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I Draw Slow “Turn Your Face To The Sun” (Compass Records, 2017)

August 16, 2017 Mark Nenadic 0
As American bluegrass/roots music is essentially born of Celtic roots music, the emerging success of I Draw Slow in the USA is no surprise, although I Draw Slow is quite a strange band name – whether […]
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Romantica “Shadowlands” (At The Helm Records, 2017)

August 15, 2017 Keith Hargreaves 0
Opening with ‘Let The Light Go Through You’ Ben Kyle’s first release for seven years in the guise of Romantica is a wash of lush arrangement and hymnal vocals where his Irish inflexions are highlighted. There […]
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Malachi Vale “Swan Song” (Maisonnette, 2017)

August 15, 2017 Scott Baxter 0
Machai Vale is the pseudonym of Marc Gagnon, a Montreal native whose previous recorded output was with alt-punk-country-swing (it says here) outfit, Pipo Fiasco. Having no idea what alt-punk-country-swing is, it was hard to know what […]
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Pete Fij/Terry Bickers “We Are Millionaires” (Broadcast Recordings, 2017)

August 14, 2017 Scott Baxter 0
Second album from ex-Creation artists who flirted with success in the late 80s and early 90s with Adorable (Fij), House of Love and Levitation (Bickers) and who, through the education of life and its attendant struggles […]
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Mount Song “Mount Song” (Suncave Recordings, 2017)

August 14, 2017 David Cowling 0
You know that hazy rock sound, the one where the songs seem to drift along on a kind of medicated meander? That’s what Mount Song do. They never push too hard the songs that aren’t suffused […]

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