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Cult, It’s Joan Pope
Joan Pope uses her body to promote her religion and calls it art, you decide. (read more)
Articles by NAP and Nico
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Great Quails’ Eggs, But a Bitter Taste in the Mouth: The Pips
Metropolitan and erudite in other ways, why do great venues insist on pastiche music? (read more)
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Waiting on the Sun (Jule Vera)
While Jule Vera wait for summer, the listener waits for an original hook. (read more)
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Broken Beats, Split Personalities: Stranger (Joanne Pollock)
Frosty and frantic – there are two sides to the iceberg that is Joanne Pollock’s debut (read more)
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Have Cape, Will Strut. To the Rescue Rooms! (Shura)
Poise and professionalism even when the room’s half-empty – the true measure of a star. Shura rocks Nottingham regardless. (read more)
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Rave Nostalgia in it’s Entire Spectrum (Colorhythm)
A nostalgic net cast wide to capture the beats, breaks and bombs of the rave era. (read more)
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Nordic Techno goes IKEA. Laiva T#16
A moment of head-down eyes-closed dancefloor reverie is captured perfectly. (read more)
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Bass, Beats, Bumps and Bees. (Peru Boom)
Bass, bleeps, beats and bumps from Peru’s underground dance scene. What’s that doing here, and can it revive a flagging bee found comotose in the reviewer’s garden? Peru Boom 2015 (read more)
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IntO the mOOn : Passing Clouds [Live]
A self-possessed alternative gypsy rock band whose lyrics resound with those who want to say something but don’t quite know how to say it. (read more)
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Odesza : In Return
Is that too much to ask of an album? That it alter a mood and inject a missing confidence? (read more)
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Busdriver : Perfect Hair
We are understandably fazed when approached by new aspects of music genres that are pushing the dimensions of their own genre to another space and alien neighbourhood. The fazing affect of finding a new hybrid (read more)
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Evy Jane : Closer [EP]
Evy Jane are the cake that must be eaten, but with the crème placed in one of those naughty places that only a tongue can remove. (read more)
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The Eye of Time : Acoustic
The album Acoustic places you in a paused sense of feeling, a disruptive and causal sense that yesteryear and future are being played out. (read more)
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Lorn : Debris [EP]
The Debris EP is of the grind and grimey sort, very uncomplex and less pepped up than most. A crushing defeat to the ears. (read more)
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Ex-Friendly : ‘Journey Man’
A style that reverbs and trip-hops deep house to a more obscure level (read more)
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Tricky, Maxinquaye: Live – Manchester
“I drink ‘til I’m drunk”. Maybe we all have something in common. Warrington, I missed my stop. Luckily I met a nice pair of ladies in Lizzy and Jenni (note. A soft Scottish voice that (read more)
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Edward Burra: Nottingham Lakeside
In some respects a English version of Georg Grosz, Edward Burra's art is more personal, less political. And very sexy. Burra, a master of colour and the human form, places one in a three-dimensional theatre (read more)
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Maya Jane Coles: DJ Kicks
Whoop! Funky vibes all round are coming through my Grados. Sixteen years into its long reign as Mixmag's 'most important DJ-mix series ever', DJ Kicks continues to do what it has always done – offer (read more)
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Rashid Rana: NAE at Hyson Green
Rashid Rana’s: Everything Is Happening At Once (read more)
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Evy Jane: Sayso and Ohso (+Remixes)
I know the sexualisation of R&B has been overdone to a point where it has become sexually gratifying, big arses and jiggly tits sitting and dancing on Hummers, where the amount of fuel one can (read more)