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New Mix: Fruit Tree Records – The Fruit Cellar Vol. 3
Volume 3 of our shelf rifling dive into the deep Fruit Tree Records collection begins with a blast of baroque, sunshine pop from 2001 by Modesty Blaise, heard here in a single version available on the new re-issue album ‘Melancholia,’ which is extended into a 3-disc deluxe 25th anniversary release. We then go deep into… Read more
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Fresh Juice 27th April 2026
Michael Stipe – The Rest Of Ever This week’s half dozen new music recommendations seems to have settled around a theme of historically much-loved artists stepping back into the spotlight. I think it was sometime around 1991 when I first read Michael Stipe in an interview talking about how he was planning a solo album.… Read more
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Various – Something For The Longing (Scottish Independent Pop 1985-1999)
Ever since Elvis Costello, carving out a Jools Holland‑style TV‑presenter niche in the early 21st century, declared the 1980s “the decade that taste forgot,” it has almost been treated as fact. And while there are solid musical reasons not to revere the eighties the way we do the three decades before it, what is often… Read more
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Hannah Lew – Hannah Lew
This self-titled debut album may well be the most out-and-out pop record I have written about on these pages this year but, as is so often the case with pop I love both new and old, it arrives from the hand of an artist with a broader range of musical reference in her armoury. Even… Read more
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New Mix: Fruit Tree Records – Fresh Juice 2026 Vol. 5
Volume five of our 2026 new music releases series ‘Fresh Juice’ opens with the welcome return of Tom Waits alongside Massive Attack before embarking on a journey incorporating new sounds in Psych Pop, Garage Rock, Electro Pop, Folk, Soul, Americana and Singer-Songwriter before ending on one of the greatest Blue Note Jazz tracks released this… Read more
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Ella Clayton – Could It Be You?
It can sometimes feel that an artist stating they were aiming for a warm analogue sound has lost its impact with chronic overuse. There is actually an important ideal at the roots of an ambition like that, but such is the ubiquity of the claim it has almost become shorthand for non-electronic music. But if… Read more
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