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Meiko Kaji – Otoko Onna Kokoro No Aika
Wewantsounds’ ongoing excavation of Meiko Kaji’s early‑’70s catalogue continues to reveal just how much more there is to her legacy than the cult‑cinema mythology. Best known internationally for Lady Snowblood and the Stray Cat Rock films, Kaji was also a striking vocalist, capable of turning pop melodrama and noir‑shaded groove into something that was easily… Read more
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Fresh Juice 25th May 2026
Alela Diane – Dusty Roses On her new album, ‘Who’s Keeping Time?’ which was written in the quiet daytime hours of her 1892 Victorian attic, Alela Diane carries the unhurried clarity that arrived when domestic life finally softened around her. Reconnecting with Portland’s creative community, trading guitar lessons with Peter Lalish, sharing tea with Anna… Read more
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Little Barrie – Gravity Freeze
I have always thought of Barrie Cadogan as a Jeff Beck or Ronnie Wood kind of figure in the modern music world. Appearing to be more comfortable as the engine room of the electric guitar rather than the front stage focus, he nevertheless has a facility for conjuring blues and psych inflected magic from his… Read more
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Alela Diane – Who’s Keeping Time?
In my daily musical listening activities I do come across a lot of new singer-songwriters of an acoustic, introspective flavour. So much so that you could make an argument for this coffee store style of quiet balladry enjoying as much of a trend setting age now as in the early seventies when Joni Mitchell, Neil… Read more
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New Mix: Fruit Tree Records – Fresh Juice 2026 Vol. 7
Volume seven of our 2026 new music releases series ‘Fresh Juice’ opens with some timely new, modern day protest folk-rock from the ever wonderful Waterboys before embarking on a journey incorporating new sounds in Psych Pop, Garage Rock, Electro Pop, Folk, Americana, Soul and Singer-Songwriter before ending in some seriously far out instrumental experimentation and… Read more
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Jasmine Myra – Where Light Settles
The key word here feels like ‘duality,’ as there are doubled-up, parallel layers surrounding this music in abundance. Firstly, the beauty of the sound itself, this is very much a composed piece of work in which the textures and intricacies are many and they have been applied with precision and clear intent. And yet, there… Read more
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