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Fresh from a Mercury Prize nomination. Revisit our review of Sam Fender’s People Watching.

An ambitious shot at greatness that falls short by too often forcing the issue.

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Album Review: Sam Fender – People Watching
The Geordie star shoots for greatness but falls short by too often forcing the issue
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🌙 Moonchild Sanelly’s Full Moon is bold, cheeky & heartfelt - amapiano grooves, body-positive bravado, and raw vulnerability shape her future ghetto funk.

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Album Review: Moonchild Sanelly – Full Moon
A review of the latest from South African star, Moonchild Sanelly. An album full of heart, humour, and horniness.
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This Side of the Island finds The Walkmen frontman, Hamilton Leithauser, at his most ragged & radiant - shrill yet soulful, playful yet profound. Imperfectly perfect.

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Album Review: Hamilton Leithauser – This Side of the Island
A review of the latest solo effort from The Walkmen frontman.
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If you haven’t got round to them already their Monstrous Psychedelic Bubble comps from around this time are pretty great as well.
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Oasis like you’ve never heard them. Amorphous Androgynous turned a middling latter day single into a 22-minute psychedelic odyssey; filled with sitars, strings, and warped vocals. The sound of a cosmic rebirth.

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Track of the Day: Oasis – Falling Down (Amorphous Androgynous Remix)
As a Oasis fever grips the UK, our track of the day looks back at an oddity unlike anything else in their catalogue.
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Small Time Monsters is a blend of gothic imagery and classic pop that masks haunting tales of heartbreak and desire.

From Western-disco to dreamy jangles, The Dream Machine are upstart eccentrics with the skill of old masters. Review👇

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Album Review: The Dream Machine – Small Time Monsters
A review of the second album from Merseyside psych-pop eccentrics, The Dream Machine.
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“Contrasts and contradictions drive a thought-provoking study of growing up poor in Britain”

Revisit our review of the best UK rap album of last year, the Mobo Award winning Being Poor Is Expensive by Bashy.

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Album Review: Bashy – Being Poor is Expensive
Contrasts and contradictions drive a thought-provoking study of growing up poor in Britain
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Album Review: The Courettes - The Soul Of…The Fabulous Courettes

The wide-eyed sweetness of Phil Spector girl-groups meets the wild-eyed garage rock psychedelia you’d uncover on a Nuggets compilation.
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Album Review: The Courettes – The Soul Of…The Fabulous Courettes
The wide-eyed sweetness of Phil Spector girl-groups meets the wild-eyed garage rock psychedelia you’d uncover on a Nuggets compilation.
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Despite the diminishing returns, Oasis’ later years were still peppered with occasional gems. This psych epic is quite unlike anything else in their catalogue. Albeit, the real credit doesn’t go to Oasis themselves.

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Track of the Day: Oasis – Falling Down (Amorphous Androgynous Remix)
As a Oasis fever grips the UK, our track of the day looks back at an oddity unlike anything else in their catalogue.
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EP Review: Westside Gunn - HEELS HAVE EYES

Tied to his latest venture as a wrestling promoter, it was only appropriate to look at this through the lens of wrestling. - “This is Ric Flair as the touring NWA champ of the 80’s.”

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EP Review: Westside Gunn – HEELS HAVE EYES
A review of Westside Gunn’s latest EP. Tied to his latest venture as a wrestling promoter, we look at one of underground rap’s biggest stars as a parallel to a veteran wrestler.
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Rhys Langston’s “rapper’s singer-songwriter record” is a boundary blurring opus as his lyrical flair is met with an emotive immediacy, amidst inventive, convention-defying compositions.

Album Review: Rhys Langston - Pale Black Negative
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Album Review: Rhys Langston – Pale Black Negative
A boundary blurring opus as Langston’s lyrical flair is met with an emotive immediacy, amidst inventive, convention-defying compositions Pale Black Negative is ostensibly an underground hip-hop rec…
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A forgotten piece in the jigsaw of rock history, and one of the earliest entries in the metal canon.

From the archives, a review of the obscure proto-metal classic, Randy Holden’s Population II.

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