“Sprouting up from seeds planted by the likes of Luca Brasi or Sly Withers, this one from Acacia Bloom grows like a weed, snaking up your body until you’re covered in the stuff 🌿”
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Acacia Bloom – Nowhere On Earth
Author: Alex Kirk
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The Sweaty Bettys – Gas Light
“The Sweaty Bettys take the core of The Cure’s ‘Just Like Heaven’ and riff on it for three minutes, throaty and raw and full of Cope-y blank verse. It’s quite the concoction – louche and wry, a fuzzy banger with a casual strut 🚶♂️”
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Phoebe Go – Something You Were Trying
“Chock full of subtle and delicate musical moments, and humming with savage wit, Phoebe Go’s latest spurs the mind as much as it soothes the soul. It’s far from something you’ll only try once – full-on addiction beckons 💉”
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Agnes Manners – Riot Bitch
“Agnes Manners have been on a tear of some gloriously smart songwriting, and this drum-less wonder is another cracker. You keep expecting it to lose its mind, but it never does – instead it just gets well and truly stuck in yours 🧠”
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FVNERAL – MERCY
“FVNERAL haunt and hypnotise on ‘MERCY’, floating deep into your core without you even noticing it. A few listens in and you realise you might have just stopped breathing there for a bit 😵💫”
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3% – OUR PEOPLE (feat. The Presets)
“3% debut is a gigantic musical introduction for three artists that need none, in the shape of Nooky, Dallas Woods, and Angus Field. This new project’s first track – hopefully of many – might be slow in tempo but is never low in temperature, licks of fire flying off it in every direction 🔥”
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Mouse – Mannequin
“Everything smashes together on ‘Mannequin’, squalls and explosions and fuzz, Superchunk and Dinosaur Jr. and Sonic Youth. Not a smooth edge in sight, and all the better for it 💣”
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Marmalade – Awkward
“Crisp and clean, ‘Awkward’ switches singers as smoothly as it switches up and down through its gears. When it all comes together in the chorus its foot hits the floor and it’s blue skies and empty roads all the way 🏎️”
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Chloe Dadd – keep it 2gether
“Chloe Dadd’s latest is as smooth as they come, sparkles on silk. As always, these are deep waters, but on the surface it’s as still as glass ✨”