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After two decades’ revelling in the possibilities of bleak heaviness, The Body return with dub-infused bangers for a ...

A labour of love from Soundway records compiling funky hits from Malaysia, Indonesia, the Philippines and more ...

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Violent Femmes’ self-titled debut is one of the most essential American indie rock records of the early 80s, but it’s not the only album by the band you must have in your collection, argues Cal Cashin ...

Forty-five years after it was first released, Joseph Burnett returns to Young's fifth solo record, an album that marked an angered transition from Harvest, bolstered by some of his bleakest and ...

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The Experience of Ecstasy, philiosopher Simon Critchley explains why the only proof of animism he knows is music ...

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