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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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Raffy Bushman – New Life
Jazz’s critics often overlook the simple truth that when the wide ranging, often maligned, genre locks into a groove, it can be as rhythmically charged and dance‑inducing as anything on a club system. That pulse has been there from the earliest swing bands through the breakbeat gold of Blue Note and the fusion era, right… Read more
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Bity Booker – There’s No Song About A Stone
It is always a delight in the business of music discovery, record hunting and general audio thrill seeking, to come across an artist who you assume will be of a familiar type only for them to far exceed your presumptions. Not only that, but also equally beguiling is when there is something quite mysterious about… Read more
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