Selected Releases: Monday 28 April

Portishead
Third
MP3: We Carry On

The Fall
Imperial Wax Solvent
MP3: Alton Towers

Half Man Half Biscuit
CSI: Ambleside
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Madonna
Hard Candy
MP3: Give It To Me

Tindersticks
The Hungry Saw
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Cajun Dance Party
The Colourful Life
MP3: The Race

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The Roots
Rising Down
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Someone Still Loves
You Boris Yeltsin
Pershing!
MP3: Some Constellation
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.South
You Are Here
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Nalle
The Sirens Wave
MP3: First Eden Sank…

Nadja
Desire In Uneasiness
MP3: Disambiguation

Our Broken Garden
Lost Sailor
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It was obvious a few months ago that the record [...]

Fridays FTW #5

Ladytron - Runaway
Beating the pants of everything else this week is this absolute stompfest from the forthcoming ‘Tron LP, Velocifero. After a fair number of listens, this is the most immediate of the tracks, but as happened with Witching Hour, the best track may wait insidiously for months yet. Really looking forward to hearing this [...]

Aural Geography: Brighton

Our second stop on the Aural tour of the world brings us to the hometown of Blood Red Shoes, Brighton. A lovely town on the south coast of England, Brighton has a great recent history in music. Socially and politically, the town is quite liberal; promoting art, individuality and performance at every turn. Not only [...]

In Celebration of St George’s Day

Today England celebrates it’s national holiday, the traditional feast day of its patron saint George. You wouldn’t know it, for most this is simply a non-event. There’s no parade like Chinese New Year, no mass revelling like St Patricks, no national fervour like 4th July. The simple fact is, that most folk see being English [...]

Meltdown Festival Line-up Announced

Massive Attack today announced the line up for this year’s South Bank based Meltdown Festival. The Bristol trip-hop legends curate the festival running between 14 and 22 June. The festival each year give’s the chance for an established act to take over the entire South Bank site, totalling arond 21 acres, and present an arts [...]