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15 Oct

Yo Majesty ‘Futuristically Speaking…Never Be Afraid’

Yo Majesty ‘Futuristically Speaking…Never Be Afraid’

If you like Gangsta Rap, then Yo Majesty are the antichrist. Hip Hop’s hot tempered brats spit on bling and designer schmutter, giving you nasty …

 
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25 Sep

An Intimate Glimpse Into The Life Of Disco’s Dark Prince

An Intimate Glimpse Into The Life Of Disco’s Dark Prince

He recorded two all-time Disco classics and innumerable songs sitting somewhere between Pop and Avantgarde. Film maker Matt Wolf takes you on a 70-minute ride …

 
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08 Sep

A Sharp, Short Shock

A Sharp, Short Shock

So you want something new, something different. You’re tired of listening to the same old chords every time. These New Puritans do things differently. It’s …

 
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04 Sep

Free Blood In ‘Royal Family’ Shocker

Free Blood In ‘Royal Family’ Shocker

Boisterous, noisy dance music straight from the streets of Brooklyn, New York. Free Blood travel in the tyre tracks of No Wave mavericks like Liquid …

 
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19 Aug

Monkey ‘Journey To The West’

Monkey ‘Journey To The West’

This is the Damon Albarn score for an opera based on a popular Chinese folk tale. The Blur frontman combines Asian Pop, Prog Rock and whacky skits reminiscent of New Wave pranksters The Residents.

 
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14 Aug

Lykke Li ‘Youth Novels’

Lykke Li ‘Youth Novels’

You could dismiss Li as little girl’s voice pop for twentysomething males, but you’d make a mistake. Li makes simply achingly cool music. Like Nouvelle Vague with balls.

 
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07 Aug

The Foals ‘Antidotes’

The Foals ‘Antidotes’

Franz Ferdinand meets The Specials. Tight rhythms, metallic guitars and tense vocals. The Foals share an ear for decent grooves with fellow Oxford band Radiohead.

 
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29 Jul

Micah P. Hinson ‘Micah P. Hinson And The Red Empire Orchestra’

Micah P. Hinson ‘Micah P. Hinson And The Red Empire Orchestra’

Like Tom Waits meeting Leonard Cohen in a roadside ale house, this album combines lust, rage and sadness with a taste for sleezy late night music. Micah is out in a league of his own.

 
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23 Jul

Various Production ‘Versus’

Various Production ‘Versus’

Various Production are the remix team that put the bomp into Thom Yorke’s ‘Analyse’ and even succeeded in making the dreadful Sugarbabes palatable. Here’s an album full of wonky beats.

 
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