Coalescing an idiosyncratic and sophisticated flair with unmatched tunefulness, Tomorrow's Yesterday summons giants like Nick Drake, The Beatles and Simon & Garfunkel as departure points on an infectious tour of chamber, acoustic an…
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Klavikord
Andreas Eklof / Mats Persson
When Andreas Eklöf and Mats Persson co-operated on Eklöfs’s album NOR (Compunctio 2008) it was listed as one top modern composition albums of the year in the magazine Wire and others. On this album they take the co-opera…
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18 years after the release of their landmark self-titled debut, Cardinal – the recording collaboration between Richard Davies and Eric Matthews – are preparing to unveil their long awaited new album. The new record, entitled Hymn…
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- Available on: Vinyl LP £11.59, CD £10.69
Cousteau have a new album in the record racks called 'Sirena'
its sophisticated pop f…
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Over the years Efterklang hae developed an insatiable taste for adventure, keen to immerse themselves in different projects and be challenged musically. Collaborating with classical orchestras is one such challe…
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- Available on: Double vinyl LP £20.99
'When We Fell Through The Ice' is the debut single from Fireworks Night…
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- Available on: 7" vinyl £3.19
Ragged Garden
Gerry Mitchell & Little Sparta
Fire Records have put out the long playing debut of Gerry Mitchell's collaboration with Little Sparta. If you're familiar with this pairings work then you'll know what to expect here. It's a dark brew of black spoken word/ poetry and mournful strings…
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JACK are a band I never really got at the time. I was pretty much a massive
fan of everything on Too Pure back then aside from Jack. So it's with older ears
I listen to Pioneer Soundtracks which has been reissued by Spinney…
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Jenny Hval is a Norwegian artist and writer. With her background in writing and performance her music is poetic, sensual, challenging, dark and beautiful as well as melodic and spacious.“Viscera” is set in the body. The songs are stori…
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- Available on: Double vinyl LP £17.39, CD £12.69
Sixty Strings
Jesse Sparhawk / Eric Carbonara
Here's another of those guitarry things on VHF I was on about. This 'un is by Jesse Sparhawk (Beverly Hills 90210) and Eric Carbonara (Charmed and season 2 of Supernatural). Ho ho... I'm so fucking funny. Straight to business... Eric p…
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- Available on: Vinyl LP £14.99, CD £13.19
Leaf have scooped up a nice li'l record here from Jherek Bischoff - a Seattle…
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- Available on: Vinyl LP £11.69, CD £8.29
Christ, if you'd told me a few years ago that Lanterns on the Lake would not only get signed to Indie behemoths Bella Union and be touring the world and elsewhere I'd have literally eaten a horse. It's not that they are not a good band, they ar…
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- Available on: CD £12.59, Vinyl LP £14.99
Based in Manchester, Last Harbour are an expansive collective playing "swooning dustbowl baroque" (Plan B) that is "rich and foreboding" (Drowned in Sound). From dusty laments to doomfilled rock, from starkly beautiful duets to drifting clouds of …
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Brian's brain exploded earlier and he couldn't think of anything to write about the Little Sparta & Sally Timms CD single so he gave me a vacant look and chucked it in my review pile. Okay so 'Best Intentions' is out on Sally Timms' (The Mekons) …
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- Available on: CD single £3.19
Laborintus II
Luciano Berio / Mike Patton
* Mike Patton, joined by the Brussels-based Ictus Ensemble, pay tribute to pioneering composer Luciano Berio with the release of Laborintus II via Ipecac Recordings.
*In short, Laborintus II is a modern plunge i…
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