Category: Alt-J
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New Music Friday: Bloc Party and Blossoms release new music
Spring sun is shining, festival season is upon us and excitement grows as both Bloc Party and Blossoms release new music, within a frantic splurge of juicy music goodness for New Music Friday. While aforementioned Bloc Party’s Alpha Games and Blossoms’ Ribbon Around The Bomb anticipate a festivity of alternative-indie goodness with summer cider in…
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alt-J: “The Dream” – Album Review
Ever since Alt-J laid claim to their Mercury Prize for their debut An Awesome Wave in 2012, the percussive indie-experimentalists have been on a globe-trotting journey of a monumental masterclass. While An Awesome Wave showed youthful prosperity and unique divinity in a world empty of breeze-blocks and synth sand-pipes, it seems that 10 years later…
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Your Record of the Weekend: ‘New England’ – Kid Kapichi, Bob Vylan
Explosive exploits and fractured societies, New England is the new angsty social commentary piece on a country devoid of change – and simple change at that. Amongst the hypocritical self-centred nature of the country (Come witness the greatness of Britain / Diving around in a German car / Stop for lunch in a sushi bar)…
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Year in Review 2021: What’s Happened with our Music this Year?
So, 2021. As another year passes in a blink of an eye, we decide to look back at all things that were presented to us in 2021 in terms of music. Newsworthy Moments in Music It was a colossal moment for women in music. Encompassing powerhouses from the popular – soloist debuts for the ages…
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Our Record Store: Rough Trade
I had the privilege of visiting one of the many great independent purveyors of great music today – Rough Trade. Located across four stretches of UK life in Bristol, London, Nottingham – and even a managing to branch itself across the pond in NYC – Rough Trade has been an integral staple in the discovery…
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