It took them a long, long time ro resurface with a new album. But -you guessed it- it was worth the wait. Beautiful left-field shoegazer pop written andsung by Mona Mork and Patrick Lundberg. Their slow-floating rock melancholia reminded critics…
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To some folks the Akron/ Family probably sound like a bunch of slack jawed hippy yokels who like clapping too much and make a right shambling racket. And I guess if you thought that I probably wouldn't argue, but I would add they have made/ are still…
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One of the most pleasant surprises of the week was falling hook, line
& sinker for the new Akron/Family album, 'Set 'Em Wild, Set 'em Free'.
Never a more appropriate title for this fluid, galloping take on weird
rock & psychedelic outsider folk,…
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Speaking of greats, one of our all time top Norm faves is AL DUVALL
and we got a fantastic album in this week from Australia courtesy of those nice Dual
Plover folks (as well as a tasty selection of some of their wares). 'The
Timi…
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The Country Soul Ensemble is a burgeoning family of musicians that aim to bring you performances of a most heart felt and impassioned virtue. Laughter, shouts, and sobs all shake the soul in the same uncontrollable way, involuntary shudders of wha…
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- Available on: 7" vinyl £7.09
Lonesome Cowboys
Alan Tyler & The Lost Sons Of Littlefield
The return of Alan Tyler & the lost sons of Littlefield with an alt-country classic. The original Camden Cowboy and his band. Following the success of their critically-acclaimed, eponymous debut album in 2007 (Q Magazine rightly named it one of t…
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Holiday
Alaska In Winter
It was during a brief sojourn in a an isolated cabin in nowhere Alaska, where Brandon Bethancourt found his creative inspirations which led to his soloproject, Alaska in Winter. After returning to Albuquerque, he began to flesh out his Ala…
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File under: Psych, Folk, Rock. UK regional bias : North-West (Stoke-on-Trent). Alfa 9 'Gone To Ground' - their 2nd album, and follows their debut Then We Begin, recently described as “one of the best albums of the last decade&rdqu…
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Aloha follows the acclaimed LP Some Echoes (2006) and acoustic EP Light Works(2007) with a powerful record that shows the band unbound by past influences and boldlystepping out of the shadows.Home Acres pushes the tempos and dials up the guitars, wit…
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- Available on: Double vinyl LP £14.09
1. All My Love, 2. The Victory Choir, 3. The Decibels and the Little Pills, 4. The Sleeping Beauty5. The Stars, 6. All the Lost Souls Welcome You to San Francisco, 7. Who You Are8. The Windows of the World, 9. …
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Guilford County Songs is the Andrew Weathers Ensemble's second studio album, an acoustic reinterpretation of Weathers' 2009 solo album A Great Southern City. The album was recorded in an afternoon in Asheville, NC, days before Weathers moved ac…
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- Available on: Posters/Miscellaneous £3.29
First coming to attention via appearances with Bonnie Prince Billy, Olsen’s voice is initially disconcerting but by only the…
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- Available on: Vinyl LP £17.29, CD £9.89
Three
Archer Prewitt
Archer Prewitt is also from Chicago (the new Leeds anyone?) and
was also in the afore…
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Labelmates Young And Sexy and The Awkward Stage share a love of imaginative and intelligent lyrics, intricate and subtle pop hooks and vintageguitar and keyboard sounds making a perfect match for a split release together. These two previously un…
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- Available on: 7" vinyl £3.49
· ‘How Will You?’ is the sparkling new albumfrom Azita, her fourth for Drag City.· Azita’s all-star Chicago rhythm sectionincludes Matt Lux (Isotope 217, Iron andWine, Plush) on bass, John Herndon…
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- Available on: CD £12.89, Vinyl LP £14.59
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