Author: Ricky Lomas
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Album Review: Beabadoobee – Pylon (Dirty Hit)
Picture the scene. You’re on the open road, in the backseat as someone else drives, and you stare out the window, letting the white lines swing under the car. You’re riding off to a new place, one that you’re not sure will bring the things you want, only connected back to those you know and…
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Album Review: Tokyo Tearoom – Feel Forever
Lately, I’ve been feeling as if a lot of new music I hear is being run through an audio compressor, flattening out the peaks and valleys into one great sonic hum. Feel Forever, the second album from Margate-based dream-pop band Tokyo Tea Room, only exacerbated this feeling. Opening up the album was Hypnotized, a song…
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Live Review: caroline, Knockdown Center – New York (21/05/26)
“It brought to mind a wave returning again and again to crash against a rocky and lichenous shore: never the same, and always the same.”
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Single Review: Melt – Find Somebody
Since the success of their first single Sour Candy, which went viral while the members were still in high school, New York City band Melt have tried to find their footing. At that time they had seven members. Now they have three, and those remaining, Veronica, Marlo, and Lucas, seem ready to move on from…