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Snapped Ankles in the urban forest with their third LP
New album: An excellent third LP by the east London be-leafed electro-krautrock-dance-pop band bursts with vigour and ideas, themed and fuelled by a troubled world coming out of lockdown in this folllow-up to their last, Stunning Luxury
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Halsey
A mixture of dark and light, hope and hopelessness decorate this week’s huge roundup of releases across many genres, including oddities and eccentricities, passions and playfulness from Emimen to Ivor Cutler, Halsey to Keeley Forsyth
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FKA twigs
The second part of this year’s LP favourites again includes several superb female artists. Also check out the first part published yesterday
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From The Flaming Lip’s an immersive art exhibition to accompany their new album, King’s Mouth.
A catchup of recent releases includes The Flaming Lips going concept again with with their best for years, Silver Jews frontman David Berman’s new band, innovations from IDER, Blood Orange and Banks and an all-star Frightened Rabbit tribute
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Clinic: summoning wonderfully woozy images of 1970s showbiz
Wonderfully otherworldly and woozy work is a theme this week, especially from Liverpool’s fabulous Clinic and choral groundbreaking brilliance from Holly Herndon, alongside a variety of other oddities including Mac Demarco
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LUMP: Laura Marling and Mike Lindsay, inspired by the hairy one
This week we lavish you with a bumper crop of top-quality LPs: ethereal beauty in a Laura Marling collaboration, Father John Misty parodying narcissism, brilliant Brooklyn punk band Bodega, blues funk from Warmduscher, and superb solo female work by Neko Case and Natalie Prass
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