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With infantry-style drumming and a strongly plucked cello, Timothy Blackman's Everyone Needs Something To Hold On To gallops out the gate astride 'A Dance,' a soaring piano and trumpet-lead instrumental that serves as a brief, but enticing march into an album that feels cinematically sunset-hued from beginning to end.The second song, 'I Can't Blame You,' smarts of lush, Nick Drake-ian sentiment and melody,...
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While I would love to hear a new full-length from this guy, this will do for now. Very happy
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There’s a hell of a lot of history in Cleared’s music. When you hear Steven Hess’s uncluttered drumbeats looming over Michael Vallera’s churning guitar, the instrumental passages of Joy Division and early Echo & The Bunnymen records come to mind. When they shift from one stark groove to another with the abrupt angularity of a robot turning a right angle, you have to...
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Shlohmo - 'wen uuu'
"Shlohmo is still working with the somewhat lo-fi, quiet, cool and releaxed set of sounds that he has been. But he's changing his music style up a little bit with these three tracks, with the choppy beats and pitch-shifted vocals. The tracks here resemble the sound of future-garage more than anything"
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Loma Prieta - 'Fly By Night'
Sporting one of the best lineups in recent memory, Auckland's Laneway Festival was one to watch in 2012, and it didn't disappoint. Perfect weather, great sound and what was basically a dream lineup of 2011's most important new bands. There were a few niggly beer and food related issues (long queues, selling out of stuff etc) but even this couldn't dampen the spirit...
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Heems feat. Danny Brown & Mr. Muthafuckin' eXquire - 'You Have To Ride The Wave'
"The versatility is incredible and Heems proves himself to be just as versatile as the production itself. I actually think Heems shows himself off to be more versatile here than he did on the Das Racist album and mixtapes."
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The Gracious Deviants are a Wellington duo who play luscious acoustic folk, and their new EP is entitled Blue Skies & Thunderclouds. Consisting of two old friends, Pete Edge and Darrel Greaney who both sing and play acoustic guitar, leading to beautiful dual melodies and the type of complex dual rhythm guitar you'd expect from a folk duo.
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The amount of chatter, debate and emotion that has been uttered in relation to the 22 year old James Blake typifies a few things. The UK music industry's hype culture perhaps? And then of course, the backlash to the hype. It is an inevitable occupational hazard for many talented individuals.The animation surrounding James Blake is warranted.
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