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17th April 2023
Alison Goldfrapp – So Hard So Hot New solo release in which Alison lets her love of house and dance grooves out of the bag, with a video vignette by Alison & Mat Maitland at Big Active. The first in a series of visual accompaniments to tracks from the upcoming album ‘The Love Invention’ (out… Read more
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10th April 2023
Wednesday – Chosen To Deserve From North Carolina, Wednesday are an abrasive Americana band comprising Karly Hartzman on vocals, Jake Lenderman on guitar, Xandy Chelmis on lap steel and Alan Miller on drums. They are signed to the Dead Oceans label and forthcoming album ‘Rat Saw God’ is their fifth in as many years but… Read more
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3rd April 2023
Richard Gavril – Say Nothing At All Another selection from the #gemsintherough competition on YouTube right now, this is a singer and a song that just stood out a mile. Fantastic writing alongside dexterous guitar playing, beautifully sung, an original number in the style of the classic sixties Tom Paxton or Paul Simon style of… Read more
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April 2023 Playlist
On a previous monthly playlist post this year I wrote about my mild disappointment in a TV documentary claiming to be about a ‘great lost Nina Simone album’ which was really just a thin excuse to place Emile Sande with some of Nina’s old musicians and play a jazz gig enhanced by the Simone spirit.… Read more
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27th March 2023
The Burning Hell – All I Need I think I came to The Burning Hell around ten years ago thanks to the recommendation of Paul Heaton (Beautiful South & Housemartins) in a magazine interview. He said he’d been listening to them and another band called Ages And Ages and they turned out to be two… Read more
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20th March 2023
A half dozen weekly fresh picks of tasty new music… Pynch – London From the bands debut album ‘Howling At a Concrete Moon’ which is due out on April 14th 2023, this is a take on melancholic pop music that lands its punches. As seen in this nostalgia tinted video, the song sets the hopes… Read more
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