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17 Apr 2026

The Golden Samphire Band - Dream Is The Driver

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After only recently catching up with Junkboy’s 2023 release Littoral States, I was delighted to find I wouldn’t have a long wait for new m...
14 Apr 2026

The Eighteenth Day Of May – S/T Expanded Reissue

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The Eighteenth Day Of May only managed one album in their short lifetime, and I've been a long time fan but have never found an opportun...
10 Apr 2026

The Lazy Eyes - Songbook

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Here's another excellent band that popped up during our long hibernation.  I was initially drawn to The Lazy Eyes when I noticed they ha...
1 Apr 2026

Willow Tea - Death And Life And All That Lays In Between

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  'Naive melodies for imaginary films and short walks' is how the Berlin based Willow Tea describe their music and their latest, Dea...
26 Mar 2026

Telegraph - Topography of Mind

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  If I was given this as the subject of a blind-folded taste test and asked to guess its country and date of origin I would more than likely...
23 Mar 2026

Analysing A Ghost By Electronic Means

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This one is a little more niche than what I would normally cover and given its very specific theme, it’s probably already known by a lot of...
19 Mar 2026

The New Eves - The New Eve Is Rising

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Brighton folk-punk quartet the New Eves drag the folk tradition kicking and screaming into the 21st century on their superb debut LP. It’s...
18 Mar 2026

Bressa Creeting Cake

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I've been revisiting this old favourite of late and thought I'd share it here as its largely unknown outside of New Zealand, and to ...
15 Mar 2026

Spooky Eyes - S/T

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This Tasmania three-piece's debut is a great old fashioned psychedelic power trio album that doesn't sound a day over 1970 and is se...
13 Mar 2026

Takeshi Terauchi - Eleki Bushi 1966-1974

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Japan in the sixties was surf guitar mad, enough so to spawn its own sub-genre, Eleki. Upon their first tour of Japan the Ventures became su...
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