New Music – October
Yumi Zouma – EP Collection (Cascine) We’ve had the first EP by Yumi Zouma in our catalogue for a while now but somehow the second slipped by us. Thankfully we’ve caught this reissue of both EPs, and...
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Roots Manuva – Bleed (Big Dada) Now on album number seven, if you exclude his top class dub albums, Roots Manuva has spent two decades developing a distinctive and equally inventive Hip Hop style that...
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Here’s our run down of our favourite releases of the past year. Each one has featured heavily across our venues, and there should be a little something for everyone. It’s been a great year, and after...
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Yorkston/Thorne/Khan – Everything Sacred (Domino) Here’s a Folk supergroup if ever there was one, comprised of the Domino regular and highly respected Scottish Folk musician John Yorkston, the...
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Rihanna – ANTI (Roc Nation) This is nominally an R&B album by one of the biggest Pop stars in the world, whether you’d actually know either of those things on hearing the album is quite another...
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Radiohead – A Moon Shaped Pool (XL Recordings) Many would argue Radiohead have one poor album. Whether it’s a twenty-three year old album or a five year old one is much debated. Now that album number...
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Ladyhawke – Wild Things (Polyvinyl) Electro Pop can be icy cool, stylish, and sophisticated; feeling like it’s pushing at the boundaries of Pop while developing an artistic vision. It can also feel...
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Shura – Nothing’s Real (Polydor) After being nominated for the BBC Sound Of… last year despite not having a full length to her name, Shura has created an Electro Pop album that showcases an...
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King Creosote and Michael Johnston – The Bound of the Red Deer (Self Release) Ten years in the making, thanks to the prolific nature of both musicians and the distance of the Atlantic Ocean between...
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Izzy Bizu – A Moment of Madness (Epic) As a nominee for the BBC Sound of ’16 it’s notable that Izzy Bizu focuses on the classic sound of Soul. That’s not to say that this is a nostalgia fest,...
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