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Highly recommended. Kolapore produce a grandiose and exotic sound using a wide variety of instrumentation and styles. This is folk music at heart, but in the same way one classifies some of the best solo releases from Paul Simo...
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If possible, play “Druids” while trudging through a green forest as the sun sets. There’s something about this dark folk track that evokes that natural sentiment, sort of like how mellower Led Zep cuts were ap...
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Night Beats' Lee Blackwell and The Black Angels' Christian Blan allow their hazy psych-rock indulgences to flow even more freely with joint project The UFO Club. Its existence is fairly vague, apart from a cover of Ronettes' "B...
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I apologize for being late, again, with this. Look on the bright side: we’re only two weeks away from the August compilation. The two combined should feature about 40 bands or so in a span of 15 days. But let’s focu...
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I wish Nude Beach were the standard for house party bands. The trio honed their craft playing at them throughout high school, their convivial punk-rock sound serving as the perfect accompaniment to a good time. They produce a f...
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It was obvious that Madole’s next release would be superb, but impossible to guess its sound – especially now that he’s added a full band and Grammy-winning producer (Geoff Sanoff) to the mix. The stunning “Caving In” is the fi...
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“Every song is written and recorded in a few hours in our little bedroom studio called 'Bungalow Beach',” one-half of The Bodyboarders, Peter Darlington, says. “We're really into capturing things quickly.” This spontaneity is o...
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The dark and grimy vocal effect on Matthew Dear’s new effort, “Earthforms”, is otherworldly and haunting, much like the work of The Knife, whose personality and emotion are easily conveyed with the mastering of sound-altering e...
