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Nothing

(4AD)

Your worst fears about ‘Nothing’ are probably right. The late-year, post-album extended-play sounds like the runoff of a few constructions that didn’t make the cut for ‘Dedication’.

Milagres

Glowing Mouth

(Memphis Industries)

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Bad Dream Hotline

(Vertigo)

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British Sea Power

Concorde 2
Brighton

It’s hard to fathom that British Sea Power now have five albums under their belts.

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Flying Lotus touches down at KOKO

In the Flying Lotus Alphabet Wall Chart, A is for Astral, B is for Brainmelt and so on. Sorry to keep going-on about space and stuff all the time but it does seem to be a tangent of a whole heap of great music, as if the best musicians are just failed astronauts trying to sonically approximate the alone-with-God head-fuck of cruising through black-blue nothing.

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Seefeel Support Michael Rother’s Barbican Kraut Odyssey

Keeping a blog’s like looking after a plant; sometimes you totally space and it ends up dry and flecked with white specks of disease instead of bearing interesting green shoots. A while ago this blog was graced with the presence of Michael Rother, which was cool. Then a few weeks ago I had meant to [...]

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Ǿya Festival Day Four

The final installment from a knackering tour de force of live entertainment

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Ǿya Festival Day Three

Crimson and Clover was the first song I heard yesterday. Broken Bells were covering it as I got into the festival site and what with it being one of my favourite all time songs…

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Ǿya Festival Day Two

More from Oslo’s music festival par excellence.

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Ǿya Festival Day One

First installment of a day-by-day blog covering Oslo’s Ǿya Festival, the most socially democratic, environmentally conscious, high-design music festival on the planet with a killer line up.

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