singles from the album, namely “The Wilhelm Scream” and “Lindisfarne”, but only a couple of [...]

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Buy the album from Amazon – Vinyl | MP3 | CD Let’s give credit where credit is due. With some rare exceptions – and some great reissue reviews – Pitchfork has strayed away from some of the wonderfully insightful commentary that made the site as influential as it is today, but they get things right [...]

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Having released a widely popular (in our rather introverted circle known in the lower realms of music blogging and journalism as the “indie blogosphere”) EP on vinyl at the tail end of 2010 Unknown Mortal Orchestra then signed to Fat Possum and expanded on the EP with an entire album. Part of the success of [...]