An accomplished self-titled album that sees Stereolab’s French disko meeting April March’s songwriting prowess in front of the Eiffel Tower...
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Australian four-piece Lower Plenty call to mind the looseness of Flying Nun records releases on the superbly lo-fi ‘Hard Rubbish’...
Fat White Family deliver a blistering record, whose prickly lyrics and caustic rhythms will leave an indelible mark upon you...
After two years in which he suffered from writer’s block, John Smith returns sounding like he never went away riter’s...
Ancient History’s Donald Ducote recalls the downbeat and sombre songwriting of American Music Club and Red House Painter on ‘Tracks’...
Sinister folkies Dark Dark Dark return with a treat for Record Store Day – the moving, melancholic ‘What I Needed’...
On album number four, Matt Mondanile’s Ducktails sound at their most accomplished, with ‘The Flower Lane’ replete with melodic sensibility...
Waxahatchee’s Katie Crutchfield seems set to secure adoration, as second album Cerulean Salt takes the personal and makes it universal...
New Zealand band Popstrangers make some impressive steps in what could become a definitive stride towards a truly special career...
Caitlin Rose not only succeeds in circumnavigating the famously ‘difficult’ second album but records a real triumph with ‘The Stand-In’...
Album number two sees Beach Fossils writing surf-indie that’s destined to provide the backdrop to many a festival this year...
Night Beds places one hand on the mantle created by Fleet Foxes and Bon Iver with a beautiful debut album...
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