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Blue Earth Sound – The St. Louis Sessions EP
The EP remains an important format, that half-way house between an LP and a single, enabling recording musicians to get spontaneously realised cuts into the ears of listeners speedily, rather than waiting on the grander ambitions of an album project. That is exactly the scenario we are presented with here, the end result of some… Read more
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New Mix: Fruit Tree Records – The Fruit Cellar Vol. 5
Volume 5 of our shelf rifling dive into the deep Fruit Tree Records collection is a genre surfing run through some of the tracks that have excited and delighted over the past couple of weeks. These include tasty dives into Blues Rock, Americana, Jazz, Indie, Soul and Folk opening with an especially grooving Art Blakey… Read more
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Fresh Juice 15th June 2026
Yea-Ming And The Rumours – Sweet Opiate This track is one of the new ‘Residue!’ albums quietest gut‑punches, a song that distils Yea‑Ming Chen’s gift for turning heartbreak into something soft‑glowing and strangely companionable. Where the album leans into late‑night melancholy and sun‑bleached solitude, this track feels like the ache sharpening into clarity, a confession… Read more
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Oral Habit – A Broken Chord
Isn’t it the truth that sometimes you do not know you are missing something until it comes right back staring you in the face? And so it was with this band, specifically my chance encounter with their song ‘Thin Trippin.’ It instantly summoned sonic senses that were once stimulated on a daily basis, the only… Read more
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Joan As Police Woman – Real Life Evolution
It was the summer of 2006 when I chanced upon Joan Wasser for the first time, performing in her Joan As Police Woman guise, at a venue called the Spitz near central London’s Spitalfields Market. I had no idea who she was, I had not attended the intimate club size room to see her, I… Read more
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New Mix: Fruit Tree Records – Fresh Juice 2026 Vol. 8
Volume eight of our 2026 new music releases series ‘Fresh Juice’ opens with some essential new soul sounds from Konyikeh with an undeniable retro punchiness before embarking on a journey incorporating new sounds in Psych Pop, Garage Rock, Indie, Folk, Americana, Country, Singer-Songwriter and Jazz before ending in outer space with Visible Cloaks as our… Read more
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