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Hook & the Twin – We’re so Light
I won’t waste any time here. Hook & Twin’s We’re so Light is just jaw droppingly good. I love the beat, and the vocals are full of soul, yet never overdone. It’s the sort of track you would post...
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Inspired and the Sleep – While We’re Young
I’m a huge fan of that DIY bedroom pop that Micachu or Tune-Yards make, so you can just imagine my delight when listening to Inspired and Sleep’s While we’re Young. The track consists of a catchy as...
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Follow Me – Fight or Flight
Just picture it – a garish dancefloor populated by a bunch of teens wearing black, and with so much gel applied to their scalp that you’d probably have your eye poked out if any of these people danced...
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Rebecca Zapen – Addicted to Love
I just go crazy over cover version, so when this link dropped into my inbox I was happy. I mean a Bossa Nova version of Robert Palmer’s Addicted to Love?? There’s already an art rock version, but this...
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Subburbia – You’re not Getting Older
Today Stagedive escapes the cold weather and heads off (metaphorically) to Brazil. We rarely get a chance to review music outside of Europe and North America so it’s a bit of an occasion when we...
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Evans the Death – I’m So Unclean
Ha, you thought Slumberland Records had a great 2011? Well, judging by this video it looks like 2012 will be just as stellar, for Evans the Death are spiky, melodic and damn sound great. The debut...
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Of Montreal – Wintered Debts
I’m not joking – the new Of Montreal single/teaser track starts off like a Simon and Garfunkel song, but then in true Of Montreal fashion is explodes into the glam muppet rock that they’ve perfected....
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Delicate Steve – Butterfly
Now this is a sweet video. We start off with a person carving a face in a block of wood, then as the camera pans we find out that it’s a field full of performance artists: a puppeteer; a lady with a...
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Whales in Cubicles – We Never Win
I just love it when the word Whale is used in a band’s moniker, album artwork or a songtitle. Don’t ask why, it’s one of those things. So calling your band Whales in Cubicles is great in my books....
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Blur: an album retrospective: Part 8 – Various Singles
Blur are no stranger to one off singles. Their first one was the punky Popscene, and over the years they’ve released a small handful, ranging from the Can inspired Music is my Radar to the rather...
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