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Listen: Embers – Part of the Echoes
‘Part Of The Echoes’ is vast and grandiose, making an impact with urgent vocals that already beg for the drunken singalong of a festival crowd, yet also make you want to run through the rain majestically. Needless to say, it’s pretty huge.
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Download: Smallpools – Dreaming
‘Dreaming’ is a near perfect slice of sugar-rush pop. Part Foster The People, part Phoenix and part Passion Pit, this is sunshine-inspired wunderfulness.
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New Video: Battleships – As You’d Begun
It neatly sums up what make this band loveable. The drums are beefy, the guitars shimmer, and Jordan Sturdee’s distinctive vocals flutter delightfully over the top of it all.
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Album Review: Daft Punk- Random Access Memories
‘Random Access Memories sees Daft Punk attempt to take dance music forward by looking back, presenting a love letter to the 1970′s enveloped in electronic modernity…’
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Listen: Holy Ghost – Dumb Disco Ideas
It starts in modest LCD Soundsystem-esque pop song trappings and over the course of its eight minutes develops into something utterly transcendent.
Listen: The Dodos – Confidence
‘Confidence’ is a chipper slice of folk indebted indie-pop that blends plucked acoustic guitar with Long’s bright melodies and a harmony-drenched chorus
Listen: Mayer Hawthorne- Her Favourite Song (Feat. Jessie Ware)
‘Her Favourite Song’ sees Ware and Hawthorne bring together the different aspects of retro soul they are reviving in their respective solo careers, as the track revolves around a throwback bass groove with Ware providing an understated and subtle chorus hook.
Listen: MMX – Ritual
The track is strong. Shards of synth and spacey guitar weave in and out of each other underneath an emotive, soaring vocal. Basically, it’s really good yeh.
Listen: The 1975 – fallingforyou
This is opaque and atmospheric, with Healy’s processed vocals and the disjointed, fractured beat that it’s all built around.
Album Review: The National – Trouble Will Find Me
A slow burning effort dripping with paranoia and heartbreak that combines elements of the anthemic with the subtle craft of storytelling and sees the group propel themselves past 2009’s critically acclaimed High Violet
Listen: Big Deal – Dream Machines
As expected from previous singles, ‘Dream Machines’ is heavy on the guitars but whereas previous offerings have been grungy, down-strummed chords, this almost flutters by on an intoxicating, chiming pattern
Album Review: The New Regime – Exhibit A
While solo projects aren’t always for everyone (just ask Ace Frehley), Rubin proves he’s a steady enough hand to steer
Listen: Small Black – No Stranger
Built around woozy synths and shards of icy guitar before singer Josh Kolenik’s distintive, casual vocal enters this perfectly organised party
New Video: The Kissaway Trail – Norrebro
Not a massive departure from what we’re used to from the band, but melodically this flies straight and true. Bucket loads of guitar delay too
WTGR Premiere: Febueder – Galeo
There is a stark, undeniable resemblance to Alt-J in its delivery but this is playful too and sounds like the work of three young men with talent and songcraft beyond their years
