Category: music
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Japanese Breakfast: “Jubilee” album review – infectious indie pop-rock shines on a new dawn
Japanese Breakfast paves the way again with third instalment in infectious torques of indie sunshine and melancholic alternatives. Whether or not you’re a true believer in “set genres” in the world of music, Japanese Breakfast’s Korean-American Michelle Zauner is the epitome of indie pop-rock. Much like the band name itself – spunky and “exotic” much […]
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YOUR NEW MUSIC FRIDAY: 25/11
New Stormzy. New iterations of David Bowie. It’s beginning to look like Christmas. Apologies that this one is a late one nearing the end of the weekend. Despite the disappointment of the fore-planned Florence tour being postponed due to a broken foot on the Friday at Direct Arena, I had a rather wondrous time navigating […]
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Confidence Man: LIVE review at Nottingham – a pop party for the ages…
A frenetic rave full of fun… this is trademark Confidence Man, after all. On the Thursday, Confidence Man kicked off another leg of their extended run in the UK, celebrating the transformative of butter-dance pop, TILT that came out earlier this year amidst the heatwave. And while it wasn’t fitting in terms of location and […]
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Confidence Man: “TILT” album review – the biggest top-of-the-pop parade
Universally weird and wonderful, Confidence Man return with their portable parade of lavish feel-good frenetics to make you lose you cool. When Confident Music for Confident People dropped in 2018, it set off a catastrophic bomb in the tropes of dance-pop. Heads were turned, eyebrows were raised and standards were set. Standards that often came […]
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Box of Trash: “Here and Now” Single Review – side project hits strides
An initial side project of scrawled notes – now a fully formed brainchild – Box of Trash have started their journey into the world of frenetic rock ‘n’ roll with the release of their very first single, Here and Now. Formally deriving from the Ayrshire lands in South-West Scotland, they have very much implanted their […]
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