Sonny Smith’s ‘Tomorrow is Alright’ had a limited vinyl release last year, and now Fat Possum have picked it up just in time for the lazy end of late summer. With the help of his loose group of Sunsets (including...

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Look up psychedelic in the dictionary and you will come up with terms such as altered state, distorted perception and hallucination, all seemingly suggesting a warped take on your surroundings; a certain disregard for parameters, which, of course, applies to...

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Fol Chen’s futurist pop proves that you don’t have to sound post-punk to be completely on the cutting edge. Their music bears scant relation to practically any other band we know of, barring Canada’s fine Oen Sujet. But where the...

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Truth be told Bowlegs initially struggled to piece together the new Menomena album. The highly anticipated follow-up to the band’s excellent ‘Friend or Foe’ is a broader piece of music than we may have been expecting. The epic scale has...

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Will Wiesenfeld, the man behind Baths, builds his music on a series of self-stumbling beats, taking the bumpier, off-road alternative to the Chill Wave posse (of whom he may be likened). Imagine Flying Lotus taking in a touch of Toro Y...

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There’s a point on Secret Cities’ song ‘Aw Rats’ where – in the midst of this brave stomp – the vocals become so buried in reverb it leaves us feeling quite disconnected. You just cannot hear any of the words,...

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‘Ooh ooh hey hey yeah!’ That’s the sound of Bowlegs’ excitable girl-group harmonising to new female-fronted pop crushes Neverever, as they wash away landfill indie in a flood of jangle, yearning, and above all, glorious pop songs. ‘Angelic Swells’, the first...

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Clogs’ fifth album is a cleverly entwined piece of scattered folk with a classical heart, merging atmospherics with organic sounds. The way it gently unwinds over the course of its ten tracks – un-rushed, un-affected – it may not be...

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‘Mare’ is Julian Lynch at his best; the New Jersey musician producing a set of what is mainly instrumentals. They all sound hatched between dawn and dusk, oozing personality in their unhindered simplicity. From the production to the music...

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